Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire
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Composer: A.R.Rahman
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2008-12-21
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
  1. O... Saya - Performed by A R Rahman & M.I.A.
  2. Riots - A R Rahman
  3. Mausam & Escape - A R Rahman
  4. Paper Planes - M.I.A.
  5. Paper Planes DFA REMIX - M.I.A.
  6. Ringa Ringa - A R Rahman featuring Alka Yagnik & Ila Arun
  7. Liquid Dance - A R Rahman featuring Palakkad Sriram & Madhumitha
  8. Latika's Theme - A R Rahman featuring Suzanne
  9. Aaj Ki Raat - Sonu Nigam, Mahalaxmi Lyer & Alisha Chinoi
  10. Millionaire - A R Rahman featuring Madhumitha
  11. Gangsta Blues - A R Rahman featuring BlaaZe & Tanvi Shah
  12. Dreams on Fire - A R Rahman featuring Suzzanne
  13. Jai Ho - A R Rahman featuring Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah & Mahalaxmi Iyer

Free Music Notes for Slumdog Millionaire

Free Music Review: World Beat Music Gone Mainstream In A Good Way!
Hit: 4 Stars

World Beat Music Gone Mainstream In A Good Way! ... Track #1. Pounding percussion - "recycled" or otherwise - along with atmospheric vocals. Think: BLUE MAN GROUP or STOMP or CONCUSSION ENSEMBLE with techno keyboards, munchkin background vocals, and great, haunting, lead vocals contra punted by female vocal rapping on beat! ... Track #2. Good groove. Acoustic, tribal percussion embedded with electric, techno synthesizer sounds. Ambient, Native-American, live, background vocals. ... Track #3. Ambient, acoustic, steel-string guitar, Indian sitars, Indian tablas, and acoustic percussion alongside synthesized orchestral swaths of mighty waves of sound that wash over your sonic senses with persuasive power, backed-up by atmospheric female vocals blended into the mix way off in the background. Jews harp on steroids, indeed! ... Track #4. It kind of sounds like what Madonna would sound like if she adopted Mick Jagger's accent and went world-beat with Pink Floyd's chorus of kids from "THE WALL." ... Track #5. Eubie Blake boogie-woogie piano playing - on ecstasy! Cool bass line. Herbie Hancock-like synth sounds ala "HEADHUNTERS" era. Great groove! More cool, rap-like vocals that don't overpower the music but melt into it in a gestalt of global-trekking, sonic adventurism. ... Track #6. Okay, we all know that traditional, Indian music is real raga-like and moksha-mantra-like. But combine that with modern, digital sampling, groove / loop-making, and techno beat production, and you create a whole `nother hybrid of a sound wave - especially when the wailing vocals are combined with hip hop lyrical sensibilities! You got it? ... You will! ... Track #7. Dorothy, Ravi Shankar is no longer in Kansas, either! Walter and Wendy Carlos have come over for dinner, and they have both dropped 500 micrograms of pure, Sandoz lysergic acid diethylamide-25. You dig? ... Jeff Lynn is also there with his Electric Light Orchestral Maneuvers in the Darkness of the dawn. ... GROK! ... Track #8. Very beautiful and moving! Female vocal caresses your heart and soothes your soul, while ambient, sonic sound waves of shimmering melodies and rhythms massage your lower chakras. Nice acoustic guitar, too. Subliminal bass. Atmospheric synthesizer sounds of Indian instruments mix-in with tamboura and sarod. ... Track #9. Feel the heat / beat, and stomp your feet down on the 1 and the 3, while you clap your hands together on the 2 and the 4, along to the techno, world-beat hybrid of primitive grooves sped-up a notch by modern electronic recording machinery. It's a digital new age. It's a new world order of maximum beats per second exponentially magnified by sub-woofer power amps set to the max! ... Track #10. The same goes for this one - only even faster! ... Imagine Donald Duck dancing under the influence of Coca-Cola before they were forced to change their ingredients formula by the law! You get the picture. ... Track #11. Sexy. Hip-hoppy. Wordy. Other-worldly. Sultry. Hollywoody. ... A bit boring, maybe? Maybe not?! ... Track #12. Acoustic guitar. Simple percussion. Choral vocals. Ambient keyboards. Gentle, swaying beat. Beautiful, female, lead singing. ... Track #13. Lots of talking. Lots of singing. Jubilant. Joyous. Anthemic. Epilogic. Very Eastern. Very orchestral. ... The beat goes on! ... YOWZA! - George Koumantzelis / The Aeolian Kid

Slumdog Millionaire Poster

In composing the music for acclaimed director Danny Boyle's intoxicating new film Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman has conjured the sound of a city, fusing the frenetic scramble of daily life in Mumbai, India into beautiful fugues that ride upon the dust clouds kicked up by its everyday people.

From the movie's first frames --- with children racing through alleyways, knocking over merchants and pottery, police kicking loose clay roof tiles, disrupted birds fluttering from gutters -- we hear the sound of their commotion made manifest in "O... Saya." It's a rumbling hybrid of Bollywood and hip-hop, a brand new collaboration between Rahman and M.I.A. It's the kind of cinematic moment where image and sound coexist. And that's only the first five minutes.

Filmed in the streets and slums of Mumbai, India, Boyle needed just the right music to compliment the film's cinema verit? urban realism. He turned to internationally renowned composer A.R. Rahman (a huge star in South Asia--selling more than 100 million albums worldwide and 200 million cassettes--Rahman is one of the world's top 25 all-time top selling recording artists.) The film's score is central to the propulsive modern grit that pervades the story, but is also a nod to classic Bollywood productions where the music is front and center. And loud. Says Rahman, "We wanted it edgy, upfront. Danny wanted it loud."

M.I.A.'s appreciation for Bollywood music led her to record much of last year's Kala inside A.R. Rahman's studio in India, although the two had never worked together until now. Referring to him in URB magazine as "the Indian Timbaland," M.I.A. obviously jumped at the chance to work on "O... Saya" with the famed composer. Rahman says, "She's a real powerhouse. Somebody played me her CD and I thought, `Who is this girl? She came here and knew all my work, had followed my work for ages. I said, `Cut the crap, this "my idol" crap. You have to teach me.'"

M.I.A. crops up again, later in the film, with the remix of her worldwide hit "Paper Planes" seemingly made for Slumdog, as the lyrics pronounce, "Sometimes I feel like sitting on trains..." while a light blue locomotive chugs and hurls its way through India, young boys perched up top in the sepia sunlight scoping out for a scrap of food.

Other songs on the soundtrack include "Gangsta Blues," featuring hip-hop artist BlaaZe, which flutters with the rhythms of a film projector, capturing a bit of the madness of crowds as they disperse in a thousand directions to escape the claustrophobia of back alleys. And nothing quite prepares you for the triumphant climax, the overarching ode to joy that is "Jai Ho," closing out the film in a rousing sing-a-long that's had film audiences burst into spontaneous applause. As Rahman told Variety, "The energy of the film takes you through a roller coaster, and that's one of the main inspirations for the whole music."

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