ghazal corner

i like to listen to ghazals following are some of my favourite singers

1. Mehandi hassan (legend by venus tapes listen to this superb album)
2. jagjeet chitra ( beyond time,marasim,mirage,the unforgetables)
3. ahmed hussain mohammad hussain (guldasta )
4. hariharan
5. gulam ali

sushil_pareek31

Hi Sushil,
Great to have you around. Even I spend a lot of time listening to ghazals.

In addition to the singers listed by you, I am also fond of Begum Akhtar, Iqbal Bano, Habib Wali Mohammad, etc.

Among the new ones, I like Shumona Roy Biswas. Her album with Daag ghazals is great.

Try out Mehdi Hasan's initial albums with ghazals like "Gulon mein rang bhare". He had a great voice, and they seem to have better recording engineers in Pakistan! Also try out his lecture recitals at the London School f music.

Regards,
Sharad

Nice to have another Ghazal fan , After a long day of work (!!!!!!!) in office , listening to Jagjeet or Chitra or Gulam Ali etc etc . is always very relaxing. Even though i dont understand the language i dont fell like switching the system off when i listen to Ghazal and karnatic Classical.

regards

Hi soundofmusic,

If you like Daman Sood's recordings for Jagjit singh, try the movie album for 'Leela'. This was probably the one of the last albums recorded by Mr Sood at the Western Outdoor studios before it closed down. It is also one of the best albums by Jagjit in the recent past.

You might enjoy Ghazals even more if you start following the language. Ghazal is a form of poetry, not a form of music. The fact that you can feel the relaxing refinement in these compositions and renditions, just reflects the overall sincerity in approach usually employed while dealing with this highly evolved form of poetry.

Ghazals are the only 'songs' where the lyrics are always written before the tune is composed. I would recommend referring to an Urdu -> English dictionary whenever you encounter a new word. Some old LP records provided the meanings for all the difficult words used in the album.


Regards,
Sharad Medhavi

i would recommend "beyond time" by jagjeet singh. this album was recorded in london. some beautiful compositions

Highly recommended : "Hum-Umr Khayal" Ghazals written by Indira Varma

Music Today

Good recording, good singing.
Try it out.

Regards,
Sharad

Thanks Sharad for the information about Ghazals, thinking for a tution class on Hindi and Urdu LOL , I will also try the CDs what you people have suggested, Last night i heard INsearch beautiful album.
regards

My alltime fav and motivation:

JagjitSingh's Aye Khuda Ret ke sehra ko samundar kar de..

Other favs:

- Ghulam Ali's Chupke Chupke Raat din.

Recently heard: Mohit Chauhan's "Ghuncha koi mere naam kar diya"

hi,
i would recommend album ''Mirage'' by jagjeet singh and also listen to music of films ''Arth'' and ''saath Saath'' both composed by jagjeet singh.

sushil_pareek31

If you listening to all these gazals mentioned in various threads, on digital media ie. CD's they are very good,
But if you listen to some of them for which records/LP's were made, these are just amazing.
I made a lot of effort by giving news paper ads and going to old delhi and was able to make a decent collection of old records. Some of them are priceless. But the problem is that many of them are dirty and have groove noise specially if u are using low output MC catridges

Hope music companies and music lovers in India realise the sonic superiority of an analogue system and start manufacturing LP's again. But for this they need lots of analogue lovers and volumes to make it viable.

In europe and USA analogue is now coming back with force and sales of turntables and records are increasing year by year. They are able to remaster their old classical and jazz and pop recordings and pressing new LP's and some of them better than original LP's. But not all new LP's are better than older ones.
Can you believe an LP 30 or 40 years old, when recording techniques were not so good sound AMAZINGLY good and will beat a CD of same recording by huge margin.
Jagjit Chitra, Pankaj Udhas, Gulam Ali, Talat Mahmood, Jagmohan, Begum Akhtar, Pankaj mullick etc. are some of great LP recordings. Than there are LP's of some pakistani gazal singers.
SKR