I was coming back from the B'lore airport last night and the playlist switched songs from an old composition (Sridhar times) to the most recent ones Blue, Pulli etc...and I felt exactly the same!! Many of the recent compositions are becoming noisy and needless extra techno-sounds - the balancing of instruments, layers is only visible in the melody oriented songs. That way Couples Retreat is far superior than some of the recent albums.
I guess ARR is in a major experimenting mode these days - not just with his compositions but also with his entire team. But the gaps are well filled in by Amit, Anandh and Mithoon...! A neutral and unbiased view of bulk of the songs of films like Shivaji, Blue or Raavan (and would add Pulli as well) from any of us fans is really tough...by Rahman standards these are to say the least average compositions compared to Delhi 6, VTV, Pudhiya Mugam, Dil Se, Taal, Rangeela, Duet - the old time compositions! ciao / Gopal --- On Sat, 24/7/10, kishore parayath <[email protected]> wrote: From: kishore parayath <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [arr] ABSENCE of H SRIDHAR hurting ARR albums? To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 24 July, 2010, 10:36 PM It's ok..that was understood bro.. On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Jafar K <gentlej...@yahoo. co.in> wrote: Sorry... I mean after Delhi 6. From: Jafar K <gentlej...@yahoo. co.in> To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Sat, 24 July, 2010 12:55:29 AM Subject: Re: [arr] ABSENCE of H SRIDHAR hurting ARR albums? Agreed. Actually I feel some tracks are noisy Delhi 6 (except VTV) From: kishore parayath <kishore.parayath@ gmail.com> To: arrahmanfans <arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com> Sent: Fri, 23 July, 2010 6:15:23 PM Subject: [arr] ABSENCE of H SRIDHAR hurting ARR albums? Komaram Puli songs....esp. .peppy ones Maham Maye juz amazing But, the ABSENCE of H SRIDHAR is really hurting ARR soundtracks. .. See, the AMAZING intro piece in this song...Juz imagine, how it would have been if H Sridhar was there.... ARR's old film Tehzeeb, had a couple of songs, of this kind.. But , u can feel the amazing difference !!!!!!
