WAT CLD GET BETTER....? ITS A DEADLY COMBO TO THE CORE....! SEMA SAVADI...SARAVEDI.... CANT WAIT FOR OUR TAMIL RAAVANAN....
HARDCORE RAHMANIAC TILL DA VERY END!!! --- On Sat, 24/4/10, AJ <[email protected]> wrote: From: AJ <[email protected]> Subject: [arr] Re: Raavan - Superb!!! Excellent!! Unbelievable! To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 24 April, 2010, 9:47 AM Rawat, So great to see your pos review! I think you've been quite critical of ARR's albums in Hindi of late, but to see you so enthralled with Raavan says a lot! Congrats on your enjoyment!!! --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, V S Rawat <vsra...@... > wrote: > > 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 >
