Pandit Ramashish Pathak of Amta ( Near Darbhanga Bihar) Plays pakhawaj solo in Adi Tala ( 16 beats) acccompanied by his students. Ramashish Pathak one of the most reputed pakhawaj players of India plays in the Kudau Singh style.
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Elder Dagar Brothers Nasir Moinuddin and Nasir Aminuddin Dagar
This is a very rare composition in Raga Bangal Bhairav – an uncommon Raga -sung by Nasir Aminuddin Dagar without pakhawaj accompaniment in the 1980’s at a concert in Delhi. The photo shows Aminuddin Dagar (left) with his elder brother and singing partner Ustad Nasir Moinuddin Dagar. After the death of Moinuddin Dagar in 1966 Aminuddin Dagar sang alone – only rarely teaming up with some other cousins. He also changed the pitch of his singing far lower than what he used to sing in with his elder brother. As can be seen in the recordings here.
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Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Dagar
Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Dagar sings a composition in Chowtal ( 12 beats) in Sawani Barwa.From a concert in Delhi in the1980’s.
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It is interesting to compare this with another performance (below) of the same composition in 1991 in Bhopal where he sings a different ornamentation in the beginning and also in other places. Orally transmitted compositions probably mutate a lot in this way.
Dhrupad Alap in Raga Bageshree – excerpt from a concert – Ashish Sankrityayan
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Here is a recording made from a radio broadcast in 1965 of Ustads Nasir Moinuddin and Nasir Aminuddin Dagar singing Raga Desi – Alap followed by the Dhamar ‘udho tuma jaaye kaho hari paas tuma bina kaiso phaaguna maas’. This recording is from the collection of Maharawal Mahipalsinghji Sab of Dungarpur.
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This is a composition attributed to the legendary Dhrupad singer Tansen who sang in the court of Emperor Akbar… It is addressed to the Saki of Hauz-e-Kausar or the giver of nectar in paradise.. a term used by Sufi mystics to describe the prophet..yet it makes a reference to the Hindu belief of rebirth. The singer declares himself to be a servant of the Saki of Hauz-e-Kausar since many births!!
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Pakhawaj Solo in Chowtal – Pandit Dalchand Sharma of the Nathadwara Tradition of Pakhawaj playing.
Ustad Rahimuddin Khan Dagar ( mid 1930s)
A recording of Ustad Rahimuddin Khan Dagar singing a Dhamar ( cycle of 14 beats) in Raga Purvi. Pakhawaj by Pandit Ayodhya Prasad of the Kudao Singh Gharana. It is interesting that in Radio broadcasts in those days the honorifics Ustad, Pandit etc. were selectively used for some artists. A practice that was subsequently discontinued.
In this photo taken a few months after the death of his illustrious elder Brother Nasiruddin Khan in Indore (1936?) Rahimuddin Khan Sab poses with the children of the household. ( Guess who is the rather solemn looking teen standing behind him).
In the other photo Nasiruddin Khan sits with his cousin ( and rival) Ustad Ziauddin Khan. It seems highly unlikely now that any recording of these two singers will ever be found. Probably none exist.
Ustads Nasiruddin Khan and Ziauddin Khan Dagar
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An interview with Ustad Rahimuddin Khan Dagar by musicologist S K Saxena in which Rahimuddin Khan talks about his teachers and illustrates the styles of his Uncle Zakiruddin Khan and his father Allabande Khan using phrases of alap in Raga Shree. In the photos on the left clockwise from upper left are Zakiruddin Khan, Allabande Khan, Ziauddin Khan and Nasiruddin Khan (photo around 1918).
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