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The Seventh Spring

Taimur Khan — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:13:44 +0000

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn :: Four Orientals seated under a tree; bearded old men wearing turbans, seated in a half-circle on a terrace, one holding a cup, the other a book, a steep rocky outcrop behind. c.1656-1661 | Click image for larger view. | source: britishmuseum.org

Aftab Datta had promptly uploaded the following gems from his collection for the seventh anniversary of sarangi.info, and I am responsible for the tardiness of this post. Emerson says in Spiritual Laws, “If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.”

Happy Equinox!

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muddat hu’ii hai yaar ko mihmaaN kiye hu’e
josh-e qadah se bazm chiraaghaaN kiye hu’e

it’s been some time since the beloved/friend was made a guest
[and] the mehfil illuminated with the fervor of the [wine] cup

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Ahmad Ali and Rahmat Ali Khan – Shuddh Sarang
Amanat Ali and Fateh Ali Khan – Miyan Malhar
Moinuddin and Aminuddin Dagar – Durga (Khamaj Thaat)
Amir Khan – Megh (unpublished)
Anant Manohar Joshi – Mawra
Anoklal Misra – Teentaal (tabla solo)
Arnab Chakrabarty – Des (sarod)
Ashraf Sharif Khan – Chhayanat (sitar)
Azmat Hussain Khan – Shuddh Nat
Badal Khan – Bhairav Bahar (sarangi)
Bashir Hussain – Asavari (sarangi)
Begum Akhtar – morii ho tuut gayii
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan – Sohni (1954)
Bhimsen Joshi – Lalit
Bundu Khan – Tilak Kamod (sarangi)
Chand Khan – Marubehag
Fateh Ali Khan – Hamsadhwani
Fayyaz Khan – Bageshree (Tarana)
Gajananrao Joshi – Puriya
Govind Prasad Jaipurwale – Rageshree
Hamid Hussain – Madhkauns (sarangi)
Hiradai Barodekar – Todi
Ijaz Hussain Hazravi – albaila yaar russi russi janda
Ilyas Hussain Khan – Chandni Kedar
Inderlal Dhandra – Gaud Sarang (sarangi)
Ismail Azad – na hum daulat ke bhooke haiN
Jagdish Prasad – Abhogi
Kabir – Aimen (sitar)
Kalyan Mukherjea – Hansakinkini
Khadim Hussain Khan – Adana (Tarana)
Latafat Hussain Khan – Lalit (Drut)
Latafat Hussain Khan – Miyan ka Sarang
Mehdi Hassan – Desi (Ghazal)
Moinuddin Khan – Nand (sarangi)
Mujahid Hussain Khan – Puriya Kalyan
Nabi Bakhsh – Shahana (sarangi)
Nathu Khan – Lalit (sarangi)
Nazakat Ali and Zakir Ali Khan – Bilaskhani Todi
Nissar Hussain Khan – Todi
Swami Parvatikar – Todi (dattatreya veena)
Sharif Khan Poonchwale – Behag (sitar)
Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar – Lalit
Ramzan Khan – Nat Bhairav (sarangi)
Rashid Khan – Jog
Rasiklal Andharia – Shuddh Sarang
Naseeruddin Saami – Darbari, Drut in Adana (Lahore Music Forum)
Naseeruddin Saami – Mand
Sadiq Ali Khan – Shankara (been)
Nazakat Ali and Salamat Ali Khan – Alhaiya Bilawal (Radio Pakistan)
Salamat Ali and Sharafat Salamat – Kamod
Shahid Parvez – Shyam Kalyan (sitar)
Shakoor Khan – Kedar (sarangi)
Sharafat Hussain Khan – Raisa Kanada
Sultan Khan – Patdeep (sarangi)
Surendranath – Darbari (been)
Swami Vallabhdas – Jog
Tarapada Chakraborty – Marwa
Vasantrao Deshpande – Chhayanat
Vijay Raghav Rao – Abhogi (bansuri)
Zia Moinuddin Dagar – Bhairavi (been)

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sarangi turns seven

Taimur Khan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:56:32 +0000

A Gathering of Holy Men of Different Faiths - Mir Kalan Khan (active ca. 1730–80) | metmuseum.org | Click image for larger view.

