Sufi Songs of Love from India and Iran - Field Recordings by Master Ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya
[EUCD1563]

CD Information • CD Title: Sufi Songs of Love from India and Iran • Artist(s): Field Recordings by Master Ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya • CD Code: EUCD1563 • Tracks: 6 • Playing Time: 59:25 min • Booklet Info in: English, Spanish, German

This album presents live recordings made in Benares (India), Srinagar (Kashmir) and Teheran (Iran) in 1955, 1979 and 1999. Some pieces are played on a harmonium, accompanied by a dholak, a barrel drum, others on santoor, sitar and tabla or a pair of Iranian goblet drums called Zarb. The booklets gives information about the history, the music and the instruments used. A very interesting CD and an important sound document.

Track Listing:

India

1. Lamhat akhiri mere (I am speaking my final words as my time is coming to its end) - 7:45

2. Gam sabhi raahte (My sorrows turn into joy) - 10:50

3. Ham Gulame Khwaja (O Khwaja, I am wholly at your service) - 14:50

4. Muqam-i-Bahar (Sufi love song, sung in the Spring season raga named 'Bahar') - 6:35

5. Muqam-i-Rast Kashmiri (A Sufi song sung in the midnight mode 'Rast Kashmiri') - 5:55

Iran

6. Baba Karam (Sufi love song belonging to the folk traditions of the south of Teheran) - 12:30