He is good with technology so whichever part of the world we are in, we figure out the song and manage to collaborate.
He is good with technology so whichever part of the world we are in, we figure out the song and manage to collaborate.
He has a way of breaking the meter, it gets freshness into the song. It’s a challenge to write to songs like Rehna tu and Behka which are meandering and free-flowing. It allows you to write in a different structure.
He plays with spaces in a song, the space between the antaras. The music gets a live jamming quality about it. The way he lets the flute play in Rehna tu is magical, like being suspended in time.
He is like a weaver, a craftsman. He weaves a simple melody like a piece of cloth. Then like you adorn the cloth with embroidery, sequins, he embellishes the melody with layers, makes it intricate.
I have often told him that if I had known him earlier I would have made a song out of the Bombay theme. It’s an incredible use of Carnatic and Western classical score.
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