Coke Studio Season 9| BTS| Sadaa| Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Coke Studio Season 9| Episode 5| BTS
Music Directed by Shani Arshad
Produced by Strings

[prabhukedarshan]

Sadaa is a delight to classical aficionados and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan makes sure he displays all the text-book classical nuances in a single performance! Be it sargams, taans, a tarana, subtle harkats, alaaps and a beautiful jugal-bandi with the dhol throughout as he synchs to its beat!

The arrangement is quite contemporary with the use of bass, guitars and drums throughout along with the dhol. Strings section show up during interludes and during the antara. There is also a brief sitar portion towards the end. So overall a diverse arrangement which needs to be appreciated carefully underneath Rahat's powerful rendition!

Melodically the composition (originally created by Rahat himself) has beautifully used 'komal ga' and 'komal ni' throughout making me guess that it's from Kaafi thaat in terms of the raag. What is also noteworthy in the arrangement is the creative use of of percussions and nice experimentation with beat time-signatures (Shani Arshad, the composer also mentions this in the BTS video).

Maybe not the kind of song that I can listen on loop anytime of the day, but this will definitely go into my classical-fusion playlist for frequent hearings :-)

[nzrsiddiqui]

Why the heck Shani talking about different parts like i am excited about this part, this is the reason this song looks disjointed, and consists of many different parts and not as a one whole, mix and match type. Feel sorry for this, could have been much better.

[AWKhan-lhbl]

rahat fateh ali khan ho to song acha na ho