| Warriors of Heaven and Earth |
[10 Feb 2004|10:24am] |
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Probably for the first time in Indian history, we see an Indian musician composing soundtrack for an international movie. Put simply, A R Rahman is a phenomenon. Having successfully staked his claim as India's greatest ambassador in the world of music, Rahman has now sold well in excess of 100 million albums worldwide. To put that in perspective, that's as many albums as Madonna and Britney Spears put together and it places him firmly in Michael Jackson territory, an artist, incidentally, that Rahman has composed and performed with: Jackson was recently photographed wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with a picture of Rahman and the message "Salute To You". Tandemically, glancing at the amount of prizes his extraordinary talent has garnered you'd be forgiven for thinking his house was entirely made up of shelves just to showcase them.A R Rahman already rocked with Bombay Dreams, and apart from the very famous LOTR stage version soundtrack, he has composed an absolute beauty of an album, called "Warriors of Heaven and Earth". Its a Chinese movie, so the spiritual tinge in Rahman's music relates with it to perfection
The song Warriors in Peace is a soothing melody, the hindi version of the song is also nice. The use of percussions with a light vocal and a soothingly feeble use of Tabla adds to the melody of this beauty. The use of marching tunes and fast beats at the end supports the theme and lycrics of the song. And the use of plain strings in "The Monk and The Miracle" is just magical.
I just loved this album. Its mysterious, spiritual, enigmatic, melodious and purely Indian
 Pranshu
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