| Sultana - Kusu Kalkmaz |
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http://sultana.calabashmusic.com/
Wondering just what Sultana's 'Kusu Kalkmaz'
is REALLY about? It means literally 'Your
Bird Can't Fly' and is a double entendre for
sexual performance. The song castigates men
who bully and neglect their wives while
gratifying themselves with hookers. The
message is righteous enough, but the video
caused sufficient controversy to be banned on
Turkish television.
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Durée : 257 s |
| Begum Parveen Sultana: Queen of Indian classical music |
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Vocals -- Parveen Sultana
Tabla -- Mukundraj Deo
Harmonium - Shrinivas Acharaya
The 'Queen of Indian classical music', the
"Poetess of Music' and the 'Ultimate
Saprano', Parveen Sultana is one of the most
influential female khayal vocalists of the
modern era. She has a distinctively sweet
voice, which displays an incredible
virtuosity, clarity and purity, and covers a
range of nearly four octaves. A child prodigy
at the age of 12, she has one numerous
awards, and mesmerized audiences throughout
the world.
In this evening's performance to bring this
year's festival to a fitting close, she is
accompanied by Yogesh Samsi on Tabla, Ajay
Joglekar on Harmonium, Sandeep Mishra on
Sarangi and Nina Virdee -- talented vocalist
in her own right on Tanpura.
"Her matchless voice ..... held the audience
spellbound" (The Times of India)
"Not since Ravi Shankar's music took America
by storm has the audience been treated to
such a musical feast as Parveen's music...
the audience stood up applauding
thunderously" (News and Cine India Review,
New York, USA)
"We forget ourselves in the extraordinary and
spiritual and blessed voice of Parveen
Sultana. We do not need to think twice about
her unrivalled position as one of the greats
in terms of purity of voice". (Kerala
Kaumudi, India)
"Her voice flowed like a light, soothing
breeze and the crowd was swayed by it"
(Mathru Bhoomi, India)
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Affichage : 109086
Durée : 279 s |
| Begum Parveen Sultana, Awesome Bhajan |
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Vocals -- Begum Parveen Sultana
Tabla -- Mukundraj Deo
Harmonium - Shrinivas Acharaya
CD1
Raga Maru Behag
1. Alap
2. Bada Khayal
3. Chotta Khayal
CD2
1. Tarana in Raga Hansadhwani
2. Meera Bhajan - Mai to Lino Govind Mol
3. Bhajan -- Sai Ram Sai Ram
4. Bhairavi -- Dayani Bhairavi
Buy online at www.senseworldmusic.com
Bhajans are deeply rooted in the Indian
tradition. Bhajan is a song form using
soulful language expressing surrender to God.
Many bhajans are rooted in the hymns found in
the Sama Veda, the third Veda in the Hindu
scriptures. Some of India's most loved
bhajans were composed by the poetess Meera
(track 2). Born in the sixteenth century at a
time of political and social unrest in India,
Meera having lost her father, husband and
father-in-law sought peace and dedicated her
life to Lord Krishna. She composed hundreds
of poems in a simple and unpretentious
language capturing the beauty of her intense
and deep love to God. Bhajans are also often
loosely based on the melodic phrases of
Ragas; in this case Sai Ram Sai Ram (track 3)
carries a strong sense of Ragas Kirvani and
Shivranjani. The recital aptly concludes with
Bhairavi, an auspicious and deeply devotional
raga traditionally sung to conclude the
concert performance.
Notes: John Ball
John Ball is a practicing musician and
musicologist based at the University of
Sheffield, UK
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Affichage : 112179
Durée : 296 s |
| Parveen Sultana - Raag Hansadvani - Tarana |
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Begum Parveen Sultana ranks today as one of
the foremost classical vocalists in India. A
child prodigy, she was the youngest artist to
receive the Padmashri award, in 1972, from
the Government of India.
She received her early training from her
father Ikramul Majid and her grandfather
Mohammed Najeef Khan. Both were ardent music
lovers and their nurturing of her talent at
an early age enabled her to give her first
recital at the tender age of twelve and from
then on, there has been no looking back! Her
father then put her under the guidance of
renowned maestro Acharya Chinmoy Lahiri of
Calcutta.
