Mere Saason Mein

It was a long time that i composed and recorded a song completly since Pavan, Kanika deserted me to venture into their onsite opportunities. I was left with the option of just making an arrangement of music to basically give the feel of a song. My creative ideas did not seem to be coming through as before. I would end up in my music room after a tiring 18km ride from office.

Finally one day my thought flow was just gr8 and i came up with a catch line and recorded it immediately, used to play that piece as a loop for almost a week.

The feel of the song was such that, i wanted to give it a 80's pop song touch. I was too exited about this song and i almost finished prelude and the 1st interlude. Now i was stuck in no mans land. Started thinking where do i take this sample bit of my music from here to make it a complete song.

It was just a co-incidence that Adarsh texted me one day saying tat "i am looking forward to make a song with the legendary Prathap, maga". I immediately told him we could work on a song anytime.....I surprised him the next day with the sample bit that i had composed.
He was almost addicted to the arrangements i had made and was too very eager to make a tune and write lyrics for it. Adarsh and Swastika (Adarsh's wud be ;-) ) came to my place to Jam on Feb 24th. We composed a tune as Adarsh wrote the lyrics humming the tune and the title of the song 'Mere Saason Mein' was born. Started at around 3:00 and by 6:00 we realised the complete tune is done. Now that the Lyrics and Tune was in place, i suggested Adarsh that we record the song sometime later..(just wanted him to sink into the song and get the feel completly). The next week turned out to be a few weeks and it was time that we really force ourselves out of the corporate world and spend time only for music just for a day.

Pannu, Kanika(She was just back in town and waiting to JAM) reached my place much early to know what exactly is slated for the rest of the day. Adarsh and Swastika were really held up and finally made to my place by noon. We started recording Adarsh's vocals..Now it was a totally new experience recording Adarsh's voice and to be frank he was really good at it. He was note to note perfect and the number of re-takes were less to what i had expected. Then Pannu got his act of getting the harmony parts for some places in the song. Finally the complete voice dump for the song was done and the only think left was mixing and mastering the song. After the final mix was done the song sounded just gr8 and everyone of you liked it more than we did.

Its been a while that we recorded this song, but till date sometimes this song plays in a loop in my cell phone,laptop, home PC.....Adarsh's Gtalk caption still says 'mere saason mein'. We both Text each other many times saying 'Mere saason mein, wat a song maga'.....

So thats how the song Mere Saason Mein saw the light of this world and what an experience it was :-)

Check out the JAM version of Mere Saason Mein....I assume most of you have the track Mere Saason Mein..

Finally i decide to write about the precious moments of my life that is filled with MUSIC..

Its been a long wait for me to have a blog that explains the entire process i went through in completly creating a song. Its really worth to look back the enitre work done on a song once it is complete.
Here in my blog you would find all the information about the songs i compose and offcourse lots of things about my idol A R Rahman.
Cheers to Life,
Prathap.