ADESH ADESH https://facebook/pages/Yoga-of-Nath-Sampradaya-Mahayogi-Guru-Gorakhnath/219656318104039?ref=br_rs -facebook/AlakhNiranjanAdeshAdesh ADESH ADESH -Baba Kalgilal Maharaj track 1 Todi Music of the Kumbalgarh Tradition This disc offers possibly the only reproduction of the wonderful music of Baba Kalgilalji Maharaj, a musician, who excelled in vocal music as well as in the playing of the Rudra Veena. This great musician lived in near obscurity in Nepal through the latter half of the 19th century and near the first half of the 20th century. No exact dates are available and this is an informed guess. An unknown European traveler recorded him, according to the brief speech of the Baba on this disc in the Nepali language, in 1910. I came upon these recordings on som highly damaged discs in Najibabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, some years ago. To my unbelievable luck the person, who had the discs also had a photograph. According to the Babas introduction in his own voice, the music tradition was transported from Rajasthan, India around the 15th century, and survived through the association of the spiritual movement, founded by Baba Gorakhnath. The music while scaling heights of virtuosity has a direct and powerful appeal. Even allowing for the limitations of sound equipment of those times, the resonant and powerful strokes of the veena stand out. Could the Baba have been using rhinoceres gut to string his instrument? In his short speech Baba Kalgilal describes his tradition as Kumbal Vani, associated with the Rajasthan town of Kumbalgarh. We usually associate Dhrupad singing with the four banis or styles. Was there in fact a fifth? Unfortunately there is no recording with Baba playing the Rudra Veena, but there is one short recording included on this disc, where You can hear the actual veena sound from a disciple of the Baba at that time, and You will experience a tiny glimpse of the tremendous spiritual depth of Baba Kalgilalji Maharaj, as reflected through his veena. I have travelled to the Pokhra region recently, and a few very old people had a faint recollection of the Baba. But nothing more. But tantalizingly, they added that a musical successor to the Baba might be living somewhere in north India. I hope fervently that I shall encounter this person in the years I have left. Peter Hennix, Stockholm.
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