Here’s our second recording at Rohtas Fort, 13 December 2021.
Raag Darbari Kanada | راگ درباری کانہڑہ
Sarangi – Taimur Khan
Tabla – Sarfraz Khan
Cameras – Eliyab Sarfraz
Audiovisual editing, mixing and mastering – Khurram Waqar
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A rare sketch of Momin Khan ‘Momin’ – attributed to Jivan Ram. | The Harvard Art Museum
Altaf Hussain Khan – Savani Nat
D.V. Paluskar – Puriya Dhaneshree
Ghulam Shabbir & Jaffer Khan – Gujri Todi
Hamid Hussain & Zahid Hussain – Darbari
Ismail Azad Qawwal – Na Hum Daolat Ke Bhookay Hain
Jagannathbuwa Purohit – Bhimpalasi
Kishori Amonkar – Hindol (1981, Bombay)
Krishnarao Shankar Pandit – Asavari
Mohammed Hussain – Kafi
Mohammed Sharif Khan Poonchewale – Sohni
Murli Manohar Shukla – Jaijaivanti (2002)
Nazakat Ali and Salamat Ali Khan – Kedar (Drut)
Pyarijan Babulkot – Bhimpalasi
Radhika Mohan Maitra – Chandra Malhar
Rehmatullah Khan – Gaur Malhar
Miniature pasted on an album leaf from the period of Shah Jahan. “King David Playing the Harp”. Mughal India; 1610-1620 (miniature) and c. 1640 (leaf) | The David Collection | Click image for larger view.
Here is more music from Aftab’s collection to keep us warmhearted this winter.
With the Season’s Greetings!
Ahmed Ali & Rehmat Ali Khan – Shudh Sarang
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan – Multani & Lankeshwari Kahnra
Chote Ghulam Ali Khan – Basant
Eid Mohammed Ajmeri – Teentaal
Feroze Dastur – Sarparda Bilawal
Jagannathbuwa Purohit – Multani
Kumar Prasad Mukherjee & Dinkar Kaikini – Gaur Malhar (Farhat Said Khan Collection)
Mohammed Sharif Khan Poonchewale – Kafi
Mushtaq Ali Khan – Mian Ki Malhar
Nazakat Ali & Salamat Ali – Kedar (Live)
Rais Khan – Todi – (Tabla: Swapan Chaudhuri)
Riaz Ahmad – Teentaal Solo (Lahore, 11-27-2016)
Roshanara Begum – Kedar (Tarana)
Salim Husain Khan – Thumri Khamaj
Sharafat Hussain Khan – Jaijaiwanti, 1972 (Farhat Said Khan Collection)
Tajamul Hussain Khan – Jaunpuri (Tabla: Bashir Khan; Sarangi: Zahid Hussain)
Adjutant Stork (Leptoptilos dubius) by Shaikh Zain ud-Din, c. 1780.
Ahmed Ali & Rehmat Ali Khan – Tilak Kamod
Amanat & Fateh Ali Khan – Miyan Malhar
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan – Bhopali & Kamod (1957)
Ganesh Prasad Mishra – Shuddh Sarang
Ghulam Shabbir & Jaffer Khan – Patmanjari
Latafat Hussain Khan – Shahana Kanada
Munawar Ali Khan – Jaijaiwanti, Basant, Adana, Bahar, Chhayanat (1969; Farhat Said Khan Collection)
Rais Khan & Shamta Prasad – Mian Ki Malhar (1969)
Raiz Ahmed – Teentaal (6 March 2016, Lahore)
Roshanara Begum – Shankara (78rpm)
Salamat Ali Khan – Durga (Live)
Sarvesh Mathur & V.G. Jog – Hamir (1962; Farhat Said Khan Collection)
Sharafat Hussain Khan – Jaunpuri
Sharif Khan Poonchwaale – Megh
Sisirkana Dhar Chaudhry – Mudriki Todi
Head of an Elephant – Kota, Rajasthan, 1700-1710.
Some more heartwarming music from Aftab Datta’s winter collection.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Abdul Rashid Khan – Bageshree Kanada (Veena)
Azmat Hussain Khan – Miyan Malhar (Bandish demo)
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan – Kedara (Radio)
Barkat Ali Khan – Khammaj (Dadra)
Basavaraj Rajguru – Shudh Sarang
Birendra Kishore Roy Chaudhury – Shivmat Bhairav
Faiyaz Khan – Lachhari Todi (Alap)
Ghulam Hassan Shaggan – Anand Bhairav
Gyanendra Prasad Goswami – Malgunji
Krishnarao Shankar Pandit – Multani
Latafat Hussain Khan & Vijay Kichlu – Todi (Farhat Said Khan Collection)
Mubarak Ali Khan – Shyam Kalyan
Mubarak Ali – Barwa (Bade Ghulam Ali’s brother)
Munnawar Ali Khan – Kamod (Farhat Said Khan Collection 1969)
Mushtaq Ali Khan – Nayaki Kanada
Nisar Hussain Khan – Nayaki Kanada
Nivruttibuwa Sarnaik – Ramkali
Padmavati Shaligram – Jaijaivanti
Prasun Bannerjee – Kafi Kanada
Radhika Mohan Maitra – Alakananda
Ravi Kichlu – Bagehsree – (Live Alap)
“Bahram Gur Sees a Herd of Deer Mesmerized by Dilaram’ s Music”, Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi. Attributed to Miskin (active ca. 1570–1604). Folio from an illustrated manuscript, 1597–98, India. Click image for larger view.
