Songs - Folk Baul Bhatiyali

The Musical Map of India Series of music albums strives to capture the diversity and rich traditions of songs across the subcontinent tempered by the timelessness of the longest continuous civilization in the world.

Bengali Baul Songs - complete your collection of Bangla Baul Music. Listen to free preview online,  choose from our huge list of Bangla Baul, Folk, Tribal, Folk, World Fusion, Devotional, Spiritual, Religious and Chant  albums and songs, and download DRM-Free highest quality MP3 songs with confidence from your WBRi Online Partner Digital Music Shop.

In the now forgotten (or maybe not!) days of analog tape audio mastering, in the fall of the year that man went to the moon, one year before I was born, a fascinating group of Bangla baul, folk, spiritual and tribal singers landed in the United States. They went around San Francisco and generated quite a commotion in contemporary music aficionados with their songs both mystic and tied to the earth, in the best traditions of Indian / far eastern ageless mysticism, sufism, baul, folk, tribal and spiritual wisdom.

The album "Lower Caste Religious Music From India" by Monks,Transvestites, Midwives, and Folksingers captures folk music of the masses across India, primarily of the blue collar and manual labor working classes. Not known to many westerners, the concept of "Caste" in India was originally role based, not hereditary. The role-based system was hijacked by power mongers in monarchies and oligarchies to the notorious caste system that we have all now learnt to love to hate, though some form of the system is found in all societies in varying degrees and forms.

The seven tracks in this album provide a sample of the diversity and richness of folk traditions in India, not necessarily tied to Lower Caste, in spite of the title of the album.

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"Middle Caste Religious Music Of India" by Midddle Caste Musicians is a remarkable effort by to capture and rejuvenate religious / devotional songs going back into the distant past from across the huge Indian subcontinent. There are seven Indian Classical based songs in this album, released in July of 2007 under the Lyrichord label. The Ragpradhan / Ragasroyee (based on Ragas of Indian Classical) songs have been performed, in order, by:
1.     Mahadeo Misra
2.     Purabi Dutta
3.     Muni Devi
4.     Log Nath Misra
5.     Log Nath Misra
6.     Purabi Dutta
7.     Purabi Dutta
The intricate and interesting confluence of early Indian classical and religious / devotional / Indian folk music will not be missed by Indian Music connoisseurs. Preview Free and Download these unique collectible gems of songs from our partner.

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These 3 tracks were composed especially for the film Ocean of an Old Man - a film that represents India at International Film festivals 2008 in Pusan and Cairo.