a place among the stars *

you put a reminder to wake up at a certain time on a certain special day. it obediently plays back, you wake up simply because the excitement of the moment overcomes your struggle to be in the bed in the wee morning hours. You wake up with a hope, a notion, love and support, switch on the laptop and keep awaiting for the moment. the moment which so-called recognizes matchless talent and gives international widespread recognition to the people who deserve it but things did not always turn around as you expect them to be. At times that moment leaves you with a sense of disappointment that things went wrong and people were apparently unfair. This is what happened in 87th academy awards where The Budapest Hotel won best original motional picture soundtrack award over Interstellar. I find Interstellar’s OST as one of the best and jaw-dropping works of Hans Zimmer so far. Any other OST’s released in the same year stand nowhere in front of it. It is so defining, so much into the ambience of the movie, highly cinematic and accentuates almost everything that you see on screen – a splendid work of a genius! What makes Zimmer’s work so unique is sheer zeal of creating something out-of-this-world kind of thing by using something different or using differently be it an idea, an instrument, any distortion or testing the limits of someone’s talent. Look at the way he used that distorted guitar sound to create hatred of The Joker, santoor for Mr Holmes, arabic Desi-2 Basara-2 chanting recording involving thousands of people for Mr Wyane and now that bringing the sound of that church organ for a wormhole journey. if you listen to it very carefully, you figure out that the main theme does not have more than 4 notes playing at different octaves, still defining every emotional aspect of the scene. I mean you start listening, it enters into your blood, sedate your brain and will never ever leave the place it creates! So if this kind of masterpiece work goes without any recognition, it shakes your faith in those institutions and leaves you under the impression that they are nothing more than a faction of snobbish people who are only there to grind their own axes.

But in my and many other people’s eyes, you will always be a hero, a performer, a true genius, a talent born so rarely, an irreplaceable magician of music. every soundtrack that you create deserves many more greater accolades than this fucking trivial OSCOR.

So much love and respect, always and forever!

Keep playing with that bleeding finger! :)