Know what I've been tripping on this past month?
Ghawwalis! (ugh, I know, I know!)
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and group have sung a whole lot of ghazals by Ghalib as qawwalis and what fun they are!
As it happens with qawwalis, they sing the main ghazal through but now and then pick up key words from the preceding sher and intersperse with couplets from elsewhere, either stressing the sentiment, or taking off from it on another tangent altogether.
These are the efforts, I understand, of Yousuf Salahuddin, culture-lover from Lahore, under a series called Virsa Heritage Revived
I share here two videos:
1) Rahat and co singing Koi umeed bar nahin aati
2) A full concert called Nawa-e-sarosh with four qawwalis
Caution: Dost ghamkhwari mein meri is a potential ear-worm! I haven't thrown it off in days.
Ghawwalis! (ugh, I know, I know!)
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and group have sung a whole lot of ghazals by Ghalib as qawwalis and what fun they are!
As it happens with qawwalis, they sing the main ghazal through but now and then pick up key words from the preceding sher and intersperse with couplets from elsewhere, either stressing the sentiment, or taking off from it on another tangent altogether.
These are the efforts, I understand, of Yousuf Salahuddin, culture-lover from Lahore, under a series called Virsa Heritage Revived
I share here two videos:
1) Rahat and co singing Koi umeed bar nahin aati
2) A full concert called Nawa-e-sarosh with four qawwalis
Caution: Dost ghamkhwari mein meri is a potential ear-worm! I haven't thrown it off in days.
