Music

“kaun sahab nu aakhe ke inj nahi inj kar” (Literal translation is: Who can dare tell God that do it like this, not like that ?) How truly someone has put it in just a few words. A very very sad day for music and the music lovers. The “one man army”, the captain of Indian Ghazal singing Jagjit Singh is no more. And even sadder is the thing that there is no-one to carry forward his legacy. His untimely demise marks the end of an era in the Indian music. There is no one like him, of the same status, same repute. In our sub continent also, there are very few names; Mehdi Hasan already stopped singing due to his health. At this moment the singing in 2 countries was being headed by Ghulam Ali & Jagjit Singh and one of them just left us. I can’t describe in words what a tremendous loss it is. Only a month back, we saw him perform live with Ghulam Ali and I was not at all happy with his performance and complained a lot about it. Because I wanted him to sing the classics he created. I feel lucky to have seen him perform live thrice in my life. I can’t just accept that he is no more with us. ...

My friend Neeraj sent me an sms in the morning and then i replied and so on. That made a pretty funny conversation. I thought about posting it here :D ;). So here goes the conversation. Him Man everytime i ask for songs u burn same Dvd from ur laptop songs. U did this 3 times and i hv 3 versions of same songs. Me :)))))))))) That bloody means u r playing that dvd now :D ...

Few days ago, while going through some videos on youtube i came across a song ve asan tainu ki aakhna by Masooma Anwar. Oh boy what a voice ! She is studying MBBS and taking up singing along with the studies. Then she renders legendary Reshma’s ve main chori chori ...

Challa apne Punjab de folk music di ik nishani hai…bhawein oh Inayat Ali ne gaya hove ya Shaukat Ali ne te bhave Reshma ga rahi hove ya Gurdas Maan…challe di tone jhatt pachani jandi hai…bada time pehlan Gurdas Maan de yahoo group te sade ik member ne challe di translation cum explanation post kiti c. oh hu bu hu main ethe post kar riha. eh ik post di taran b nahi likhia hoya bas rough jehi explanation hai: ...

kuch aise lok b milde ne jihde kehan nu tan punjabi ne par punjabi music baare na te uhna nu kuch pata, na kade sunia te shayad ese wajah karke na hi koi shauk hai…oh bas kacha pilla hindi te angreji sun ke khush ne…samjh b pata nahi aaunda hai k bas avein sir maari jande ne… 20 k saal pehlan musarrat nazir ne (je kise nu nahi pata te oh ik pakistani punjabi singer hai….) gana gaya c “mera long gwacha”…bally sagoo wala tan sab ne dekhia/sunia hona par ehda nai pata….kal mainu es gaane da video milia youtube te….jihde loki kehnde ne punjabi music te avein hi hai…zara ah video dekho te fer bolio kuch….asi apna virsa e rol ta…bahar de hava lai k khush ho gaye….har ik nu meri guzarish hai k eh video jaroor dekhio and fer apni feedback deo…jad tak sade kol eddan de singer ne…punjabi music hamesha rahega…bas lod hai pukaar sunan di te gwacha hoya long labhan di… ...

Someone has rightly said “Money can’t buy happiness”. One may not believe this but watching 2 videos made my day and gave me a ton of happiness. I stumbled upon one video of Musarat Nazir on youtube and then i saw mera long gwacha’s video, done by her on PTV in 1985-86. My lifetime favourite song which i have grown up listening to. The voice, tone ,music reminds of those beautiful old days. It used to play mostly on radio channels like Jalandhar, All India Radio and Lahore. When i got computer at home, i recorded this song by placing microphone near radio speaker and today i got to watch that video. Plain awesome…real singing with soul and emotions. ...

Attaullah Khan has been one of my favourite singers since i started listening to music. Today i watched a ghazal sab maya hai on youtube. Its written by Insha and rendered beautifully bu Attaullah Khan. A must watch if you are a good music admirer: Then i watched another video of the same ghazal which seems to be a newly recorded one. I was so sad to see that Attaullah Khan is getting older. The difference in his voice is clearly visible. ...

On Gurdas Maan forum, I got a link to a video on youtube. When I checked, it was a song by Sai Zahoor Ahmed, a sufi singer (or performer ?) from Pakistan. This man left home at the young age of 13 and started roaming the sufi shrines in Pakistan. He sings on ik-tara. He can’t read or write but has very good memory of lyrics. He was chosen best BBC voice of the year 2006. I just went mad about “sajna baajho zaat safatan ishq dian” video. Its just awesome. He is 60 years old and see him performing, totally lost in his work. It looks like he is directly talking to Allah. Hats off to these messengers of sufi gaayaki. ...