In this song Kabir evokes the image of our body, our self, being like the five-stringed musical instrument – the tambura. Made of the five elements and containing the sixth element – shoonyata or emptiness – we hold within our self the capacity to resound to a higher sound. But only if we learn to be perfectly strung – not too tight, not too loose, but just so! The song is beautifully composed and sung in the thumri idiom by Vidya Rao, a performer of thumri-dadra and ghazal, who has studied under the legendary late Naina Devi, Shanti Hiranand and Girija Devi. She also sings songs of Sufi and bhakti poets, verses from Hindu and Buddhist texts and Islamic forms of naat, soz and nauha...
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 08:27:51 +0000
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