| Sounds of Bengali Baul & Spirituals from the 60's San Francisco, U.S.A. |  | Creator: Bengal Folk Band
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Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 776098999020
EAN: 0776098999020
Release Date: December 1, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | 6 "OM ... Rama Raghava Rama Raghava" (Aparna Devi) | | • | "Bole Hari Bole - Hari Hari Bole" (Aparna Devi) | | • | "Kesava koro koruna diney" (Aparna Devi) | | • | "Aami ki herilaam" (Aparna Devi) | | • | Dance music of Hena Lalita's dancing | | • | "Bhola mone, O' Bhola mone re" (Gopal Chatterjee) | | • | "Chore hoilo dokandar..." (Gopal Chatterjee) | | • | "Srimati Radharani" (Pralhad Bramhachari) |
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Album Description
Sounds of Bengali Baul & Spirituals from the 60's San Francisco, U.S.A. This band was assembled 30 years ago when these recording were made on 1/4" reel-to-reel audio tape. This group of musicians arrived in the Fall of 1969. This music CD contains some recordings as they performed for television, radio, schools, colleges, universities and special programmes.
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| Customer Reviews:
Ashok's Greatest Achievement October 29, 2001
Tim Hitchner (Vancouver, British Columbia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had the good fortune to interview Ashok Sarkar for a radio profile I produced about him in Vancouver three years ago. At that time this CD was just under production, and consisted of only a box of reel to reel tapes in his office that he had lovingly preserved and stored for the last thirty years. I was presented with my copy personally from his hands, and upon listening to it with him for the first time in his office, I told him it was the greatest thing he'd accomplished in his career. He has worked on many film projects and other culturally based endeavours over the years. But in a way, his greatest contribution to the West has been as an ambassador of this music. Little known outside of Bengal, the Bauls were basically rediscovered by Rabindranath Tagore, and are known by their songs and their living example. The Bauls that you see today were mainly peasants and manual laborers in Bengal. They live their lives according to a natural way that is, as they say, that of a "man of heart." They also sing from the heart, and are mostly wandering mendicants, primarily living on what they are offered by villagers in return for their songs. Those familiar with the work of Subal Das Baul and others like him whose recordings are available in the West will find the same spirit here. Ashok Sarkar is one who almost single-handedly brought this music to the West just at the time in the 60's when interest in this type of music found a fertile garden in the minds and hearts of Western young people. Tuned into this scene, Ashok was able to call people like Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary friends. Familiarity with the story of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu will help you in terms of background research, found in the "Chaitanya Charitamrita", an important Bengali religious text. Baul music is rare indeed in the West; Some Western artists like Jai Uttal are taking the Baul spirit and "Westernizing" it in a very interesting way, but to get to the root of the REAL Baul experience, I can think of no better introduction than this CD.
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