Salame Salame - Ghost by Toshi, Sharib, Shaan, Shaarib Sabri, Bob

Few songs from 2012 have held their ground as well as Salame Salame - Ghost, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Toshi, Sharib's arrangement gives the track a layered quality that rewards repeated listening.

The performance by Toshi, Sharib, Shaan, Shaarib Sabri, Bob is the centrepiece here — controlled where it needs to be, open where it counts. For fans of Shiney Ahuja, Julia Bliss, Sayali Bhagat, Salame Salame - Ghost is one of those songs that immediately conjures specific scenes and emotions.

By the end of 2012, Salame Salame - Ghost had moved well beyond its original audience and into everyday playlists. Listeners have described the experience of Salame Salame - Ghost differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

The 4:34 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. The track stands as evidence that Toshi, Sharib, Shaan, Shaarib Sabri, Bob and Toshi, Sharib, working together, are capable of something well above the ordinary.