Romancing the rain
Two Punjabi poems on the monsoons of memories.
The first, Saavan Langh Gaya, is by Shiv Kumar Batalvi. He has, no doubt, been done to death (death being his subject of choice) by just about every Punjabi crooner, dead or alive. This poem is not one of his better-known ones; yet, I feel it captures the spirit of longing exceptionally well without a ton of sentimentality.
Much thanks to Gurpreet Singh of Jalandhar, India who agreed to let me use the very beautiful pictures of Phulkari for the background. ( Gurpreet’s photostream on Flickr can be accessed here )
The second poem, Pehlaa Saaun , is one of mine that I recited at the Montreal Kavi Darbar on October 30, 2010.
The painting in the background is a late 18th century piece from the Kangra School of Art in the Museum of Fine Art Boston collection, that I happened to discover at this site. It has all the elements : the dark-clouds, lightning, one damsel in distress, two trees in a violent, erotic embrace and three snakes to add that extra zing. Forget about the newly-wed bride; I am scared.
Many thanks again to Prasad Upasani for iTablaPro – a Pandora’s box of musical possibilities, that lets me have this much fun.
The first, Saavan Langh Gaya, is by Shiv Kumar Batalvi. He has, no doubt, been done to death (death being his subject of choice) by just about every Punjabi crooner, dead or alive. This poem is not one of his better-known ones; yet, I feel it captures the spirit of longing exceptionally well without a ton of sentimentality.
Much thanks to Gurpreet Singh of Jalandhar, India who agreed to let me use the very beautiful pictures of Phulkari for the background. ( Gurpreet’s photostream on Flickr can be accessed here )
The second poem, Pehlaa Saaun , is one of mine that I recited at the Montreal Kavi Darbar on October 30, 2010.
The painting in the background is a late 18th century piece from the Kangra School of Art in the Museum of Fine Art Boston collection, that I happened to discover at this site. It has all the elements : the dark-clouds, lightning, one damsel in distress, two trees in a violent, erotic embrace and three snakes to add that extra zing. Forget about the newly-wed bride; I am scared.
Many thanks again to Prasad Upasani for iTablaPro – a Pandora’s box of musical possibilities, that lets me have this much fun.
posted by kulpreet at 10:48 PM
5 Comments:
Dear Kulpreet ji
Beautiful as usual, both your singing as well as the video part. You are truly talented!
Regards,
Prasad
Beautiful....it is a welcome change from the all the crooners and even from Jagjit Singh (ਜਿਸਦੀ ਸ਼ਕਲ ਇਂਵੇ ਹੈ ਜਿਂਵੇ ਠੰਡੀ ਦਾਲ ਵਿਚ ਘੇ)
Satnam Doad
Thanks for the kind words, Prasad. iTablaPro does make the experimentation easy and fun.
Kulpreet - My brother plays excellent tabla and some dilruba. Hook up with him, He's in Ottawa - his name is Satpreet. You're singing is great and I hope to hear more from you in the future. Manmeet.
thanks manmeet - always nice to know others who share the tabla obsession. Will track him down.
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