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dauRe hai phir har ek gul-o-laalah par khayaal
.sad gulsitaaN nigaah kaa saamaaN kiye hu’e

again thought runs on every single rose and tulip
having made a hundred gardens measures for the gaze

On this pleasant occasion, we want to thank all the friends and visitors of sarangi.info for their contributions, comments, appreciation and encouragement. This project flourishes because of you. ~~Music updates will be forthcoming everyday for the next seven days as a part of this seven-year celebration.~~

Warm regards,

PS See this post for the music update: The Seventh Spring

Sultan Khan (1940 – 2011) – Raag Sehra

Taimur Khan — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:57:13 +0000

Shah Jahan Album | metmuseum.org | Click image for larger view.

Dr. Kashyap Dave has kindly shared the following recording and comments:

Download: sk_sehra.mp3

Raag Sehra by Ustad Sultan Khan on sarangi: a tribute to my teacher Ustad Sultan Khan. This is the name given by him to this raag from the forbidden scale. Once he recorded this for radio & asked to cancel it saying it is too sad so should not be aired. What could be a sadder occasion than this? Mehdi Hassan also sang one ghazal in this raag: Jab tere nain muskurate haiN. Audio quality is poor due to limited resources.

Mumbai, Nov 27 (IBNS) Sarangi exponent Ustad Sultan Khan, known for his instrumental skills, passed away on Sunday in Mumbai. He was 71 and died of kidney failure. –India Blooms News Service

The two time Sangeet Natya Academy Award winner was awarded India’s third highest civilian award Padma Bhushan last year.

A sarangi maestro he used to play Hindustani classical music and was a member of the Indian fusion group Tabla Beat Science, with Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell.

Tutored by his father Gulab Khan, Sultan Khan, who belonged to the Indore gharana, first performed at the All-India Conference at the age of 11.

He had accompanied Pandit Ravi Shankar on George Harrison’s Dark Horse tour in 1974.

He was also on the soundtracks of films like Gandhi and In Custody besides performing at Prince Charles’ 50th birthday celebration in 1997.

He was also the recipient of Gold Medalist Award of Maharashtra and the American Academy of Artists Award in 1998.

He sang “Albela sajan aayo re…”along with Shanker Mahadevan in the 1999 Sanjay Leela Bhansali film “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam”.

His son, Sabir Khan, who is his student as well, is a well-known sarangi player too.

Aftab Equinox

Taimur Khan — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:54:49 +0000

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lutf-e khiraam-e saaqii-o-zauq-e sadaa-e chang
yih jannat-e nigaah vuh firdaus-e gosh hai

the grace of the Cupbearear’s gait, and the relish of the lute’s sound
this is a heaven of the eye; that, a paradise of the ear

This music has been generously shared by Aftab Datta: it is the peculiar good fortune of sarangi.info that he owns it too.

Abdul Rashid Khan – Nayaki Kanada
Abid Hussain – Des (Rudra Veena)
Afzal Hafiz Khan – Patdeep
A. Kanan – Jog
Amanat Ali & Fateh Ali Khan – Chandini Kedar
Nasir Aminuddin Dagar – Durga (Khamaj Thaath)
Amir Ahmed – Ahir Bhairav
Amir Khan – Ahiri
Arnab Chakrabarty – Chhayanat
Asad Ali Khan – Nat Behag
Asad Ali & Hamid Ali Khan – Chandini Kedar
Ata Hussain – Lalit
Aurangzeb Khan – Bageshree
Begum Akhtar – Chhaa Rahii Kaali Ghataa
Badi Motibai – Khamaj
Hussain Bakhsh Gullo – Mian ki Todi
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan – Marwa (unpublished)
Bundu Khan – Gaud Malhar
Chote Ghulam Ali Khan – Shudhh Kalyan
Chand Khan – Marubehag
D. V. Paluskar – Basant
Fahimuddin Dagar – Multani
Fayyaz Khan – Shyam Kalyan
Farida Khanum – Rah Dekhenge
Ganesh Ramchandrabehere – Behag
A. G. Ginde – Bhairav
Ijaz Hussain Hazarvi – Hai Justajoo Keh
Irfan Mohammed – Shree
Jagdish Prasad – Kedar
Krishnarao Shankar Pandit – Bhopali
Kumar Prasad – Megh Malhar
Manzoor Khan – Gaud Sarang (Tarana)
Nasir Ahmed – Puriya Kalyan
Nathu Khan – Nand
Nazar Hussain – Marwa
Nirmal Guha Thakurata – Miyan Malhar
Nisar Hussain Khan – Chhayanat
Nizamuddin – Ahir Bhairav
Pannalal Ghosh – Desi
Rasiklal Andharia – Kafi (Hori)
Ravi Kitchlu – Bhairavi
Radhika Mohan Maitra – Patdeep
Roshanara Begum – Jhinjhoti (Thumri)
Shafi Ahmed – Lalita Gauri
Shahida Parveen – Ahir Bhairav
Shahid Parvez – Rageshree
Shakoor Khan – Ramkali
Sharafat Hussain Khan – Jog
Subramanya Hegde – Puriya Kalyan
Umeed Ali Khan – Asavari
Umeed Ali Khan – Hindol Bahar
Vilayat Khan – Lalit (Mehfil at Imrat Khan’s home.)
Vijay Raghav Rao – Amritvarshini
Waheed Ali Khan – Sarang
Zia Moinuddin Dagar – Puriya

