Agreed. Found Yuvraaj's rhythm tracks to be the weakest link in the album. He is also using synth tabla sounds, which is fine by me, but again underscores the diminished use of ethnic percussion in recent works, with exceptions like Khwaja and Azeem from JA.
It could be a deliberate attempt by ARR to move away from rhythm based songs to more melody oriented numbers, which I feel has been the strongest trend by ARR recently. His songs this year have been extremely melodious, the most meloodious music out of anyone in India, and for that, I am extremely happy. His melodies and mid range arrangements are just mindblowing, even at the sacrifice of his rhythm tracks, which is just relative to his own previous work. --- In [email protected], Syed Quadri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I fully agree on the poster's comments. May be it is due to relocation of his lieutenants , such as Siva mani, Naveen and host of other musicians already made Mumbai as their homes. Even junior sound engineers like Aditya Modi relocated to Mumbai. Other factors could be immense work load , pressure of deadlines ( Although AR never turn in the work on time...watch the recent interview hosted by NDTV and the trio was playing blame game in front of millions of audience , that Ghai was expecting a western classical in two months and AR was due to submit the project for shoot last July ,Gulzar and Ghai belong to two different schools of thought, etc ,etc ). > it is a fact that , one person can not do things single handed. Gone are the days when MDs like Naushad, Madan mohan , Ilyaraja RDB used to oversee all the departments. This is the era where Md's like SEL, VS share their work load as a team and live in tinsel town, stay in touch with the best of people in the industry for PR work. whereby these smart marketing manipulators create negative publicity for AR and happily belonging to the camps controlling the industry. > > --- On Thu, 11/6/08, subhadip_jis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: subhadip_jis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [arr] Do U find those creative percussions missing nowadays in Sir's arrangement? > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 1:11 PM > > > > > > > Guys, I want to share my views on this topic. I was listening to > Rahman Sir's classic compositions from Iruvar-Alaypayithey -Bombay, > also "Thiruda Thiruda" numbers & "FIRE" BGMs. > I think the usual charm of tight percussion units in ARR's songs is no > longer existing nowadays. The kind of minute details we used to get in > every beat of it, may it be "humma humma" or "Thee Thee" or a semi- > classical number like "Radha kaise na jale..." is somewhere missing > nowadays. Even this creative percussion were heard in RDB, (Remember > the bike chasing or killing of minister scene !!!!), also a bit of it > in Jodha Akbar (although he relied upon synthesized beats in "Jashn > Bahara"). > Does it mean Rahman Sir doesn't involve himself much in every section > of a song, rather leave it to young bloods like Krishna Chetan? At > least I personally felt lack of innovative percussion (using unusual > beats & instruments) in last couple of films like "Jaane > Tu..", "Sakkarakatti" , "ADA" & even in "Yuvraj". In "Yuvraj" also he > uses a lot of techno stuffs as backing beats, which just supports the > song by keeping the rhythm but doesn't increase it's beauty. Well > composed numbers like "Tu hi meri dost" or "Manmohini" or "Dil ka > rishta" has a very repeatative & fully synthesized beat which cud have > been taken care of I think, a full orchestral sound is going side by > side (just think of "Thiruda Thiruda") > > Whats ur opinion ???????? >
