Road To Perdition - Title Soundtrack- "Rock Island, 1931"

Oh... My... God.... Thomas Newman ... One of the Best Music Composers. Gives Music that really touches the soul. After watching the movie, this particular score which comes in the background of the title of the movie, when the kid rides on a bicycle.- This has haunted my mind for so long and even now, this refreshes your mind instantly.

The splendour with which Thomas Newman composes the music can be felt throughout the movie. A music director who stands so uniquely from others, yet with his own magnificence.

Rakkamma kaiya thattu - One of BBC's top 10 Best tunes of all time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/us/features/topten/profiles/index.shtml

Composer: Ilayaraja
Movie : Thalapathi

Language: Tamil

Singers : S.P.Balasubramaniam, Swarnalatha

The beauty of the song lies in the synchronisation of those 64 VIOLINS. The orchestration is simply spell-bounding. The transition of the song from the folkish style to the devotional number and then back to the folkish style is amazing.

The no. of violins Ilayaraja has used and their synchronization is even now very difficult to reproduce by any other music director.

It rightly deserves the "BBC's One of the Top 10 Best Tunes of All Time" title.

Couples Retreat - 2009 Oscar winner's next Hollywood venture (Sound track links)

Couples Retreat is an upcoming 2009 comedy filmdirected by Peter Billingsley and written by Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn and Dana Fox. Vaughn and Favreau also star in the film. The cast also includesFaizon Love, Jason Bateman,Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman and Kali Hawk. A. R. Rahman, winner of two Oscars at the81st Academy Awards, is scoring the music for this film

The Sound track of the movie is available for getting mesmerized at the movie's official site.

http://www.couplesretreatsoundtrack.com/

A R Rahman never forgets his mother tongue "Tamil" Be it the speech after receiving the coveted Oscar "Ella Pugazhum Iraivanukke" (Glory to God) or this wonderful song in his soul-touching voice in the song "Kuru Kuru Kan" from "Couples Retreat".

Rahman also is actually fulfilling his dream-bringing Indian music to the world audience. The soundtrack has got many tunes with the same grandeur of th Hollywood music directors yet with the Indian flavor with the use of instruments like Tabla, Sitar and many more.

The track, "Jason & cynthia" in particular reminds us of his inclination to Western Clasical Music. (As we all know, Rahman has founded a Conservatory @ Chennai, India for popularising all forms of Classical music and in particular Western Classical.)

Stay tuned for more.