Saturday, November 08, 2008

Is Accordion slowly getting back!

Last year, A.R.Rahman belted out an impressive melody "Ay Hairath-E-Aashiqi" from Guru which brought back an instrument now extinct in the current technoscape of film music - Accordion. Although the album credits did not mention who actually played it in the song, many believe that it was Rahman himself, because he personally picked it up from a music store in London (or Prague?). And he did play it well too.
Now, again, after a long time, i chanced upon another wonderful song with very good accordion work. The song, 'Muskuraa' from a new film called 'Dasvidaniyan', composed by singer Kailash Kher, reminded me of another exquisite composition, "Fallen from the Sky', from the film 'Once'. Although i cannot say that Kailash Kher copied it, because, to be fair, he did quite commendable job to the complete composition, I am sure that he got inspired from the song from Once. The similarity exists only in the initial lines, for few bars. But then, I must say, Kailesh belted out a very mature composition, simple melody and yet captivating, bringing back the glory of accordion which was once a regular instrument in Hindi Film Music, particularly by Shankar-Jaikishan duo. Listening to that instrument, aptly used in a melodious number calls for an applause. It rarely happens with current crop Hindi films, that a song catches my attention the very 1st time i hear it. This is just one among them. Kudos to Kailash, for this one.

5 comments:

Musically Me said...

Loved the new look on your blog and the posts too.....

Random Walker said...

the use of accordion for ai hairaten must also be attributed to Mani Ratnam I think... he must have wanted an unmistakable oldy feel... and ARR belted out this one

Aakarsh said...

musically me: Thanks a lot.

RW: that apart, what do you think about the song i posted here from Dasvidaniyan.

S Hegde said...

Rightly pointed out. The accordian in Indian music is synonymous with Shankar Jaikishan, the greatest and the most versatile composers to have graced the Indian music industry till date.

Ramesh V said...

ARR u r king of music....nice blog
telugu songs