More sarangi on YouTube

Taimur Khan — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:43:22 +0000

Dear Friends,

I’m sure many of you would have discovered Mr. Rahman’s YouTube channel and heard the lovely sarangi and other classical recordings there. If you haven’t, here it is.

Warm regards,

Taimur

Aftab’s Spring 2011 Collection

Taimur Khan — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:32:39 +0000

A Young Prince With Mystics; Mughal Period India; circa 1635 CE | Aga Khan Museum | Click image for larger view.

The Mughal Prince Dara Shikuh (1615-59 CE), the eldest and favourite son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, was profoundly interested in mysticism and his writings centre on Sufi topics and poetry. A noted patron of the arts and calligraphy, the prince presented his wife with an album of paintings and calligraphy now known as the Dara Shikuh Album and held in the British Library. The present portrait is compositionally and stylistically very similar to paintings in the album by an artist identified by Falk and Archer as “Artist B” (Falk and Archer 1981, pp. 73, 383). It has been suggested that “Artist B” was influenced by the work of Govardhan, the celebrated Mughal painter whose paintings of sages and ascetics are full of life, psychological depth, a subdued palette and perspective. All of these elements are present in this extraordinary portrait. On the reverse of the album leaf is a calligraphy specimen by Muhammad Husayn of Kashmir, the famous Akbari calligrapher known as “Golden Pen” (Zarin Qalam). –Aga Khan Museum

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hai rang-e laalah-o-gul-o-nasrii;N judaa judaa
har rang me;N bahaar kaa i;sbaat chaahiye
the color of tulip and rose and eglantine is each one separate
in every mood/aspect/’color’, a proof of spring is needed

Ali Ahmed Khan – Shahana
Amanat Ali & Fateh Ali Khan – Aimen (tarana)
Amanat Ali & Fateh Ali Khan – Madhuvanti
Asad Ali Khan (Agra) – Purvi
Badar Zaman & Qamar Zaman – Dhani (APMC 2007)
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan – Miyan Malhar
Bundu Khan – Desi
Bundu Khan – Jaijaivanti
Chote Ghulam Ali Khan – Megh (Radio Pakistan)
Fayyaz Khan – Chayyanat
Ghulam Shabbir & Ghulam Jaffar – Hijaz
Habib Ali Beenkar – Hamir
Hamid Hussain – Bheem
Hirabai Barodekar – Todi
Ikram Wahid – Bhairavi (Radio Pakistan)
Kabir – Shree
Kumar Prasad Mukherjee – Barwa
Laddan Khan – Marwa
Latafat Hussain Khan – Megh
Manzoor Khan – Hindol Bahar
Mohammad Akhtar – Basant
Mohammad Salim – Miyan ki Todi (Radio Pakistan)
Moinuddin Khan – Bageshree
Mubarak Ali – Narayani
Mushtaq Ali – Durga
Nasir Aminuddin Dagar – Durga (Khamaj Thaat)
Ram Narayan – Shankara
Narayan Rao Vyas – Gaud Malhar
Nasir Ahmed – Kedara
Parvatikar – Bhairav (Veena)
Parvatikar – Bhopali (Surmandal)
Sharif Khan Poonchewalay – Aimen (Veena)
Ravi Kitchlu – Bhairav
Radhika Mohan Maitra – Chayyabehag
Radhika Mohan Maitra – Kafi
Roshan Ali – Lalit
Roshan Ara Begum – Bageshree (Radio Pakistan)
Salamat Hussain – Gorakh Kalyan
Nazakat Ali & Salamat Ali Khan – Bairagi (live)
Nazakat Ali & Salamat Ali Khan – Gorakh Kalyan (live)
Nazakat Ali & Salamat Ali Khan – Suha Adana
Naseeruddin Saami – Jaijaivanti
Mohammad Hussain Sarahang – Shankara
Sarah Zaman – Hamir
Ghulam Hassan Shaggan – Ahir Bhairav (Radio Pakistan)
Ghulam Hassan Shaggan – Dadra
Shahida Parveen – Shankara (APMC 1987)
Sharafat Hussain – Malti Basant
Shashi Tripathi – Kabhi Kabhi (Bhimpalasi | Faiz tribute)
Sohni Khan – Aimen (Radio Pakistan)
Surendranath – Shankarabaran
Swami Vallabhdas – Gorakh Kalyan
Tarapada Chakraborty – Puriya Kalayan
Uday Bhawalkar – Puriya Dhanasree
Zakir Ali & Akhtar Ali – Marwa (Radio Pakistan)
Noor Zehra & Farukh Bashir – Behag

sarangi turns six

Taimur Khan — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:24:50 +0000

Click to view slideshow.

