Great research article in Bengali about Nabani Das Khyapa Baul !

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https://indiafolkheritageofbengal.weebly.com

Link Below: article in Anada Bazare Newspaper Calcutta Bengal India.

In Bengali Language!

https://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/rabibashoriyo/story-of-nabani-das-baul-father-of-purna-das-baul-article-by-moushumi-bhowmik-1.1193096?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily&fbclid=IwAR1wPH1Va2tjyjDZ2ljwvcMj08__VoewgHWURYW_0r5Olhjnjikas76AK94

Google Translate in English, it may not be correct or mistranslate in some parts?

Any sound and hearing story has two main points of view or perspectives, maybe even more. From where the words originate, a story can be told in a way. And the one who listens has a story too. There are three main perspectives in this story of mine, which is why I am telling the story of recorded sound. One, who is the source of the sound, i.e. the one who is singing. Two, who is recording. Three, he who hears. Again, the one who is recording is also listening. As a result, the matter is complicated. These perspectives are not isolated, not singular, but interrelated, and all together form a story.

Started the story with my listening, went back there. For twenty years I went to the sound archives of the British Library and listened to various recordings. With sound recordist Sukant Majumdar, we created an ongoing research and field recording-based archive and website called 'The Traveling Archive' (www.thetravellingarchive.org), which was almost done. In the beginning, I used to listen to random recordings, write things down in a notebook with a pencil. While doing so, one day I saw a reference to a Baul song called Achintya Dasi in the catalogue, a 1932 recording in Kenduli, recorded on a wax cylinder or wax cylinder, by Arnold Bucke.

Bakke (1899-1963) was a native of Holland, came to Santiniketan in 1925 to study. After studying, he traveled around the country and returned to Bengal with the recording instrument phonograph. His field recording phase began in 1931 and continued for the rest of his life. He traveled all over India and recorded songs, also in Nepal and Sri Lanka. He last came this way in 1956 on a recording expedition to Nepal, then also went to Kolkata, Santiniketan. I didn't know all this in the beginning. Didn't know what the wax cylinder thing was, didn't know how to pronounce Bucke's name.

In 2013, I formally started my doctorate at the School of Cultural Texts and Records of Jadavpur University on wax cylinders recorded by Arnold Buck in various parts of Bengal between 1931 and 1934. When or where that eternal Ph.D. will end, I don't know. But this job has undoubtedly enriched my life.

While several researchers have worked on Arnold Bucke's South Indian recordings and Nepalese recordings, it is perhaps from the Traveling Archives that we begin to study his work in Bengal. We had an exhibition of our work in London in 2015. The British Library was our partner in that. In the same year, the British Library and SOAS jointly started a research project on Bakke's Bengali recordings. As a result of that research, I began to see changes in the Buckeye catalog that I was wondering about. I applied to Arnold Bucke in 2018 to see his own notes on the recording. Then they gave me an appointment for one day, I can see the documents sitting in the house of the chief curator of 'World and Traditional Music'.

That day I am sitting in that particular room looking at various papers. Faded typed and handwritten documents, including a report from a 1956 visit. I started reading. Bakke writes in English, 'It was my good fortune that soon after arriving in Calcutta on 24th February we found a folk music festival and there I recorded some songs of the Vaishnava Bauls... I went to Santiniketan about 20 years later. I recorded a Rabindranath song in the voice of Rabindranath's niece, she is now 82 years old.'

I am shaking after reading this. I know about Ravithakure's Bhaijhi song. And not recording on wax cylinders, the new reel-to-reel (spool) machine Indira Devi Chaudhurani's 'Katbar Bhebechinu' was recorded, before the start of that song I heard Bakke say, 'Start'. And he recorded Chitralekha Chowdhury's 'Amal Dhabal Pale Lagh Mand Madhur Hawa'. That song flying white clouds, what light, what transparent! Kishori Chitralekha's mind is written on the recording.

But the song of the bowlers? I ask lead curator Janet Topp Farzion. Janet calls their Bakke-researcher Christian Poske. He then said, there is a book recording that day! Show me two files, C52/NEP/67 and C52/NEP/68. The original visit at that time was for research purposes in Nepal, hence the file name 'NEP'. Janet let me listen to the song in her home on her computer. From the few notes that are written in the notes of the recording, I know that the recording took place on February 29 and March 1. Earlier all Bengali recordings were of two and a half or three minutes, this is the first time I am getting two tracks of fifteen minutes each.

the artist

First song, khamak with song, voice with khamak, voice with ghungur — all very familiar!

