After a long time, another rare Saigal ghazal:
‘gar siyah-bakht hii hona tha naseebon mein mere
zulf hota tere rukhsar pe ya til hota
The recording I have has the first line snipped off. It could be cleaner too — this file is too saturated and a little noisy. Maybe I will re-digitize it someday when I have the time.
Enjoy!
The last two recordings of Master Madan in our little treasure trove are these two Punjabi songs. There is a faster tempo and some orchestral support, and his usual intensity of soul and pathos.
A beautiful Pilu thumri from Akhtaribai of Faizabad — bhanwara re, hum pardesi log.
The last of Master Madan’s bhajan’s is here — chetna hai toh chet lai.
Virtuosity of delivery combined with populist lyrics — witness the signature of the early Begum Akhtar in mere jahaan-e-mohabbat pe chhaye jaate hain!.
mana kii mana hii maanhe rahii — the young Master Madan is at his bewitching best in this Sorath (?) bhajan.
Kamala Jharia returns with another ghazal: jalwanuma woh shokh jo pesh-e-nazar na ho.
Our next Master Madan offering is the bhajan mori binati maano kaanh re.
The mercurial Begum Akhtar in her `Akhtari Faizabad’ days: takhayyul se daaman bachao toh jaane!.
You shall be seeing a lot more of her in these pages!
Before his unfortunate death in his early teens, a child called Master Madan set the music scene ablaze with his remarkable rendering of ghazals and thumris. Over half a century later, all that you can find is two remarkable ghazals: `yoon na reh reh kar’ and `hairat se tak raha hai’.
We bring you several extremely rare melodies of this young master, beginning with gori gori baiyan.