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Baddi Geet - Songs of the Baddi Community of Garhwal
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Epic Singing of Garhwal - The Story of Kirthipal and Kunjepal
This album contains three episodes from the Pawara of Kirthipal and Kunjepal, which narrates the lives of the two brothers of Thati Silla Kot.
Pawaras are sung at night, and the audience joins the lead singer in certain portions of the performance. The singing is accompanied by the playing of the hurki, an ho...
This album contains three episodes from the Pawara of Kirthipal and Kunjepal, which narrates the lives of the two brothers of Thati Silla Kot.
Pawaras are sung at night, and the audience joins the lead singer in certain portions of the performance. The singing is accompanied by the playing of the hurki, an hourglass drum, and the thali, a metal plate played by two sticks. The audience responds by singing an elongated vowel, called a bhaun...
This album contains three episodes from the Pawara of Kirthipal and Kunjepal, which narrates the lives of the two brothers of Thati Silla Kot.
Pawaras are sung at night, and the audience joins the lead singer in certain portions of the performance. The singing is accompanied by the playing of the hurki, an hourglass drum, and the thali, a metal plate played by two sticks. The audience responds by singing an elongated vowel, called a bhaun, at the ends of many phrases. At other times they repeat text fragments from the end of the singers lines. The performance includes sung recitations of the story line as well as songs for dancing.
The main singer of this album is Bhag Chand, a hurkiya from Garhwal in the Central Himalayas. Bhag Chand sings pawaras (heroic epic tales) and jagarn (songs that awaken deities) as a vocation. He lives in the village of Naogaon, which is located in the district of Pauri in the state of Uttarakhand.
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Flutes of Rajasthan - Music of the Surnaiya Langa
This album showcases a range of wind instruments played by Karim Khan Langa and Mala Khan Langa of the Surnaiya Langa, one of the hereditary castes of musicians of Western Rajasthan. They are part of the Jajmani patronage system, and are musicians of the Sindhi Sipahi, a herding community. Surnaiya Langa p...
This album showcases a range of wind instruments played by Karim Khan Langa and Mala Khan Langa of the Surnaiya Langa, one of the hereditary castes of musicians of Western Rajasthan. They are part of the Jajmani patronage system, and are musicians of the Sindhi Sipahi, a herding community. Surnaiya Langa play only wind instruments, though they play the sarinda, a stringed instrument, as an accompaniment to wind instruments. Karim Khan i...
This album showcases a range of wind instruments played by Karim Khan Langa and Mala Khan Langa of the Surnaiya Langa, one of the hereditary castes of musicians of Western Rajasthan. They are part of the Jajmani patronage system, and are musicians of the Sindhi Sipahi, a herding community. Surnaiya Langa play only wind instruments, though they play the sarinda, a stringed instrument, as an accompaniment to wind instruments. Karim Khan is one of the foremost musicians of this community. Mala Khan, his brother is one of the few Surnaiya Langas who play the narh.
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