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   Aamir Raza Sherazi says:
   April 12th, 2008 at 11:28 pm

   Dear Aftab Bai,

   Thanks for showing and dispersing classical music for all
   Regards
   Aamir

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   Suhaib Kiani says:
   January 11th, 2008 at 6:15 am

   Apologies, the earlier post was meant to be on this page……
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   Although well known and very well respected, particularly amongst the Afghans, Ustad Mohammad Hussain Sarahang is perhaps one of the under-rated singers of Indian Classical Music.

   My association with his music started with his brilliant Aiman Farsi Bandish cum tarana we found on an Afghanistan Music website. It was a long wait thereafter until we got a hold of the treasure trove of music now available on his page. Over the years I have come to regard him as one the most versatile singers, not only by virtue of the ease which which his voice surfs through three octaves but also in terms of his command and delight in performing almost various genres from khayal, tarana, thumri, ghazal, in urdu, farsi, pushto, darri, right upto what appears to be a something like a folk tappa/mahiyaa in saraiki/Punjabi (available somewhere on youtube). By the way, hats off to the people uploading large volumes of his work onto youtube of late, I understand that that some of his recordings from sarangi.info have also been made onto videos…more of such dedication please….

   After listening to the thoroughly enjoyable Bahar recording kindly shared by Aftab Datta here, I feel that Ustad Sarahang was also very adept in number of gaiki styles. In this recording, it seems that he is deliberately singing in the style of his guru Ashiq Ali Khan (particularly note double staccato sargam hits around 14.10 / 14.36). The gamak laden drut bandish for me emphasizes the overlap between Gwalior and Patiala gaiki (also seem in Ashiq Ali Khan’s recordings with Umeed Ali Khan).

   Anyways, I may be completely off here and I would welcome comments by more discerning listeners but I would like to narrate the anecdote about Ustad Sarahang’s live Bhairvi recording (available on the site) to highlight the earlier point. It is said that Roshan Ara Begum was in the audience at the time of that particular performance and had requested Sarahang sahib to sing the Jamuna ke teer thumri in the style of her guru Abdul Karim Khan as she had heard that Sarahang Sahib at times used to sing it in that manner…..

   In the end, I have an obnoxious request to anybody who is reading this in Kabul. Please borrow a set of loud speakers from the local mosque, kindly connect them to your sound unit and play the bhairvi recording if its daytime and the Bahar one if its night-time……………all in memory of Zahir Shah, the Last King of Afghanistan….who as Robert Fisk independently tells us was not really interested in politics (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2795821.ece) …I think after listening to Ustad Sarahang one can perhaps conclude that he had good reason not to be….

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   Jaspal Randhawa says:
   January 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 am

   Niaz Ahmed Khan Sahib’s recording is from the BBC Proms all night concert in the Royal Albert Hall in London. I think it was in 1980 or 1981 and it was transmitted live on BBC Radio 3. My Ustad, Ustad Sultan Khan Sahib accompanied him on Sarangi and the late Avtar Singh - disciple of Pandit Samta Prasad - accompanied him on tabla. Other artists who performed on that night were Ustad Vilayat Khan Sahib on sitar and Zakir Hussain on tabla. The other items I remember from that concert was that Ustad Vilayat Khan Sahib played Raga Vilayatkhani Kanada (his own creation), Ustad Sultan Khan Sahib played a solo on sarangi in Raga Bageshree with Zakir Bhai and then Zakir Bhai played a tabla solo in taal Rupak. Niaz Ahmed Khan Sahib also sang Raga Lalit and Ustad Vilayat Khan Sahib played another raga which I don’t remember. It was an excellent concert.

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   j s pande says:
   January 1st, 2008 at 9:45 am

   phulvan ki gaindan maika na maro re
   na maro more meet piharva

   naam na jaanoon dhaam na jaanoon
   ab kaasan kariye ri pukar

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   yammeen says:
   December 31st, 2007 at 11:11 pm

   happy that this debate resolved with few casualties.

