We hear the term “world music” bandied around a lot these days, a term that seems to imply that the folk traditions and cultural sounds of a place or a people are like entities trapped in amber, caught in time, unable to evolve. But the music that Music UnLtd. makes is actually what I think that world music is all about, the sound of a modern player merging the sounds largely identified with his own culture with those found further afield, in the case of “I Like Green Eyes Too,” a more Western-oriented structure.
There may be a better word for it, global music. The sound of music mixing, merging, and melding natural, genre, and geography, sound and style, here is the perfect blend of east and west, occident and orient.
But that is enough of the theory; it’s the music that matters, and this is music that does matter. Although it takes the form of very recognisable balladic pop, when you step back from the sonic architecture and look at the building blocks that make up this gorgeous sound, what immediately stands out is a psychedelic-infused sitar and those dexterous, exotic tabla beats. Not to mention Milind Chitnavis’s warm and captivating vocals.
By the second spin, you realise just what a wonderful blend of sounds is going on here – gentle piano cascades, delicate bass pulses, acoustic guitar textures, and the brooding and beautiful strains of the beguiling cello.
It’s a story of a couple realising that their relationship is over and deciding, very maturely, to end things amicably, which is also a revelation in a world full of the drama and bitterness of most pop breakup songs.
“I Like Green Eyes Too” is that rarest of things: a song that defies categorization, the sound of cultural cross-pollination, a progressive path taken by both contemporary pop and musical tradition hand in hand. More than that, it is simply a beautiful song. And that is the only thing that really matters.
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