Approximately one century after the Persian poet Nizami wrote his Khamsa (Quintet), the Indian poet Amir Khusrau Dihlavi composed a response using Nizami’s structure but varying his stories slightly. This painting comes from the Mughal emperor Akbar’s (r. 1556–1605) personal copy of Amir Khusrau’s verses. It shows the king Bahram Gur with his beautiful slave girl, Dilaram, who could make animals sleep or awaken with the sound of her music. —metmuseum
An Orange–Headed Ground Thrush and a Death’s-Head Moth on an Orchid Branch, Shaikh Zain al–Din, 1778, India. Click image for larger view.
via metmuseum
American Crow. Illustration: Ralph Steadman. Click image for larger view.
Reimagining the American Crow
In the creative mind of Ralph Steadman, the corvid channels independence.
Hendrik Voogd — Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines (1807)
Pablo Picasso, She-Goat, 1950.
Visit this page for more Picasso sculptures and a podcast on them.
Two Orioles, Mughal, North India, c. 1610
Two Orioles, Mughal, North India, c. 1610. This composition is closely related to European botanical and natural history studies which had begun to reach the Mughal court by the late 16th century. The upper bird is a male Indian Golden Oriole (Oriolus kundoo), the lower bird a male Black-hooded Oriole (Oriolus xanthornus).
via Jameel Centre
Adjutant Stork (Leptoptilos dubius) by Shaikh Zain ud-Din, c. 1780.
Adjutant Stork (Leptoptilos dubius) by Shaikh Zain ud-Din, c. 1780 – Lady Impey’s Indian Bird Paintings
Painting of a Mouse, by Shibata Zeshin. Click image for larger view.
Sloth Bear by Haludar (1805)
How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin, when Aladdin rubbed his lamp. — T. H. Huxley (1866).
Altaf Hussain Khan – Sughrai
Amiya Ranjan Bandyopadhyay – Todi (Old recording)
Anant Manohar Joshi – Samant Sarang
Arnab Chakrabarty – Yaman
Arnab Chakraborty – Anandi (Alap and Jor)
Azmat Hussain Khan – Basant (Demo)
Bade Amanat Ali Khan – Megh
Barkat Ali Khan – Aah Ko Chahiye (Ghalib)
Basavaraj Rajguru – Todi
Chote Ghulam Ali Khan – Devgiri Bilawal (Radio Pakistan)
Faiyaz Khan – Nat Behag (Alap)
Ghulam Hassan Shaggan – Vibhas
Gopal Mishra and V.G. Jog – Jaijaivanti
Gopeshwar Bandyopadhyay – Nat Malhar
Gyan Prakash Babu and V. G. Jog – Shudh Sarang
Ijaz Hussain Hazarvi – Na Kissi Ki Ankh Ka Noor HooN
Imrat Khan and Afaq Hussain – Kalavati
Jagdish Prasad – Bhimpalasi
Khadim Hussain Khan – Roop Kali
Krishnarao Shankar Pandit – Sohni
Kumar Mukherjee – Khammaj (Farhat Said Khan Collection)
Latafat Hussain Khan – Shankara
Malabika Kanan – Shahana
Manzoor Ali Khan – Gaur Sarang (Khayal and Tarana)
Sharif Khan Poonchwaley and Bashir Ahmed – Hamsadhwani
M. R. Gautam – Mand (Tappa)
Mubarak Ali Khan (Bade Ghulam Ali Khan’s brother) – Ghazal (Radio Sringar)
Mushtaq Ali Khan – Behag (AIR)
Nazakat Ali and Salamat Ali – Ramdasi Malhar
Nazakat Ali Khan – Asavari
Padmavati Shaligram – Jaijaivanti
Pannalal Ghosh – Puriya
Prasun Bandyopadhyay – Abhogi
Radhika Mohan Moitra – Chhaya Behag
Rais Khan and Bashir Khan – Shyam Kedar (1966)
Rashid Khan – Barwa
Ravi Kichlu and V.G. Jog – Behag (Farhat Said Khan’s Collection)
Roshanara Begum – ShudhSarang (78RPM)
Saptarshi Hazra – Jaunpuri
Saraswatibai Faterpekar – Basant
Shahbaz Hussain – Teentaal
Shaukat Hussain Khan – Teentaal (Mehfil)
Sultan Khan – Patdeep
Swami Vallabhdas – Nat Behg
Vilayat Khan – Lalit
Printed between 1827 and 1838, John James Audubon’s Birds of America is considered to be the archetype of wildlife illustration. It contains 435 life-sized watercolours of North American birds. View all hand-engraved plates and high-resolution downloads here.
