Kachha Dhaaga Options

[unni]

I thought I should share with you, for a change, some instrumental pieces. I am starting off with 3 pieces of Fusion Music. Hope it appeals to you. Would welcome some feedback.

Here's track 1.

Cheers!

[extenok]

I can seem to grasp the idea that Unni is presenting here. The appeal really is in just how the end product sounds. I'm relating an instance which actually clicked in my mind after reading the first sentence of Unni's response.

I recall watching this children's music show that Pakistan Television was showing a re-run of a few days back. In it, a young Adnan Sami Khan, when he still used to be a little less over-weight & unmarried, was trying to make songs while getting help from the children.
The whole process was interesting as he would ask the children to come up with the 'bol', which could be as simple as ...

Mere bhi aankhein do, Teri bhi aankhein do
Kabhi yeh dekhein sab nazaaray, Kabhi yeh jaayein so

And would then choose a 'Raag' for it. During the course of the programme, he went over Pahadi, Darbari and a few others, which I can't recall now. In doing so, he would sing the song and ask the children how the song sounded.
And what was amazing was, that it really didn't sound good when done in Pahadi raag, and just upon changing to Darbari, miraculously, it sounded better to the ear.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned my affinity for Raag Darbari Kannada on this board. It was actually brought to my attention by our resident hawaldaar Madam C, when I was relating some of my favourites to her. That day, I did find out that I had a certain liking for this raaga, what I did not find, was 'Why?'.

I have yet to reach the cause for my liking the 'grand'eur, 'royal'ty or 'heavy-weight' nature of this raaga. I am sure that there are technical reasons or certain intricacies/distinctive features, as Unni put it, that make this raaga stand out for me. As advanced as we might be technologically, I don't believe we've reached the stage where we can decipher, categorize and rationalize the reason for likes/dislikes of a certain person. Till then, I guess, I'll just have to listen to each and every song and see if I like it or not.

Happy listening to all of you.