Music composer A R Rahman turned 43 on Tuesday but his birthday celebrations were relatively low profile.
"My birthday this time is very low profile because it's Muharram-so for us it's 10 days of mourning-so it's vegetarian and very low profile," says Rahman. But his professional life is all full of celebrations. Rahman's Gloden Globe nominated soundtrack of *Slumdog Millionaire* was released in Mumbai on Tuesday evening but its plagiarised versions were available on the internet much before that. "I can't talk about piracy and I don't want to. It's a moral thing within you, I can't teach morals to you, it's a conscience thing-if you want to support a musician then get the music from shops," says Rahman. Rahman said this at the release of his new album *Connections* in Chennai on Tuesday and what makes this album special is the fact that it is available on cellphones only. "Mobile phone is a very convenient device to listen to music, you can just carry that alone. You don't have to be cluttered with other devices - it's convenient to listen to whenever you want to - so I thought it was a good idea to create content for this," adds Rahman. "The first track I did was probably a drum groove for *Jiya-sa-jiya* then * Blaaze* had this idea of the Kural thing. Then there's one based on Rajasthani folk music-it's called a mosquito. There's another track called *Mylapore blues* - what if you play jazz in *Mylapore* - how will it sound - we just enjoyed doing this album," Rahman explains talking about his new album. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/rahmans-new-album-tracks-only-available-on-mobiles/82162-8.html -- regards, Vithur