Niccolò Paganini: Caprice No. 9 in E major “The Hunt / La chasse” (Allegretto)
Violinist: Vadim Tchijik
Tuesday 7th April 2015 at Serena Hotel, Islamabad
Based on my own and my patients’ experiences, I now like to say that the story of loss has three “chapters.” Chapter 1 has to do with attachment: the strength of the bond with the person who has been lost. Understanding the relationship between degree of attachment and intensity of grief brings great relief for most patients. I often tell them that the size of their grief corresponds to the depth of their love.
Chapter 2 is the death event itself. This is often the moment when the person experiencing the loss begins to question his sanity, particularly when the death is premature and traumatic. Mary had prided herself on her ability to stay in control in difficult times. The profound emotional chaos of her baby’s death made her feel crazy. As soon as she was able, she resisted the craziness and shut down the natural pain and suffering.
Chapter 3 is the long road that begins after the last casserole dish is picked up — when the outside world stops grieving with you. Mary wanted to reassure her family, friends and herself that she was on the fast track to closure. This was exhausting. What she really needed was to let herself sink into her sadness, accept it.
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“All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story or tell a story about them,” said the writer Isak Dinesen. When loss is a story, there is no right or wrong way to grieve. There is no pressure to move on. There is no shame in intensity or duration. Sadness, regret, confusion, yearning and all the experiences of grief become part of the narrative of love for the one who died.
Brown Dipper by Ustad Mansur; Mughal era, c. 1620; metmuseum.org | Click image for larger view.
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Here is a music collection compiled by Aftab Datta for sarangi.info‘s tenth birthday. We hope you like listening to it as much as we do.
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana”.
Afzal Khan – Kafi (Ghulam Farid)
Amir Khan -_Puriya (Live in Indore)
Arnab Chakraborty -_Kedar
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan – Todi (Radio Pakistan; Farhat Said Khan’s Collection)
Barin Majumder – Nat Bihag
Barkat Ali Khan – Dadra Khamaj (Dadra)
Bashir Khan -_Gujri Todi
Begum Akhtar – Kaushik Dhuni (Calcutta Music Circle 1974, Farhat Said Khan’s Collection
Bhimsen Joshi – Suha (Live)
Ejaz Husaain Hazarvi -_Khirad Mandon Se Kya Poochhon (Ghazal)
Faiyaz Khan – Bheem
Fayyaz Khan & Sharafat Hussain Khan – Darbari (Farhat Said Khan’s Collection)
Gajananrao Joshi_Basant (Violin)
Ghulam Shabbir & Jaffer Khan – Bairagi Todi
Gopal Mishra – Miyan ki Malhar
Govind Prasad Jaipurwale – Megh
Habib Ali – Bhairavi
Hafiz Ali Khan – Aimen
Hamid Hussain – Thumri
Hanif Khan – Shudh Sarang
Hirabai Barodekar – Multani
Ilyas Hussain Khan – Chandini Kedar
Imrat Khan & Vilayat Khan – Jog
Jagannathbuwa Purohit – Hindol
Khadim Hussain – Miyan Ki Malhar (Dhrupad)
Kumar Mukerjee – Miyan Ki Malhar (Farhat Said Khan’s Collection)
Latafat Hussain Khan – Lalit (Mehfil)
Majid Khan – Puriya Dhaneshree (Nazir Khan’s Collection)
Malabika Kanan – Gaud Sarang (Farhat Said Khan’s Collection)
Malini Rajurkar – Sohni (Tarana)
Mallikarjun Mansur – Shudh Sarang
Mehdi Hassan – Bihag (Chautaranag)
Moinuddin & Aminuddin Dagar – Lalit
Mukhtar Begum – Pilu (Thumri)
Mumtaz Sabzal -_Malkauns (Benjo)
Mushtaq Ali Khan – Bhopali
Natai Basu – Dhani
Nazakat Ali & Salamat Ali Khan – Hamir Kalyan
Nazakat Ali & Salamat Ali Khan – Bilaskhani Barwa
Nazakat Ali Khan – Lalit
Nazar Hussain – Jaijaivanti
Nirmal Guha Thakurata – Lalit
Nisar Hussain – Bhairavi (Tarana)
Pushparaj Koshti – Bageshree
Qadir Ali Faridi – Lankadhan Sarang
Rais Khan – Kaunsi Kanada (1968; Farhat Said Khan’s Collection)
Rasoolanbai – Piya Milan Hum Jayibo (Chaiti)
Ravi Kichlu & V.G. Jog – Barwa (Farhat Said Khan’s Collection)
Roshanara Begum – Shudh Sarang (78rpm)
Sadiq Ali Beenkar – Shankara
Saeen Ditta – Tilang
Safdar Hussain Khan – Khamaj (Thumri)
Ghulam Hassan Shaggan – Purvi (version 2.0)
Shahbaz Hussain – Teentaal (Lehra: Zohaib Hassan)
Shahida Parveen -_Nindiya Lagi (Thumri)
Sharafat Ali Khan – Shiraz
Sharafat Hussain Khan – Shudh Sarang
Wahid Hussain – Sarang
Yeshwant Rai Purohit – Malkauns (More Ghar Aailo Balama)
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