Another album highlight, "Yun Hi Chala Chal," has Kailash Kher singing for Rahman in his coarse, folk-influenced voice. Yet calling him exclusively an electronic enthusiast would be a gross understatement - "Pal Pal Hai Bhaari," along with an instrumental on flute, showcases Rahman's delicate treatment of themes as diverse as a traditional Ramleela song. Much of this inspiration can be traced back to Rahman's starting career as a composer of commercial jingles, and this provides reason enough for his growing popularity among world fusion music aficionados. A strictly "Indian" vocal melody is placed over a techno-styled drum'n'bass background which otherwise would have been treated conventionally, with orchestral arrangements, by any other composer. "Saanwariya Saanwariya" proves the best paradigm of this approach here. Having rejected the age-old durational rhythm structure that makes each song musically concrete in Indian tradition, Rahman relied heavily on the principle of contrast, where the background, rather than providing a rhythmic direction to the song, acts as a colored canvas with a fragmented repetitive melodic design. The title track "Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera," along with its Shehnai instrumental, underlines Rahman's profound use of high-pitched vocals over sparse non-rhythmic instrumentation to create dramatically powerful themes.
The same magnanimity is mirrored in the music of Swades. Rahman conducted a concert for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra where his selected songs were played by the well-renowned, full 76-piece orchestra.
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