Slideshow: sarangi [1] [2] [3] at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Download: nab_todi.mp3

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baagh-e shiguftah teraa bisaat-e nashaat-e dil
abr-e bahaar khum-kadah kis ke dimaagh kaa

your garden in bloom, a carpet of the fruitfulness of the heart
the spring raincloud, the {cask/distillery}-house of whose mind?

Fayyaz Khan – Lalit (alap)
Hanuman Prasad Mishra – Puriya Kalyan
Kesarbai Kerkar – Barwa
Latafat Hussain Khan – Malti Basant
Nazakat Ali & Salamat Ali – Bhatiyar
Nazakat Ali & Salamat Ali – Multani
Ghulam Hassan Shaggan – Lalit
Uknown Artist – Yaman Kalyan
Umeed Ali Khan – Hem Kalyan

Zahoori Khan – Marubihag
Haider Bakhsh Faloosa – Tilang & Sindhi Kafi
Nazir Ahmed Butt – Miyan ki Todi
Azizuddin – Shuddh Sarang

Vilayat Khan & Munir Khan – Bilaskhani Todi

The first nine items have been shared by Aftab Datta, the next four are from Sahibzada Ghulam Ali’s collection accessed by Suhaib Kiani, and the Bilaskhani Todi was shared with us by Nampreet Singh.

Eid Mubarak

Taimur Khan — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:00:30 +0000

Gold pendant embellished with enamel; Hegira 5th century, AD 11th century, Fatimid; Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo, Egypt

Bismillah Khan – Raag Jaunpuri

Download: bismillah_jaunpuri.mp3

Aftab’s Fall 2010 Collection

Taimur Khan — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:43:26 +0000

Crow On Cherry 桜花鴉図 Kyoto, Kubota Tosui, Japanese, 1841–1911

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vuhii ik baat hai jo yaa;N nafas vaa;N nak’hat-e gul hai
chaman kaa jalvah baa((i;s hai mirii rangii;N-navaa))ii kaa

it is that same thing that here is breath, there the scent of the rose
the glory of the garden is the cause of my colorful-voicedness

Download: laddankhan_khamaj.mp3

Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence,
As when the cock crows on the left and all
Is well, incalculable balances,
At which a kind of Swiss perfection comes
And a familiar music of the machine
Sets up its Schwärmerei, not balances
That we achieve, but balances that happen,
As a man and woman meet and love forthwith.
Perhaps there are moments of awakening,
Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in which
We more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep,
As on an elevation, and behold
The academies like structures in a mist.
—
from Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction by Wallace Stevens

