Sonu Nigam Contribution In Classical Music

CLASSICALLY MILD - A Great Album by Sonu Nigam

The album is Sonu Nigam's first official attempt at classical music. The music director is Deepak Pandit and the lyricist is late Ajay Jhingran. While it was the former's first collaboration with Sonu Nigam, Ajay Jhingran had received the UP Governor's Award for his first album, incidentally with Sonu Nigam, the Hindu devotional album Sanskaar. Santosh Mulekar helped Deepak Pandit in the music arrangement

Track list

Number	Song Title	Length	Description on album	Raag used
1	Sochta Hoon Main	7:21	Celestial magic / Moments of truth / Maya	Raag Sindh Bhairavi
2	Bheege Bheege	6:24	Drenched in Ecstasy	Raga Ahir Bhairav
3	Soona Soona	6:04	The Homecoming	Raag Des
4	Suratiya	5:21	Submission	Raag Holy Kaafi
5	Chalki Chalki	5:16	Moonlight Twirl	Mishr Sarang
6	Dhanya Dhanya	7:41	The Woman An Eternal Enigma / An Ode to the Woman	Raag Maand
7	Lamha Lamha	5:59	Lashna / Celebration	Raag Bilawal
8	Aai dil mat ro	6:41	Viraha / Memoirs of another day	Raag jog Kauns

1. Sochta Hoon Main
Sochta Hoon Main has beautiful lyrics and this really lovely fusion of jazz, blues and Indian instruments. Questions about life. Sonu Nigam says:

It has my favorite question to the Cosmos. Whenever I'm alone, whenever I'm pondering over life, these are the feelings, these are the kind of thoughts that come into my mind and I'm still wondering what the world is all about.

2. Bheege Bheege
It just personifies romance beauty and melody in a magical way. Odd music punctuated with melodious preludes and amazing transitions between notes.

3. Soona Soona
Enriched with beautiful and fine murkis and taans Sonu Nigam has made a statement. Sonu Nigam has Complete control over the vocals the rendering is flawless demonstrating amazing precision and mastery. The hard work shows in this one. A typical classical inspired fusion.
Sonu Nigam is a selft taught Musicain, he never trained as a classical singer, Sonu Nigam says Soona Soona is my tribute to the classical music that I could not learn.

4. Suratiya Matwari
This is melodious song it uses the Raag Kaafi, Sonu has mastered the nuances of music. Beautiful song.

5. Chhalki Chhalki
Another sweet melodious romantic number. The music and singing build up a perfect mood and one can visualize ambiance.

6. Dhanya Dhanya
This song is dedicated to women. It's a tribute to all the women we know, This song gives you a different image of womankind, There is something very strange about this song.

7. Lamha Lamha
It is a song on positivity. This song propagate positivity, goodness around us and how each moment can be looked upon as to be cherished by all of us. So if you hear the entire song, the arrangement and everything, you feel as if you've woken up-it's a song of awakening.

8. Ai Dil Mat Ro
The poetry in song by Ajay Jhingran is very good, The arrangement behind it, its all oriental. The song portrays a very specific loneliness, sad, nostalgic feeling. It essentially is a sad heartfelt expression of pain. This kind of music is quite rare.

Bawri Piya Ki (Thumri) Raag Darbari

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnTSYtr9Ng

Entitled Baawri Piya Ki, it is sung by Sonu Nigam who nails every note perfectly. Haunting, yet sensual, it is heavily influenced by classical Indian music, but with a slightly modern touch. For the most part, the song has a very slow, soft feel to it carried by the sounds of a tabla and piano, but it gradually builds up to a rather impressive orchestra in the middle. Aadesh Srivastava does an amazing job utilizing Nigam's vocal range to its fullest extent by having him provide both the lead and background vocals. Sameer impresses once again on this album with his lyrical ability - a song like this only confirms that when the need exists, he really has a handle over his art.