Kailaash Kher's Next...

After a long wait since "chaandan mein", Kailash-Kher-struck music enthusiasts have something to look forward to this december.
The new album (in the pipeline right now) has 11 great tracks, some (like ujaale baant lo) dedicated to the environment and the imbalance that is created in
nature by a very egoistic tribe called humans, the song looks to warn against the nature's wrath, also tries to humbly educate man about the balance it needs
to strike between civilisation and nature..

One song (Amber tak yahi naad goonjega) is dedicated to the political revolution needed in India, and seeks to strengthen the morale of the masses supporting
Anna Hazaare, truly exuberating the song is an instant spirit lifter..

While kher, the spiritual "loverboy" engages you with a heart warming childlike essay of how his heavenly father always looks upon him and protects him from
the skies (babaji), he also, in another turn, takes you through his classic style of conversing with about the formless (albeliya) and in yet another fresh
composition (daaro na rang), he dramtizes the aankhmicholi, the push'n'pull of two eternal lovers, man and god.Yaadan teriyan is also a soulful call of the
eccentric to his beloved, the divine.

While rangeele (also the title of the album) is a very enthusiasm filled peppy number, there are simillar very joyful, fast-paced, catchy numbers in the entire
album with refreshing and rejuvinating gusto.
One takes inspiration from kher's young play days where a game had a punch line "hudkaanbaan vitti vitti vitti...", the song has imbibed rap in some of its
parts but kher balances the western version with powerful Indian styles of what he calls 'boli' which is ecstatic narration; the other energy filled
composition (katha gaan) is actually like travelling through an adventurous thriller full throttle, it has in it a way of storytelling as kher remembers from
his childhood days filled with angels and esoteric characters, the wilderness of the of the calm banyan tree of the village, et all.

The album, as his previous ones, is not your regular Indian sound of music, crossing paths in and out very quietly but vividly though, are sounds not staple
of any country, sounds which transcend the boundaries of nations.
The intro to tu kya jaane is internationally alternative in its sound, but blends perfectly into the rest of the body once Kher's vocals kick in..
The sounds are difficult to compartmentalise and one should listen to the album to really feel the vibe, sometimes sounding like peppy arabia, the album in
other places effortlessly imbibes in blues.

With the current album rangeele, Kailasa as a band has evolved into a much flamboyant fusion of all their members' musical gifts, music is no longer in the
background for the vocals of talented kher, it in fact plays around with the entire stage, flowing through it, sometimes taking over, but mostly accentuating
the vocals with a vibrant body of its own, all in all much much music in the soul, and much soul in the music.