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   rukmangada says:
   December 1st, 2007 at 6:01 pm

   Dear Aftabji,
   shahana kanada by Ustad Niaz Ahmed khan is very good.Sarangi saath is very sureli. I wonder who this unique artiste is!.Thanks for providing such a good music.

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   Dr. Kashyap says:
   November 22nd, 2007 at 9:05 am

   Thanks Mr. Miller for sparing time.

   It will give me immense pleasure responding to your comment.

   But I think if you go carefully thro’ all the previous comments with the same eye, much of the space of sarangi.info can be saved without violating the very humble purpose of this site.

   With best regards to honest music lovers.

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   Suhaib Kiani says:
   November 22nd, 2007 at 5:17 am

   As I hinted earlier about Amir Khan’s Aiman record, there are a few distinct sangeet recordings which have had a profound impact on my musical consciousness and redirected the direction of my development (I would compare it with an asteroid hitting a planet and altering the orbit of revolution).

   One such recording was Ustad Fayyaz Khan’s Jaunpuri epic “Phulwan ke ga[gg]an mein ka na maar o rey”. And it was a brilliant surprise to hear Ravi Kitclu Jee break into the same bandish in Khan Sahib’s Agra style.

   Aftab, once again, Many Thanks.

   Suhaib Kiani

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   Arthur Miller says:
   November 22nd, 2007 at 2:42 am

   Dr Kashyap,

   One must always first understand what a person is trying to communicate. You are being the most irrational and impatient one here. I am quite sure that you do not at all have the patience to read one whole response, by myself or from anyone else in this thread. I have not commented at all on anyone’s collection. Perhaps you have some sort of a complex with collections.

   I am a man of very precisely chosen interests and words. I picked up one fine Raga and stick to that. The rendering didn’t turnout quite as much as I expect of Nazakat/Salamat because I have listened to Salamat more in person than in recordings.

   On the other hand, by your non-serious attitude, you try to present this great portal as a childish ‘meena-bazaar’. Look at your own words:

   “This is neither a commercial site nor a promotional site for a particular artist. Just pick up that interests you.”

   I think music is not for you because you dont draw any grace from it. Rather you take pride in just collections and collections and collections.

   Kindly choose your words more gracefully next time. If you have trouble doing that, please consult other serious visitors of sarangi.info, they can definitely guide you in choosing what to say and how to say it.

   To all others who can see beyond the ordinary in music, my best regards.

   Arthur S. Miller

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    Dr. Kashyap says:
    November 16th, 2007 at 8:44 am

    ‘Hitting head for aching abdomen’

    Mr. Arthur,

    As we fail to understand your expert criticism, please allow us to get impressed by your musical depth by posting some of the unpublished recordings of Ustad Salamatali / Ustad Nazakatali where you think full potential of the ustads have been elaborated. This will also help we ignorant people feel more proud of our music & musicians.

    There is a gross confusion in your thinking. You seem to be in dilemma where to focus; on emotions or on rationality or some convenient place between the two.

    Being an expert pilot cannot automatically make you an expert swimmer. Please remain confined to your field of knowledge. This will help us respect you in a better way.

    This is neither a commercial site nor a promotional site for a particular artist. Just pick up that interests you. You have no right to criticize anybody’s collection in a public forum, who is working very hard to provide good recordings to the world. Please keep your valued criticism in the inner pocket rather than striking it every hour like a night watchman.

    In a public forum, commenting on music itself (with of couuse, proper knowledge of the same segment) is a different thing & criticizing somebody’s collection or criticizing on a particular group of audience is different thing.

    You should admire Indian classical music lover’s patience for tolerating you rather than criticizing the Delhi audience sincerely listening to our respected ustads.

    When you believe nobody is beyond criticism, at least you will surely love to be criticized.

    With due respect

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