The album opener by Free Blood, Never Hear Surf Music Again starts off with an interesting arrangement but then moves on to total pandemonium! If you fast forward that noisy one minute or so, things get mildly interesting again. In any case, whether or not you hear Surf music again, chances are you will listen to THIS music again. J And then enters The A R Rahman with Canyon. There is nothing much in the track, just a strings section with probably some keys in the background. A purely situational piece. But things start picking up with Liberation triad. The first one, Liberation Begins, is again a functional track with pretty much nothing apart from a guitar strumming on a plain loop. But Liberation In A Dream sees Rahman build on that plain loop to create a haunting track. And in Liberation ARR adds a lot more instruments, reaching a wonderful crescendo!
Acid Darbari is a sedate composition in raag Darbari. The continuum fingerboard and the strings section form a very heart-rending combo. The song has a very South-Indian feel though, complete with the shouting sounds in the background. Touch Of The Sun is another minimally orchestrated situational track, and hence would be better viewed than listened to as a track. RIP sounds quite like a requiem as it should, Harshdeep Kaur doing a brilliant job of complementing Rahman’s orchestration that gets superbly pacy towards the end. ARR’s final track, If I Rise comes in the form of a collaboration with Dido, the composer himself doing the vocals alongside the singer. The orchestration here is mesmerizingly serene, highlighted by the motif on what sounds again like the continuum fingerboard. Towards the end there is also a sweet cameo by the Gleehive Children’s Choir from Mumbai.
Of the remaining tracks, three are reworks of yesteryear classics and need no specific comments, wonderful as the originals were. Bill Withers’ 1977 hit Lovely Day, Esther Phillips’ If You Love Me (which was itself a cover of Edith Piaf’s 1950 hit Hymne à l’amour), Plastic Bertrand’s Ca Plane Pour Moi all sound beautiful. Vladimir Ashkenazy’s tribute to Chopin with his version of Nocturne No. 2 is as much an exhibition of Ashkenazy’s talent as it is of the composition’s beauty. The soundtrack ends with Sigur Ros rendering Festival. The nine minute long track starts off on a very un-Sigur Ros-ish note, before shifting gears halfway through to their typical style.
127 Hours surely won’t enjoy the popularity that Danny Boyle-AR Rahman’s Slumdog Millionaire did, but to me this soundtrack rates above Slumdog as it is such albums that show the class act that ARR truly is.
You can see the complete album credits here.
Music Aloud Rating – 8.75/10
Recommended Tracks – Acid Darbari ,Liberation, RIP, If I Rise, Festival
Text From musicaloud.com
All through my life i always had the option eithier to love or hate, I choose love and here I am ----ARR----
Saturday, November 20, 2010
127 Hours Full Album Credit
ALBUM CREDITS |
Starring : James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn |
Music Composed and Produced by : A. R. Rahman |
Produced by : Christian Colson and Danny Boyle |
Studio : Fox Searchlight, Pathe |
Directed by : Danny Boyle |
Label : Interscope Records |
Music Credits: Never Hear Surf Music Again Free Blood (John Pugh) Published by Rong Music ASCAP Courtesy of Rong Music 2007 Rong Music Lovely Day Bill Withers (Bill Withers/ Skip Scarborough) Published by Unichappell Music Inc (BMI) Golden Withers Music (ASCAP) Courtesy of Columbia Records By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing 1977 Sony Music Entertainment Chopin Nocturne No. 2 in E Flat, Op. 9 No. 2 Vladimir Ashkenazy Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited Under license from Universal Music Enterprises 1985 Decca Music Group Limited Ca Plane Pour Moi Plastic Bertrand (Francis Jean Deprijck/Yves Maurice Lacomblez) Published by Universal Music Publishing MGB Ltd. (SABAM/SACEM) Courtesy of AMC Records SA-NV By arrangement with The Licensing Partnership UK Ltd 1977 AMC Records SA-NV If You Love Me (Really Love Me) Esther Phillips Original French lyrics by Edith Piaf Adaptation by Geoffrey Parsons Music by Marguerite Monnot Published by Editions Raoul Breton (SACEM) Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film and TV Licensing 1964 Atlantic Recording Corporation Festival Sigur Ros (Jon Thor Birgisson/Orri Pall Dyrason/ Georg Holm/Kjartan Sveinsson) Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd (PRS) Courtesy of EMI Records Ltd. 2008 XL Recordings 2008 Sigur Ros under exclusive license to EMI Records Ltd. If I Rise Dido and A. R. Rahman Music by A. R. Rahman Lyrics by Dido Armstrong and Rollo Armstrong Published by Fox Film Music Corp. (BMI), KM Musiq Admin by Universal Music Publishing (BMI), Warner/Chappell Music Limited (PRS) A. R. Rahman performs courtesy of KM Musiq Dido performs courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Orchestral: Orchestrator and Orchestral Conductor: Matt Dunkley Orchestra Leader: Perry Montague-Mason Orchestral Conductor: Isobel