Ready for another magical journey?. We start this chapter with a Mighty magic song, I am sure it never fails to move one’s heart.
Lukka chuppi From Rang De Basanti. This song is about a mother mourning for her son and asking him to come back. it already has a melancholy set to it, Do we need more to weep?. Yes because Rahmanji made a pact with himself that he would like to make us all cry when the song ends. He achieved it too.
For all my post earlier, I took a small clippings of a song and exhibited its specialty. But this song I don’t know which part to leave which one to take. So I am gonna take you one by one and in the end I humbly request you to listen to the whole song after reading this (keeping in mind the discussed aspects).
It starts with the slow solo of Lata Mangeshkar, Rahman and predominantly just the guitar with few finger picking notes here and there. So look out for guitar and Lataji voice.
Then the orchestration joins when Rahman sings with his awesome voice, accompanying the already existing guitar. There is very subtle hint of harmonium, very subtle which is masked though by Rahman’s emotion filled voice.
After the first Pallavi/Stanza, joins the Tabla and Harmonium adding totally different dynamics to the song (guitar and orchestration is still being played in the background, but Tabla is so astounding, its as if somebody is sitting inside your ears and playing it for you).
Its a Rahman song, of course with the half song over now, there should already be a flutist employed for the song. Yes we are definitely not disappointed. A beautiful flute music falls into the interlude.
Now the progression of the song starts with a extremely beautiful orchestration in the background and all of a sudden, there is huge transformation with Rahman rendering lines in high pitch voice. Wait for the magic from 00:26, let me know if you had Goosebumps.
And the violin accompanies the whole thing so beautifully it adds so much richness to the song that it deserves a standing ovation.
And then an amazing sargam, Lataji and Rahman singing swaram with tabla, guitar and flute, orchestration again. Its as if, all the musical elements used throughout in the song are coming together to give a farewell to the song itself. Its pure Wizardry.
Now I request you to read once this and listen to the full song. Its a six and half minutes soul filling journey. Loop it if you can and forget everything.
So Don’t you feel musically full filled?
I would love to write more but, I think it would be overwhelming. This composition deserves a single chapter all for itself.
And I have mentioned a unique song Anuradha Shriram voice in the first episode (https://spiritofthepheonix.com/2019/09/06/magical-world-of-rahman-music-1/). Have you found out? Comment below if you have an idea.
See you in Next episode my music buddies 🙂
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