This time, i avoid all political talk and get to talking about a sound track of a tamil film song that is in my opinion one of the most underrated songs of AR Rahman. This song is from the film Parthale paravasam and the song is titled 'Adhisaya Thirumanam'.
One possible reason for this song's brilliance to have been generally overlooked is certainly the inane lyrics provided by Kaviarasu Vairamuthu.
I won't try to analyze the melody of the song because the rhythm sections here are enough to blow your mind.
The song starts off on a khanda chapu rhythm(female chorus) and soon shifts to mishra chapu(male chorus)-but totally seamlessly. When the male chorus goes 'thirumanam oru daayakattam...' the tonalities are worth listening to-one set of male voices keep at the alto level while the other set of voices steadily 'climbs up' to that level.
As the male chorus again starts off another motif, it does so this time in rupakam! This song is like a who's who of possible time signatures!
During the charanam, the line is at a relaxed ata talam followed by chord sections playing with a time interval of 12 beats, and as ARR does this twice, he manages to put it in a nice 4/4 rhythm. The khanda chapu returns to complete the charanam and the mishra chapu lines return again to get back to the anupallavi. After the second charanam, ARR suspends the rhythm section before the return to the anupallavi and as we savor the lack of percussions, he returns to the same time signature with an inverse khanda chapu!
And all this with a pretty decent melody line and a bassline that keeps dancing along with the rhythm scale(possibly synth programmed). It is astonishing that while he does all this his chord sections keep changing all the time! Hats off ARR!!