Friday, August 27, 2010

Let the ranjha behne de

OK, now this is a bit late for me to appreciate these two songs. Ranjha ranjha and behne de from Raavan.
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I somehow liked the rawness of rekha bharadwaj in this Ranjha ranjha …somehow dominating the song (sorry Javed ali). Even in this rawness there are layers of songs that seem to hypnotize you and take to greater hights in the song, lovely psychedelic circles.. I have never liked AR reheman’s music much. No offence here. But I always found him giving a bit repetitive music…he is good, no doubt about it. But you can almost understand that its him who has given the music. A signature kind of music. Most singer’s voice seem to drown their voice in the music, with a few exceptions of course, like Asha Bhosle, SP bal subramanyam and now Rekha bharadwaj…this time however I found AR Rehman’s music more subtle…like complementing the background very well at the same time losing a bit of its repeatitiveness, using some sudden different piece somewhere…leaving you for jolly surprises. And that’s also what I experienced when I heard behne de…is the singer continuously singing… “behne de bhene de …behne de gharghor ghata…”…where ranjha ranjha hypnotizes you, behne de takes music and voice to greater heights…I don’t know about you, but the feeling of virtual swimming in cool waters …such kind of feeling comes over when you hear this song…the waters of music, lyrics and voice…touching to the core…with some boom and bong…punching the commas in music at regular intervals. Good the chorus is not much as it would have lost the effect one has…the singing continues in one string continiously…and where there are pauses…there are pieces of music …with not many instruments…with that bong still going on in between…and with sudden different but accordant bits of music…it surely makes a piece of song great to hear till the cassette goes kaput J