Watch watch mind, be aware

Life is not taken like a thief.

Another voice in the next song. Impossible Energy, 'Gurupade Prem Bhakti Holo Na', but not in a familiar tune. Then another track, C52/NEP/68. I'm jotting down notes, I'll have to go back and ask people. The next track starts with the first voice of the first track. ‘Ekta Sonar Naam Aasali Go Dekhbi Je Aay.’ The next song is in a female voice: ‘Kal morning Hari bale/ Amay Nitai Prabhu pulls me.’ Sounds very familiar, maybe I heard it in George Lunyo’s film. The song ends, with the signature khamak and akasha-chhunte chawa pukar: 'Ore amar abodh man/ savidei chetne thake re man' This time I am absolutely sure. This voice belongs to Purnadas Baul. After that another song, 'Baka Nadi Ghatik Muda Bhar' - this melody has a different tempo,

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https://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/rabibashoriyo/story-of-nabani-das-baul-father-of-purna-das-baul-article-by-moushumi-bhowmik-1.1193096?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily&fbclid=IwAR1wPH1Va2tjyjDZ2ljwvcMj08__VoewgHWURYW_0r5Olhjnjikas76AK94

 

http://www.thetravellingarchive.org/record -session/kolkata-4-september-2019-purnadas -on-nabani-das-baul

Subodh Mitra's 1955 Raikamal classic oldie Bengali movie , was a film about my grandfather Shri Nabani Das Baul. When a movie is made about you in India in 1955 you can guess that Sri Nabani Das Baul was a figure of importance, a legendary person.

The Bengali movie Hansraj was based on the life of my father, in 1985 which featured stories about my aunt Radharani Dasi, an outstanding woman Baul.

Babu Kishan provided the story, and was the film project designer, they also made this movie into a Hindi version called Sawan Koaane aane do made by Rajshri Productions. Raikamal. (Bengali, 1955) was adapted from a story by the Bengali author Tarashankar Banerjee who wrote about Sri Nabani Das Baul.

The movie stared Uttam Kumar, Kaberi Bose, Nitish Mukherjee, Sabitri Chatterjee, Chandrabati Devi, Jiben Bose, Namita Sinha and others with music directed by Pankaj Mullick.

Copyright 2018 - 2030

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Nabani Das Baul on 'World Music Central' - https://worldmusiccentral.org/tag/nabani-das-baul/ and Grandson Babu Kishan

Rabindranath and Tagore

https://bhavaproject.weebly.com/tagore--baul.html

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ARTIST PROFILES: NABANI DAS BAUL

AUGUST 7, 2018 ANGEL ROMERO

Nabani Das Baul was a great Yogi who composed music for Rabindranath Tagore’s poems and wrote many songs. It is through him that Tagore became so deeply interested in the Baul movement.

In popularizing the music of the Baul, Nabani das Baul opened the doors for his people to the world. He brought them from the huts where they resided in rural Bengal to the spotlight where their wonderful talents and beautiful songs gained the notoriety and recognition they deserved.

https://worldmusiccentral.org/tag/nabani-das-baul/

Photo by Rabindranath Tagore

Padma Sri Baul Samarat Purna Das Baul on his father 'Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Rabindranath Tagore'.

"My father would say that Tagore was very spiritually oriented.

However, many of his thoughts on spiritualism were scattered.

It was in order to bring these thoughts into a trajectory that Tagore required my father, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul.

Tagore would look up to my father both as a friend and as a guru.

My father taught him the various philosophical discourses of Baul. As such, Tagore had accepted my father as a guru who could initiate him into Baul philosophy.

At times, Tagore would see my father as a friend, at other times, as a guru.

It was from a sense of deep respect Tagore had for my father that he gave him the name ‘Khyapa Baul.’ My father too had told him jokingly, “You call me Khyapa Baul and I shall call you Robi Baul!”

They had a relationship which was based on the exchange of philosophical and spiritual ideas. That is why Tagore had a specific regard for my father, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. My father was a constant presence at the Tagore household.

