Music I

The first of many rants about music you can expect here..

I am currently listening to Comptine d'Un Autre Été by Yann Tiersen for the 7th consecutive time. It's part of the score from the movie 'Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain' ( Amelie to you and me ) and jointly the best piano track I have ever heard in almost 21 years. ( The other one is a track in my computer called Piano Concerto 26 by Mozart ) .

Real music is undescribeable really. By real music I mean real music, not the sort you get to hear in recently released Bollywood movies or VH1's "Hip Hop Hustle". To me good music has to have the ability to make you forget anything else is going on around you. That's it..

I learn sitar, but Piano has to be my most favourite instrument after the Sitar. Any good pianist can take you away to somewhere else altogether. People like Yanni, Richard Clayderman, Robert Miles are all really really good but what sets apart the track I'm listening to from those by Yanni and Clayderman is the fact that no other instruments were used in the song. I listened to that track 14 times in a row once, 9 times now.. Most people would fall asleep listening to the same song over and over again, but that's the basic difference between my type of music and theirs.

There have been many phases in the last couple of years, phases lasting two or three weeks when I used to hear a single song at least once every day and at most 5-6 times consecutively at a go. Does this happen to everyone? For example, for the past two-three weeks I have been listening, without fail, to a 5 and a half minute piece by Ustad Imrat Khan ( in which he plays alaap in Surbahar in Raga Yaman Kalyan ). After watching American Beauty there was a phase when I listened to the track "Arose" about 50 times in 2 weeks. There She Goes by Sixpence None The Richer, True Love Waits ( piano version ) by Christopher O'Riley, the Amelie track, the Mozart track, a piece of music that played in the process of installing the Rogue Spear game, Trade Winds by Craig Chaquico ( guitar piece ) .. I could go on and on.. have all been part of such 'phases'.

I have been successful in changing many of my friends' taste in music by nagging them continuously to listen to my favourite stuff and it seems to have worked, cos Smart Primate apparently listened to the Amelie track 30 times today :P. Lots of other examples are there but this is getting boring, I stop here. More when I think of interesting stuff to write.

Statistics : Music I have listened to while writing this post :

Comptine d'Un Autre Été by Yann Tiersen x10
Arose by Thomas Newman x11
Piano Concerto 26, Mozart x3
Trade Winds by Craig Chaquico x3
Piano Concerto 21 in C Major by Richard Clayderman x1