What starts out as an innocent sounding wedding song turns out rather startlingly to be a song of death. Kabir maps the moment when a girl is being taken away by her new husband exactly on to the moment when we are taken away by death from all things we hold dear and familiar. The soul is a young trembling girl, experiencing the terror of loss, the fear of the unknown, the regret of unfulfilled desires and the obstinate denial of the ultimate reality of death.
The late Padma Ram ji renders this song with a quiet sombreness, charmingly offset by the younger Bhugde Khan taking unabashed delight in the song with the playing of his wooden castanets (khadtaal)! Padma Ram ji is one of the older respected generation of Meghval singers of Kabir, Mira and other bhakti poets from Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.
(Click on Settings for subtitles in English & Hindi.)
This is one of a series of uploads for Ajab Shahar, an upcoming webspace featuring songs, images and conversations around bhakti, sufi and baul poetry, currently under construction by the Kabir Project team.
Song Credits:
Tambura & Vocals: Padma Ram
Dholak: Pappe Khan
Khadtaal: Bhugde Khan
English Translation: Shabnam Virmani
Video Credits:
Camera: Shabnam Virmani
Editing: Sharanya Gautam
Sub-Titling: Mamta Kandari & Shabnam Virmani
Collection: The Kabir Project
Date of Recording: 2004
Place: Bikaner
Δεν υπάρχουν σχόλια:
Δημοσίευση σχολίου