Parveen Sultana subsequently found the Guru
who further laid down a much deeper
foundation that gave a new dimension to her
singing, giving it the required mastery of
ragas and voice culture that would expand her
range to three and a half octaves, Ustad
Dilshad Khan, her Guru and husband.
Parveen Sultana was trained according to the
Patiala Gharana (School of Music), but with
Ustadji's guidance the essence of other
Gharanas flowed into her music. She handles,
with utter ease, a simple raga as well as a
complicated one, moving from the slow Alaap
to the swift Taans and Bol Taans, her immense
confidence highlighting the most beautiful
essence of the raga. Whether she sings a
Khyal, Thumri or Bhajan, she keeps the form
in its pristine purity.
Many awards have come her way. Parveen
Sultana has been called the Melody Queen and
has received numerous awards: 'Cleopatra of
Music' (1970), 'Poetess of Music' (1972),
'Gandharva Kalanidhi' (1980), 'Mia Tansen'
(1986) and 'Sangeet Samragni' (1994). She has
also performed in major festivals and venues
in India, USA, Europe and Australia.
Parveen Sultana has recorded for HMV,
Polydor, Music India, Bharat Records,
Auvidis, Magnasound, Sonodisc, Amigo.
Association Sargam is privileged to have
represented Begum Parveen Sultana, as also
her Guruji Ustad Dilshad Khan, since 1984 on
innumerable European tours. She is the
'Ultimate Soprano', applauded for both her
outstanding musicality and breathtaking
virtuosity.
Parveen Sultana and Ustad Dilshad Khan
Press Extracts:
'With a paradoxical mixture of abandon and
control, she masterfully expressed those
subtleties of human emotion which could only
ever find their expression in music (London
1991)
'She has risen to be the Queen of Hindustani
Music' (Kerala Kaumudi)
'Her voice rings out uninhibited, clear,
strong and firm. The audience thunders its
applause.... the ultimate Soprano.' (Eve's
Weekly, India)
'Unspoilt genius of Hindustani Music' (India
Weekly, London, 1997).
'There was an ecstatic spiritual quality to
her voice, from the first note to the last,
it was a keening paean of devotion to beauty,
light, love, and the Inner Self' (Zameen, UK
1997)
'The concert by Begum Sultana was magical!
(Audience member, Royal Festival Hall (QEH),
London 1997)
"Her matchless voice ..... held the audience
spellbound" (The Times of India)
"Now there is nothing her voice cannot do -
the timbre, the sweep, the range soaring
higher than even the third octave but
remaining as clear and pleasant... her
rendering of ragas has acquired a greater
depth and variation especially under the
guidance of Dilshad Khan" (Indian Express,
India)
"Not since Ravi Shankar's music took America
by storm has the audience been treated to
such a musical feast as Parveen's music...
the audience stood up applauding
thunderously" (News and Cine India Review,
New York, USA)
"Parveen Sultana is among the cognoscenti,
the household word... it is the voice that
seduces the listener into approval..."
(Indian Express, India)
"Breathtaking virtuosity over a range of four
to five octaves... European music does not
know anything comparable" (Hamburg
Abendblatt, Germany)
"When people communicate by means of genuine
art, they hardly need any interpreters. The
old truth has been brilliantly confirmed by
the triumphal tour of the Soviet Union of
Indian popular performers Ustad Dilshad Khan
and Begum Parveen Sultana". (USSR Youth
Times)
"We forget ourselves in the extraordinary and
spiritual and blessed voice of Parveen
Sultana. We do not need to think twice about
her unrivalled position as one of the greats
in terms of purity of voice". (Kerala
Kaumudi, India)
"Her voice flowed like a light, soothing
breeze and the crowd was swayed by it"
(Mathru Bhoomi, India)
"As for her music credentials, they have been
compared to that of Enrico Caruso. She makes
the difficult art of classical music
comprehensive, melodious and delightful"
(Tribune, London, UK)
'With a paradoxical mixture of abandon and
control, she masterfully expressed those
subtleties of human emotion which could only
ever find their expression in music". (DJ,
London, UK)
"And what an exquisite tunefulness attended
her every note charged with feeling... at
such superspeed and with such hairline
accuracy that one felt (one) had not heard
better". (Times of India)
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Affichage : 41063
Durée : 301 s |
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