Griffiths Orchestral Assistant: Lucy Whalley Original Score Mixer: Andy Richards Sound Engineering and Additional Programming: Viviane Chaix Recording Studios: KM Musiq Studios, Air Studios, Miloko Studios, Hear No Evil Recording Studio (London); Panchathan Record-Inn (Chennai) and Nirvana Studios (Mumbai) Choir: The Gleehive Children's Choir, Mumbai Choir recorded at: Octavious Studio, Mumbai Choir arranged by: Clinton Cerejo Choir supervised by: Dominique Cerejo Choir Editing: Premier Digital Mastering Studios, Mumbai Choir sound engineers: Aditya Modi, Nitish Kumar Sound Engineering and Additional Programming: Deepak P. A. Music and Score Assistant: Anne-Marie O'Sullivan Music co-ordinators: Samidurai and T. M. Faizuddin Featured Musicians: Ranjit Barot - Drums Sanjay Divecha, Joel Shearer - Guitars Karl Peters - Bass Pete Lockett - Percussion Vocalist: Harshdeep Kaur Soundtrack album mastered by: Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering, Hollywood, CA Album Engineers/Mixers: Viviane Chaix, Deepak P. A., K. J. Singh Original Film Score Published by Fox Film Music Corp. (BMI) Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Administrative Credits: Executive in Charge of Music for Twentieth Century Fox: Robert Kraft Music Supervised for Twentieth Century Fox: Amy Driscoll Business Affairs for Twentieth Century Fox: Tom Cavanaugh Music Production Coordinator: Rebecca Morellato Music Clearance: Ellen Ginsburg Music Consultant: Ian Neil Soundtrack Produced by: A. R. Rahman Soundtrack Executive Produced by: Danny Boyle Executive Producer for Interscope Records: Tony Seyler Business Affairs for Interscope Records: Marnie Nieves Marketing for Interscope Records: Ingrid Erickson Soundtrack Production: Gretchen Anderson Art Direction: Dina Hovsepian I want to thank Danny Boyle, Christian Colson and Fox Searchlight for making this bold film... Dido for lending her healing voice to "If I Rise". Want to thank my team in the UK and Mumbai for helping me complete the score... In record time... (Matt Dunkley, Viviane Chaix, Anne-Marie O'Sullivan, Ranjit Barot and his band, Joel Shearer, Aditya Modi and Clinton, John Warhurst, Jeanette Haley, Andy Richards) Thanks Sam Schwartz for your persistence... :) Thanks to my Spiritual teacher for his guidance... And above all to the Creator for blessing us with good things still! - A. R. Rahman Thank you: Alexander Beltran, Erin Bergers, Steve Berman, Simon Beaufoy, Jason Bentley, Kate Benay, Kathryn Braddick, Christian Colson, Benjamin M. Cook, Dennis Dennehy, Kathy Doherty, Dancemaster Todd Douglas, Allison Elbl, Ron Fair, Aaron Foreman, Jurge Grebner, Jeanette Haley, Paul Hatcher, Kerry Hickey, Rand Hoffman, Jimmy Lovine, Tomoko Itoki, Cary Jones, Dyana Kass, Robert Kelley, Gary Kelly, Martin Kierszenbaum, Diana LaPointe, Annick Lestabel, Jeffery Taylor Light, Julie Lockwood, Robert Minzer, Terry McBride, Diane McKain, Cathy Merenda, Bob Merlis, Ted Mico, Laura Netra, Amos Newman, Cindy Noriega, Anne-Marie O'Sullivan, Jo Ann Orgel, Deepak P. A., Edna Pletchetero, David Ponak, Greg Prink, Areli Quirarte, Aron Ralston, Carmen Rizzo, Ryan Rodriguez, Brenda Romano, Sam Schwartz, Jean-Marie Sohie, Chris Stephenson, Ryan Stockwell, Raquel Taylor, Roya Vakili, Jeanne Venton, Angela Vredenburg, Luke Wood, Ike Youssef, John Warhurst, Christine Wolff, Barbara Zamoyska |
All through my life i always had the option eithier to love or hate, I choose love and here I am ----ARR----
Friday, November 19, 2010
Guys do u love ENTHIRAN BGM??????
Remember the scene where the bad chitthi robo will kidnap sana from the wedding hall and then fight with cops........ and remember there will be a BGM in techno bit ........ Here you go click on below link for the MP3 file.... Enjoy guys
All through my life i always had the option either to love or hate, I choose love and here I am ----ARR----
ARR to perform @ Nobel Peace Prize Concert
It has been officially announced that our own AR Rahman will perform at the 17th Annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert on December 11 in Oslo, Norway.
The two-time Grammy and Academy Award winning artiste will join a star studded line-up of musicians that include Barry Manilow, Jamiroquai, India.Arie, Florence + The Machine, Herbie Hancock, Robyn, Elvis Costello and Colbie Caillat. Academy Award winning Actor Denzel Washington will host the event, which will be broadcast around the world following the Nobel Peace Prize Awards.
The performance comes at a time of international critical acclaim for AR Rahman’s score for the recently released Danny Boyle film 127 Hours. 127 Hours marks the second collaboration for ARR and Danny Boyle.
Currently AR Rahman is in the middle of his world tour and he will perform for the first time in South Africa this November. Rahman’s performance will be part of the 150th anniversary of Indian presence in the nation and caps off a national celebration of Indian culture in South Africa. The tour kicks off on November 20th at The Sun City Superbowl.
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