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Piano, ghatam, tabla - three to tango for Bollywood music

 

Arvinder Kaur (Press Trust of India)

 

New Delhi, April 18, 2006

 

"Using Sanskrit and vedic chants that are inspired by Raag Kafi and

Bhiravi blended in a modern way, Hubert says "my music has strong

classical roots with western style."

 

Bollywood music composers have long been fascinated by piano music.

But now a Franco American composer is combining piano with ghatam and

tabla to make what she calls "niche new age music for Hindi films".

 

"In the Hindi movies, there is a strong attraction for Piano. Whether

it is the old movies of the '60s or the recent classics like Parineeta.

 

AR Rahman has used it very beautifully in Yuva. All this shows that

there is lot of scope for experimentation with the piano," says Ariane

Gray Hubert, a Franco-American concernt painist, singer and composer.

 

Hubert, who recently gave a live Piano concert here titled "Piano

Rag(a) Time" accompanied by Ustad Akram Khan on Tabla and S Karthick

on Ghatam, feels such experimentation can produce the new age music

for Hindi movies.

 

Using Sanskrit and vedic chants that are inspired by Raag Kafi and

Bhiravi blended in a modern way, Hubert says "my music has strong

classical roots with western style."

 

Justifying her blending of the various instruments, Hubert, who speaks

Hindi, says "a different kind of music in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's

Black could appeal to both Indian and international audiences."

 

Her blending of western and Indian sacred music appears in the

compositions in her album "Beyond Classical World(s)". In the album,

she has also evolved a new vocal rap technique which joins raga

compositions like "Tamil Nadu" and "Khilona... Tillana" for piano,

voice and south Indian percussions.

 

"Piano is western in origin and has for long been used for comedy

music in Hollywood films and in French melodies. This makes me realise

that combining it with Indian classical instruments like ghatam and

table can create music which will gel very well with live stories in

Bollywood movies," says Hubert, who is already talking to various

music directors.

 

"In creating new type of music for Bollywood films, Piano can be

extensively used. If Adnan Sami could play classical music on

synthesiser, which was very well appreciated by people, piano could

also be blended with ghatam, tabla and many other instruments," feels

Dr Kamla Janardhanan, a music expert.

 

Exploring the "percussion aspect in piano the Indian way with the

tabla", can create an altogether new type of music, says Dr Janardhanan.

 

AC Tuli, a film critic says, "right from "Bhabhi" (1938) to

"Parineeta", Piano has been very popular with the music directors and

there is lot of scope for experimentation with this instrument."

 

"Earlier the general thinking was that you cannot play Indian ragas on

it, but of late, composers have proved it wrong. There is lot of scope

of further experimenting with this instrument of Italian origin," says

Tuli.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1677524,0011.htm

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