Abdul Rashid – Gunkali (Vichitra Veena)
Abdul Sattar (Tari Khan) – 10.5 Matra (Bombay)
Abid Hussain – Bhimpalasi (Rudra Veena)
Ali Ahmed – Gorakh Kalyan (Shehnai)
Allaudin Khan – Nat (Sursringar)
Altaf Hussain – Aimen
Amanat & Fateh Ali Khan – Multani (14 Years old)
Amir Ahmed Khan – Mian Ki Todi
Ashiq Ali Khan – Hindol Bahar
Ashutosh Upadhyay – Teentaal (Pakhawaj)
Aurangzeb Rangi Khan – Shahana (Shehnai)
Azmat Hussain Khan – Gauri
Badi Motibai – Sindhura (Thumri)
Bundu Khan – Sindhura
Birendra Kishore Roy Choadhury – Lalit (Sursringar)
Chote Ghulam Ali Khan – Asavari
D.V. Paluskar – Chayanat
D.V. Paluskar – Khambavati
Dr. Parvatikar – Pilu Pahadi
Faheem Mazhar – Jaunpuri
Faiyaz Khan – Gaud Malhar
Faiyaz Khan – Vibhas
Faiyaz Khan – Aimen Kalyan
Farida Khanum – Shankara
Fateh Ali & Amjad Ali Khan – Durga
Fateh Ali Khan – Kaushik Dhuni
Fateh Ali Khan – Shudh Sarang
Fateh Ali Khan – Kedar (Tarana)
Gajananrao Joshi – Megh
Ghulam Hassan Shaggan – Mian Ki Todi (Radio Pakistan)
Ghulam Hassan Shaggan – Puriya Dhanasri (Radio Pakistan)
Ghulam Hassan Shaggan – Thumri
Ghulam Taqi Khan – Nayaki Kanada
Ginde, KG – Jhinjoti (Dhamar)
Gopeshwar Bandyopadhyay – Bilawal Ki Prakar
Hamid Hussain – Jaijaiwanti (Sarangi)
Hamid Hussain – Maru Bihag (Sarangi)
Hussain Baksh Gullo – Bhopali Todi
Ijaz Hussain Hazravi – Ae Chehra (Lalit)
Ilyas Hussain Khan – Desi Todi
Ilyas Khan – Chhayanat (Sitar)
Kabir Khan – Marwa (Sitar)
KG Ginde - Jhinjoti (Dhamar)
Kumar Prasad Mukherjee – Kedar
Laddan Khan – Khamaj (Sarangi)
Lalmani Misra – Multani (Vichitra Veena)
Master Vyas – Bhopali (Jaltarang)
Meena Lodhi – Malkauns
Mohammed Afzal & Hafiz Khan – Pilu
Mohammed Hussain Sarahang – Kafi
Mohammed Juman – Kaushikdhuni (Thumri)
Moinuddin & Aminuddin Dagar – Multani
Moinuddin & Aminuddin Dagar – Shahana (Alap)
Mubarak Ali Khan – Purvi (Bade Ghulam Ali’s younger brother)
Mubarak Ali Multani – Kaunsi Kanada
Mushtaq Ali Khan – Kafi (Sitar)
Mushtaq Hussain – Sarparda Bilawal
Nabi Bakhsh – Ahir Bhairav (Sarangi)
NarayanRao Vyas – Vibhas
Nasir Ahmed Khan – Chandrakauns
Nasiruddin Sami – Barwa
Nazakat Ali Khan – Mian Ki Malhar
Nazar Hussain – Malgunji (Sarod)
Netai Basu – Patdeep (Sitar)
Nirmal Guha Thakurata – Purvi (Sitar)
Nisar Hussain – Bihag
Noor Zehra – Nat Bhairav (Sagar Veena)
Radhika Bundhkar – Shree (Vichitra Veena)
Radhika Mohan Maitra – Nat Malhar (Sarod)
Rajab Ali Khan – Bageshree
Rasik Lal Andharia – Gorakh Kalyan
Rasik Lal Andharia – Shree
Ravi Kichlu – Bageshree
Sadiq Ali – Pilu (Rudra Veena)
Salamat & Sharafat Ali Khan – Nat Narayani
Salamat & Sharafat Ali Khan – Ahir Bhairav
Salamat Ali Khan – Patdeep
Sanjoy Bandyopadhyay- Hussaini Kanada (Sitar)
Saptarshi Hazra – Bageshri (Sitar)
Satyakinkar Bandopadhyay – Bihag
Shahid Pervez- Puriya Dhanasri (Sitar)
Shahid Pervez – Shyam Kalyan (Sitar)
Shahida Parveen – Bageshree
Sharafat Hussian – Bhairav
Sharafat Hussian – Gorakh Kalyan
Sharif Hussain – Pilu (Sarod)
Siyaram Tiwari – Darbari (from Patrick Moutal’s website)
Surendranath – Chayyanat (Sursringar)
Swami Vallabhdas – Nat Behag
Umeed Ali Khan – Madhuvanti
Vijay Raghav Rao – Amritvarshini (Bansuri)
Wahid Hussain – Bhimpalasi

Ranadhir Roy, Radhika Mohan Maitra and Liaqat Khan

Taimur Khan — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:55:20 +0000

Closeup of an Esraj donated to Tokyo University of the Arts by the late Professor Koizumi Fumio's widow.

Download: liaqatkhan_charukeshi.mp3

Esraj and Sarod recordings shared by Robert Messiah:

Professor Ranadhir Roy
Bilaskhani Todi 1
Bilaskhani Todi 2

Radhika Mohan Maitra
Bageshri
Bhairav Bahar
Bhairavi
Des 1
Des 2
Gaud Sarang

Sarangi recordings shared by Kamran Nagi:

Ustad Liaqat Khan
Charukeshi
Madhuvanti 1
Madhuvanti 2
Maand