Whenever Tagore would stray, even a bit, from the trajectory of his thoughts, he would call for Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. "

Grandson Babu Kishan on World Music Central

GENERAL NEWS, NEW RELEASES

MULTIFACETED INDIAN MUSICIAN BABU KISHAN RELEASES 32 ALBUMS ON GOOGLEPLAY

AUGUST 10, 2018 WORLD MUSIC CENTRAL NEWS DEPARTMENTLEAVE A COMMENT

GooglePlay has just released 32 albums from acclaimed award-winning music composer of Baul, Bollywood, folk, Indian Classical and world music Babu Kishan, also known as Krishnendu Das. 

The recordings include 50 years’ worth of music composed and now re-released including world music, folk, Bengali, Baul, Indian spiritual kirtan, bhajans to top Bollywood acts, including Kumar Shanu, Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal, Kavita Krishnamurty, Shaan, Sadhna Sargam, Poornima and many more.

Babu Kishan is a multi-instrumentalist, who plays 15 instruments, has produced 60 albums, composed 150 musical scores for Indian Cinema, and has released more than a thousand albums working for India’s top music companies including manager A&R/ Consultant at India’s popular music & film companies like CBS, Tips music, Gramophone Company, Time, ABCL.

He is the eldest son of the legendary Purna Das Baul who introduced Baul to India and the world more than 70 years ago. Babu been preserving his mystical tradition of Baul from Bengal for 45 years. Others follow him and his lineage, they do not follow anybody. He recorded and composed the music for most of his father’s Baul music and has performed since the early 1970s traveling around the world with his father. 

Raised by his grandfather, the legendary Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, who was Rabindranath Tagore’s Baul Guru, what the Bauls are singing today is the music of his renowned family.

Born an oral Sanskritist and musician, he speaks many languages and has composed music in 12 languages, traveling to more than 100 countries and collaborating with Bob Dylan and The Band whom he toured the United States of America 40 concerts in the mid 1980’s. He has jammed with The Rolling Stones, Third World, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, George Harrison of the Beatles and many more. He has toured with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, Sultan Khan, and Zakir Hussain.

Babu Kishan is a prolific poet and has written thousands of songs and composed music for most of India’s top legends. The 32 albums released on GooglePlay are focus on some of his compositions.
Babu Kishan’s new book on his world of music be released later this year, Baul to Bollywood to the World, historical Baul, who made a Greatest platform and preserved so can be much easier for new Bauls and the world. 

He has a master in Indian Music from Calcutta University and has been a Indian Cultural Ambassador and world music pioneer since the 1970s. Babu Kishan was awarded the youngest Music Composer in Bengal in the 1970s at just 11 years of age. Bollywood lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.

More at www.BabuKishan.org

Artist Profile at World Music Central Babu Kishan

Babukishan

Krishnendu Das (a.k.a. Babukishan) is a music designer, singer and author from India. He was born September 27, 1962.

Babukishan comes from a family background of traditional folk music artists. His grandfather, guru shri Nabani das Baul, worked with the great poet Rabindranath Tagore. His father is the legendary baul Samrat purna das, Purna Das Baul, the first baul singer (folk singer) of India who spread this culture throughout the world. 

Babukishan

At an early age, Babukishan joined several youth folk festivals that traveled throughout the world from 1980 to 2002 as music composer, musician and singer. He also toured with Bob Dylan’s The Band East & West tour in 1985. In addition, Babukishan has performed with other international artists such as Alice Cooper, Tom Petty, Miles Davis, Dharma Bums, Allan Fakir, fusion band Sosoo, George Harrison, Herbie Mann, reggae group Third World, Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson and many others. 

Babukishan has also worked with top Indian musicians/singers and music directors such as R.D.Burman, Zakir Hussain , V. Laya, Shankar.

As a composer, Babukishan has written the music for several albums, TV serials and films, earning a good reputation as one of the most promising composer in the Bollywood (Indian cinema) music &film industry of India. In his recordings, Babukishan features folk music, romantic songs, pop songs, ghazals, Qawwali music, new age, fusion, Sufi music and bhajans (devotional songs). 

He is the first singer and music composer from the rich baul family tradition to venture into fusion music by combining baul/sufi music with western music and reggae music. Babukishan produced and directed two documentary films about folk music and he wrote a book titled “The Bauls of Bengal.” Babukishan founded the band “Birds” that combines new age, world music/traditional folk and fusion music.