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What starts out as an innocent sounding wedding song turns out rather startlingly to be a song of death. Kabir maps the moment when a girl is being taken away by her new husband exactly on to the moment when we are taken away by death from all things we hold dear and familiar. The soul is a young trembling girl, experiencing the terror of loss, the fear of the unknown, the regret of unfulfilled desires and the obstinate denial of the ultimate reality of death.
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The late Padma Ram ji renders this song with a quiet sombreness, charmingly offset by the younger Bhugde Khan taking unabashed delight in the song with the playing of his wooden castanets (khadtaal)! Padma Ram ji is one of the older respected generation of Meghval singers of Kabir, Mira and other bhakti poets from Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.
Padma Ram ji passed away in 2016. If you have enjoyed Padma Ram ji’s music, we urge you to offer support for his wife. Please contact Gopal Singh of Lokayan, a Bikaner-based NGO, at 9928522992, to do so.
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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:
Tambura & Vocals: Padma Ram
Dholak: Pappe Khan
Khadtaal: Bhugde Khan
English Translation: Shabnam Virmani
Video Credits:
Camera: Shabnam Virmani
Editing: Sharanya Gautam
Sub-Titling: Mamta Kandari & Shabnam Virmani
Collection: The Kabir Project
Date of Recording: 2004
Place: Bikaner