Superb!!! Excellent!! Unbelievable! It is nothing that I could have expected from our man, but that is his espeiciality that he gives me exactly what I can't even think of, and it is working great. That's what makes him The composer and me The listener and his fan.
-- My fav is Behne De. In this the sounds are so deep and all-encompassing as if they are arriving from some other planet, drowning you from all sides. You don't realize whether it is something coming out of your speakers, or it is more likely live sounds coming from walls and roofs and floors. It has the mood that it could be the Taandav number. So motivating, so energetic. Even Lagaan's baar baar ha sounds like scout boy's bathroom song in comparison with it. The only thing lacking i feel is in voice. voice is slightly husky and is in a shorter range that doesn't do justice with the mood of the song which should have on higher pitch and wider range. Seems wrong choice of singer. Sukhwinder would have done miracle in this song with his voice range and all-out ways. Thok de Gilli seems situational so its effect will be seen with the visuals and storyline. sound arrangement is pleasantly heavy here also. Ranjha is interesting. Female voice goes miles ahead by that CHEWING of words that bring such a unique feel that male voice doesn't measure up. I wonder why this difference is kept? to match the screen accents of actor/ actresses? or is it the female voice who could come up with this chewing twisted voice and ARR retained it, and male voice remained flat without nuances. Seems wrong choice of male singer. Khili re is indeed soothing enough, but frankly, ARR has given many-many much better soft and sweet song. It slightly lacks in voice. Voice is not emotional enough, as was in Marudhani or in Chupke Se (Sathiya) or in Kal nahi tha jo wo hai aaj kya (vishwavidhata). And flow here is noticeably slow - may be in comparison with other fast tracked songs. btw, starting music and beats in Khili re made me wonder whether it is Ek Suraj nikla tha - dil se re song starting. Kata Kata also has similar vibrating sound but seems there are less instruments in Kata Kata, or may be there are one fast and one slow beat used repeatedly, so one can make out that it is sound from the speakers. tribal accent has been well rendered by female voice. Closing crescendo is lovely. Beera and Kata sound to have similar beats and style. If one hears both the songs back to back, it will be difficult to notice when one song ends and when other one starts. or may be, as we hear more, it becomes clear what differences they are having. Beera has less variety than Kata. -- lyrics are great and plentiful and meaningful. pronunciation also seem good enough here, that was my complain in many previous albums of our man that pronunciations were unclear or even wrong. Only in Thok de gilli, music somewhere becomes louder so drowning the voice and making it difficult to make out what is being said. Other songs have more clear spoken words. D6 has been fav of many, but that still had "predictability". Here is entirely unpredictable things in Raavan. It is so complex. -- Rawat
