Jaane kahan gaye voh din!

Re: # 106 Good comments.
I wonder do American people get news of things going back at home ? What they think of evolutionary change demanded by lawyers and their suppression and sacrafices ? Americans stand by Lawyers or they hate lawyers and prefer khaki overlord ? ( bush is lawyer by training ?)

Re: Pseudo Begum Nek-Perveen,

How many jahilae` mutliq -- ``ignorant`` jehadis listen to Emerson Lake & Palmer (head scratching icon).

Swarrier,

Just a mild criticism. Emerson Lake & Palmer shouldn`t be referred to as ELP, just as Creedence Clearwater Revival should never be referred to as CCR. It detracts from their status by turning them into mere pieces of scattered alphabets :)

Re: # 115
Arthritic fingers cause ELP`s and CCR`s. Never so in speech. -)

I wonder if somebody can locate this Rafi/Khayyam melody from Shola or Shabnam on the net.
Jaane kya dhoondti rehti hain yeh aankhen mujhme
Raakh ke dher mein shola hai na chingaari hain

It ends with
aarazu jurm-e- vafaa jurm-e- tamannaa hai gunaaha
ye vo duniyaa hai jahaan pyaar nahin ho sakataa
kaise baazaar kaa dastoor tumhein samajhaaoon
bik gayaa jo vo kharidaar nahin ho sakataa ...

It is one of my favourite songs and I`ve only been able to locate an instrumental version played by Brian Silas on the piano.

Re: # 110

Swarrier - Can you post the link for the song you were referring to? Thanks for an interesting post.

Thanks.

Re: # 117
Which one, the Dixie Chicks or the Polish folk dance one?

#116 by swarrier

I have that song in my Rafi collection. If you really really want it, I can perhaps rip it for you and place it on some web archive .... but I`m too lazy .. :)

Re: # 118

The latter.

The documentary movie``SUAS`` you are planning to watch is indeed worth watching. I guess I watched the 1st show last year in NYC. I was very pleased to see that all their efforts got well acknowledged and rewarded in the end. I prefer D.C of the past 8-10 years.

Re: # 119
C`mon, you can rip it into an mp3 and email it to me.-) I have it somewhere on tape in India. Don`t have it on a CD though, will probably try to get it somehow.

Re: # 120
Zahra

Here it is
SzlaDzieweczka(Slow)

and the more modern version

Szla(Modern faster version)

and of course the Madhumati one.

Dil tadap

Re: # 122

Swarrier - Thank you.

#121 by swarrier,

Turns out mine is on tape as well. I thought I had it on CD (chin scratching). I can still probably rip it to .wav but that won`t be any good. Too large a file. But I`ll try to get it on CD and rip it for you :)

Enjoy....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGCpQPC

Re: # 122

Swarrier: I suggest listening to the following:

1. Yulduz Usmanova - The Best of Yulduz
Song - Hur Kiz
An intro: Yulduz Usmanova is from Uzbekistan, along the fabled Silk Road trade route in Central Asia. Her singing is a fusion of intricately coded styles, which includes borrowings from Turkish and Persian rhythms and scales. She is accompanied by the tanbur (a long-necked lute) and the doira (a hand drum) but often wields a wicked backbeat and sees no reason why she should not use the latest electronic percussion and synthesizers. She is a folk singer and a club diva, a Moslem woman who wears miniskirts and was elected to her country`s parliament, and an international figure who resides in a rural area outside of Tashkent. Her elders admire her espousal of endangered folkways while young girls, emerging from the dual oppressions of Soviet life and religious fundamentalism, cherish her as a role model. Yulduz is a bundle of contradictions but knows exactly who she is. --Christina Roden
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Yulduz-Usmanova

2. The Pamet River Band - Celtic Vision
Planxty Irwin

I will post a few other later.

Re: # 126

Thanks for the tip. I went on the web to look for her and listened to some of her song samples. I liked the more traditional versions rather than the lush arrangements, perhaps because the traditional stuff sounds newer to me than the other ones. Too many electric instruments tend to make it less unique I think.

When I was a kid in school I used to listen to a program on the BBC ``A taste of honey Irish style``. It was run by somebody called Gloria Honeyford (or Hunnyford, not sure about the spelling) and I was very interested in traditional arrangements of celtic and english folk tunes.

Since you put Planxty Irwin you might like this. Simple and pleasant.

Re: # 127

Interesting. Thanks for the link.