Vintage Gaansaraswati Kishori Amonkar ---- Bibhas --- from Arun Dravid's Original Archives.

This recording is from a concert in the year 1964 held at the music class of the late Pandit Suresh Haladankar. It is the only concert that was recorded where Dr Arun Dravid provided vocal accompaniment to Kishoritai.
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This is the first and the oldest live concert recording made in Kishoritai’s career.
The recording is made available by courtesy of Dr Arun Dravid, Kishoriji's senior-most disciple, from his vast collection of her original live recordings from concerts before 1990 which had the distinct stamp of Jaipur Gharana, yet enriched with her skilled beautification of it with her quest for Bhava. As a result, these reflect her refreshingly youthful voice, vibrancy, and musical content not always found in her later concerts

[@arundravid1]

I must narrate a touching anecdote pertaining to this concert of 1964. The evening brfore the concert, Kishoritai suffered a small personal tragedy. I will not go into the personal details here. But, as a result, she became so distraught and cried so profusely, that I spent hours consoling her and making her compose herself. She told me next morning before the concert that she did not sleep all night. Please hear for yourself the grit and energy she had to sing a full three hour concert of which this is the first Raag. The young man behind her on the Tanpura accompanying her is "Yours Truly". This was the very first concert in her life that was recorded. And also the only one in which my accompanying voice is recorded, even though in all other concerts prior to 1966, I sang behind her, but none of them were recorrded!

[@upwardogdownwardog]

🙏🙏🙏

[@yahyabinsirhindi4528]

Did the “personal tragedy” you mention have anything to do with “Geet Gaya paththaron ne” ?

[@arundravid4352]

@@yahyabinsirhindi4528 no, not at all.

[@anandganapathy3315]

@@arundravid4352 ji, Thank you for these gems / music for the soul. Warm regards

[@arundravid1]

She mostly sang "Narahar Narayan" in future years. She used to sing "Shyama Shyam" (sung here) in the 1960's. Please hear carefully the application of the Shruti of the note Dha, which is neither truly Shuddh, nor truly Komal. It is in between, as she has explainen in her documentary "Bhinnashadja". Shri Diwan Singh has posted this Raag with this bandish, but it must be a second or third copy of a pirated copy, as it does not have the audio quality of this one, and is also abruptly truncated before the end.

[@dhruv24kap]

Dr. Dravid - You mention “her own bandish” - Narhar Narayan. This bandish has been sung by many including - Mallikarjun Mansur, Jitendra Abhisheki. Surely, you’re not implying that her contemporaries or her seniors adopted this from her ? Or are you ?

[@arundravid1]

@@dhruv24kap You are quite correct, Mr. Kapur. This is a traditional Bandish, not Kishoritai's comosition. I have corrected the error.

[@SundeepDougal]

Dr Dravid, I have a request: could you *please* post the text of the bandishes sung by Kishoriji? You would have access to the texts she used and knowing the text so enhances the performance for a listener like me.

[@kankeshwarmusic1211]

Pandit ji thank you !!

[@arundravid1]

Correction: Please note the other Bibhas Bandish Kishoritai sang after about 1970, i.e. "Narahar Narayan" is a traditional Bandish, not her own composition. Even the Bandish in this recording "Shyama Shyam Bhorahi" is a traditional Bandish.

[@gitashenoy3583]

Thank you for sharing this spectacularly uplifting rendition. Listening to it was like dying and entering a kingdom of pure joy and peace.🙏 The whole raga in magnificent aakar, something only she could do in a way that it entered your soul. Superb recording too. Much gratitude🙏. Thank you also for the accompanying explanations. Would it be too much to ask you for the words of this bandish, please?🙏

[@atulbhatnagar1888]

"You cannot segregate ” feeling ” in life from “feeling” in art; for their roots go right down to that land which everyone owns but no one knows-i.e. the human mind." Kishori Amonkar.(10 April 1932- 3rd April 2017)

[@narendrasambhus8752]

आभारी अरुणजी!!!🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹

[@sapnamukherjee4648]

Thankyou for uploading this 🙏🏼🌺🙏🏼

[@madhavithakurdesai3096]

Speechless devine experience

[@SundeepDougal]

हे श्याम श्यामा भोर ही उठ बैठे अब अरस परस दोउ करत सिंगार । एक पहनी वाकी मोतियन माला एक पहनो वाको नौसरहार ॥ *** मोरा रे मित पिहरवा सुरजनवा पिया बेगी दरसवा मैको आन दिखावो । महंमदशा तुम सदारंगिलवा बरस भईलवा इतनी बिनती मोरी हमरे मिलन की जाए सुनावो ॥