Thursday, June 02, 2011

sehgal blues

a fascinating composition from the upcoming delhi belly. composed by ram sampath and sung by chetan shashital (lyrics between them?). ram sampath is no less than a musical maestro - let's talk, in particular, was a superb album. chetan shashital I somewhat recall as an excellent mimicry artist - too little info on him on web. anyhow, the song has beautiful lyrics and succeeds hands down in recreating sehgal's intonation and gayaki.

duniya mein pyaar jab barse,
na jaanen dil ye kyun tarse.

begins off with tanpura, picks up to blues dominated by the distortion guitar.

is dil ko kaise samjhaoon,
pagal ko kaise main manaaoon.

naadaniyan jo tum karte,
ranjish mein hum bhi kyun marte.

is dard ki na hai dawayee,
majnu hai ya hai tu kasaayee.

jebon mein laakh guldaste,
kyu ek phool pe atke.

such an apt amalgamation of the sehgal and the blues genre. dil jalta hai from jogger's park is perhaps the only one which sets its foot into the combined genre. but this one is a leap ahead - amazing perfect sound!

update: found his interview. he is quite a curious kind and that shows. indeed, hope to hear more from him and more often.