Meera expresses yearning for spiritual union by imagining one's awareness as a bride - a girl who seeks her groom but fails, until many sacrifices later, when at last a doorway opens. The beloved has been found, her awareness is married!
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This piercingly beautiful song is sung by Kaluram Bamaniya, who belongs to a vibrant tradition of singing bhakti poets such as Kabir, Gorakhnath, Bananath and Meera in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh in India. He started learning at the early age of 9, by accompanying his father, grandfather and uncle on the manjiras. When he was 13 years old he ran away from home and went to Rajasthan, where he absorbed a wide repertoire of songs from an itinerant Mirasi singer Ram Niwas Rao for 1-2 years. Contact Kaluramji at +91 9826400632 or bairagkabir.bamniya@gmail.com.
He sang this song during the Rajasthan Kabir Yatra, a week-long travelling festival which toured 7 villages with 13 singers of Bhakti, Sufi and Baul poetry in February 2012. The Yatra was organized by Lokayan in Bikaner (www.lokayan.org) in partnership with the Kabir Project, Bangalore.
This is one of a series of uploads for Ajab Shahar, a webspace dedicated to mystic poem and song, created by the Kabir Project team (www.ajabshahar.org ; www.kabirproject.org).
Song Credits:
Lead Vocals & Tambura: Kaluram Bamaniya
Violin: Devnarayan Saroliya
Dholak: Devidas Bairagi
Harmonium: Santosh K Pathundia
Nagaari (Timki): Sajan Singh Parmar
Manjiras & Co-singers: Ram Prasad Parmar & Arpita
Translation: Shabnam Virmani
Video Credits:
Cameras: Smriti Chanchani & Aarthi Parathasarthy
Sound: Atirek Pandey
Editing: Piyush Kashyap
Sub-Titling: Neha Rajan
Collection: The Kabir Project
Date of Recording:
24 February 2012
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