![]() ![]() Rahman has been substantially responsible for the way Hindi music has opened up to different kinds of female voices, but I think he can misstep sometimes with their upper registers in a way he doesn’t usually do with male singers. Her voice is enchanting, as always, but somewhat subdued by lugubrious percussion, and a far cry from the last song she sang for Rahman, the sparkling Katiya Karun in Rockstar. There is something less exciting about the arrangements on Heer, sung by Harshdeep Kaur. The opening song, Challa, is remarkable not so much for folk singer Rabbi Shergill’s voice, but for its guitar track, which gives it so much room to breathe and grow. The bass lines, Rahman’s habitual first responders, are in full bloom. This is an album made for strings-guitars, violins, and cellos. The songs utilize an array of voices and instruments, all of which are carefully controlled, pleasantly surprising and generally fall brilliantly on the ear. It gives us several things that we can enjoy in a detached, admiring way, but perhaps just one or two songs which demand immediate love.Īlmost everything about the music of Jab Tak Hai Jaan is virtuoso. ![]() Not a failure like Blue and not a small miracle like Jaane Tu. But now that the music of Jab Tak Hai Jaan is out, and the customary fortnight that it takes for Rahman’s music to steep in listeners’ minds has passed, early suspicions are that this is a minor Rahman soundtrack. ![]()
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