Its so tough to translate from Tamil to English. AR Aravind.... You are doing a good job... God Bless.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Aravind AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Here are this week's scans. Scroll down for translation. > > Flickr > W15 P01 > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aravind_am/3810401064/ > W15 P02 > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aravind_am/3810401640/ > W15 P03 > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aravind_am/3810402252/ > Mirror: PhotoBucket > W15 P01 <http://www.flickr.com/photos/aravind_am/3810401064/> > http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n260/aravind_am/W15P01.jpg > W15 P02 > http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n260/aravind_am/W15P02.jpg > W15 P03 > http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n260/aravind_am/W15P03.jpg > > > Week 15 > > The success of Rahman’s hindi debut, “Rangeela” opened new doors for him, > which he even hadn’t expected. Bollywood offers started flowing in, > including offers from big names like Shekar Kapoor, Meera Nair, Subhash > Ghai, Rajkumar Santoshi, Govind Nihlani, Deepa Mehta and Ashutosh Gowariker. > Rahman had too many offers to choose from! The Hindi media praised him by > saying he’s the true heir of RD Burman. Down South, in his hometown, he was > being praised as “Isai Puyal” and “Isai Arasan” (King of Music). > > > > He was surprised and happy that, world-renowned directors came down to his > house to work with him. He was elated about the wide range of music that he > could create for the different situations in the innovative screenplays by > these directors. > > > > Though he got enough Bollywood opportunities to settle down there, he > continued composing for lot of tamil films as well. Movies like ‘Indira’, > ‘Mr. Romeo’, ‘Love Birds’ and ‘Sangamam’ released during that time. Though > these movies didn’t fare well at the box office, the songs became tremendous > hits. The lilting melodies of ‘Thoda Thoda Malarndhadhenna’ and ‘Nila > Kaaigiradhu’ from Indira captured everyone’s hearts. For ‘Varagga > Nadhikkarai Oram’ (Sangamam) rendered by Shankar Mahadevan, Rahman had used > the Bengali folk style of music. ‘Mudhal Murai’ from the same movie won the > National award. For the song ‘No Problem’ from Love Birds, RAP music star > Apache Indian had sung for Rahman. > > > > Music fans noticed all the new stuff Rahman kept introducing in this music, > and were eagerly waiting for more from him. > > > > Post-modernism in music had brought about another change then – it no > longer became necessary for singers to have a sweet voice. The new view was > that every voice has its own beauty. In the west, singers like Bruce > Springsteen, Tina Turner, Richard Marcus, Bryan Adams and Bon Jovi were > giving super-hit numbers, though they didn’t have a “sweet” voice. Singer > Boy George was rocking musical shows with his androgynic voice and > appearance. To top it all, king of pop Michael Jackson also had a very > different voice, which wasn’t the usual “sweet” voice. > > > > Michael Jackson’s voice, which can be classified as ‘Soprano Falseto’ in > western music terminology, is one which sounds like a blend of male and > female voices. The truth is that no other voice can match this unique blend! > Rahman who was a fan of MJ, also had revolutionary ideas about voices of > singers. > > > > Rahman believes that a sweet voice is not a necessity for good music, and > any different voice will give its own touch to the song and elevate it. > Which is why, he keeps introducing new voices. The iron gates of film music > fortress opened up for fresh, young voices. > > > > Rahman started using the voices of variety of singers like Unni Krishnan, > Sujatha, Suresh Peters, Shankar Mahadevan, Swarnalatha, Hariharan, > Mahalakshmi Iyer, Chinmayee for many songs. Had the regular and familiar > singers sung these songs, they wouldn’t have sounded so different! > > > > Hindi composer Sandeep Chowta was at one point of time, working with > Rahman. He was being referred to as poor man’s Rahman, as he composes > similar to Rahman’s style of music. As Rahman became too busy to accept more > projects, directors and producers started queueing up in front of Sandeep > Chowta’s studio, with many of them requesting for music just like Rahman’s. > He acceded to those requests, and for a few films he did follow Rahman’s > style. But he couldn’t last long by imitating Rahman’s style, and stopped > doing that! > > > > “Rahman is Rahman. I tend to follow his style as I worked with him for > sometime. But, the fact is that the soul which is there in Rahman’s music is > definitely missing in mine. He’s a revolutionary in music. His chord > progressions are mind blowing. He doesn’t stop with plain traditional > aalaps, and keeps working on what more can be done. Comparing me with him is > not right!”, says Chowta. > > > > The way Rahman “weaves” his music was new, it was puzzling for the > bollywood composers. The usual process followed was this – composer composes > the tune, lyricists listens to it and writes the tune. Singers and musicians > perform at the recording studio and the song gets recorded. Rahman changed > everything! > > > > After the tune is ready, he creates a basic rhythm track for it, and makes > the singer sing several times over the rhythm track. Singer finishes his > work and leaves. The “concert” begins only after that! Just consider the > amount of hard work that goes in to creating the song after this. With just > two basic tracks – rhythm and voice – he needs to add layers, beautifying > it. He needs to adorn it with background pieces by instrumentalists, > recording them in pieces and adding them. He also needs to add effects using > the electronic synthesizers. Then comes the final mixing. > > > > When the final product comes out, even the singer can’t believe how he has > created magic out starting with the simple voice and rhythm tracks. All > singers working with Rahman would have surely had this great experience. > This is Rahman’s music style! > > > > (To be continued) > > > > Aravind > > ------------------------------ > > Rahmania show interviews: http://rahmania.4shared.com > ------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------ > Looking for local information? Find it on Yahoo! > Local<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_local_1/*http://in.local.yahoo.com/> > > > -- regards, Vithur
