Guest guest Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 you can read about him on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sain_Zahoor and enjoy VIDEOS: Sain zahoor Ahmed - Nachna Painda Hey 3:29 with flute player, whirls 8:29min with dancers dama dam allah hu-1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgHy5vLm820 6:57 two singers Sain Zahoor Ahmed - Allah Hoo, Hy Sajnan Bajon Zaat Sifata 7:12min lighted stage Sain Zahoor Sings at Punjab Lok Boli Mela 2006 7:54 Sai Zahoor The Best Choice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhJDsF2jAU & NR=1 5:15min Sai Zahoor The Best Choice III 5:23min below from http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=900882 WINNER 2006 SAIN ZAHOOR (PAKISTAN) The infamous attempts of the Taliban to eradicate music from the social and cultural landscape of Afghanistan ended in happy failure, but their puritanical zeal still thrives in the region. All the more reason to celebrate the continued existence of various Pakistani and Afghani musical traditions which all owe their spiritual fire to the Sufi path of Islam. Of these, the music of the qawwali is well known and documented throughout the world, but there is a more obscure breed of 'street' singers who still practise their art at the shrines and festivals of Pakistan and Northern India. Sain (or 'Saeen' or 'Saiyan') Zahoor is their king. Now aged 60, Zahoor started singing at the age of five. 'I dreamt of a hand calling me to Baba Bulle Shah's dargah ('shrine'),' he recalls. 'There I met Ustad Sain Raunka Ali of Patiala. My first lessons in the Sufi kalams were under his guidance.' The kalams are verses of poetry redolent with devotional love, which are sung with the passion and power needed to give listeners a chance of actually knowing the mystery of God. With his robes, beads, tightly bound turban and one string ektara lute, Saeen Zahoor delivers kalams by poets like Baba Bhulay Shah or Mian Muhammad Bakhsh, aka 'The Rumi Of Kashmir', with focused and flamboyant joy. Zahoor was born and raised in a rural peasant family and for decades he performed exclusively at dargahs and melas in his native Ojara district of Pakistan. In 1989 he was invited to the All Pakistan Music Conference to give his first ever performance on a concert stage and, by all accounts, he transported the 2000 audience members present to heights of emotion which were deemed almost dangerously intense. He now tours the world, often accompanied by harmonium and dholak drum side-players, wreaking the same blissful havoc on devotees and newcomers alike. His piercing chiselled features are a regular sight on Pakistani TV and he has been the subject of at least one documentary. Fans of the Sufiana kalams claim that seeing and hearing Sain Zahoor in full flow is the closest anyone alive will get to being in the presence of the the Sufi mystics of yore, like Bulle Shah and Shah Hussain. It's a musical spell that is well nigh universally effective. Ivan Chrysler More information from Matteela records Hindustan Times feature Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Namaste Thanks for posting this Amarnath, this was very interesting, i have not seen the one string ektara lute before. . .Artist like this with their deep courage and talent are ones, i truly admire. . .May they be blessed and protected. . . Aum Amriteswarayi Namaha marci On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM, amarnath <anatol_zinc wrote: > you can read about him on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sain_Zahoor > > and enjoy VIDEOS: > Sain zahoor Ahmed - Nachna Painda Hey > 3:29 with flute player, whirls> 8:29min with dancers> > dama dam allah hu-1 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgHy5vLm820 6:57 two singers > > Sain Zahoor Ahmed - Allah Hoo, Hy Sajnan Bajon Zaat Sifata > 7:12min lighted stage> > Sain Zahoor Sings at Punjab Lok Boli Mela 2006 > 7:54> > Sai Zahoor The Best Choice > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhJDsF2jAU & NR=1 5:15min > Sai Zahoor The Best Choice III > 5:23min> > below from > http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=900882 > > WINNER 2006 > SAIN ZAHOOR (PAKISTAN) > The infamous attempts of the Taliban to eradicate music from the > social and cultural landscape of Afghanistan ended in happy failure, > but their puritanical zeal still thrives in the region. All the more > reason to celebrate the continued existence of various Pakistani and > Afghani musical traditions which all owe their spiritual fire to the > Sufi path of Islam. > > Of these, the music of the qawwali is well known and documented > throughout the world, but there is a more obscure breed of 'street' > singers who still practise their art at the shrines and festivals of > Pakistan and Northern India. Sain (or 'Saeen' or 'Saiyan') Zahoor is > their king. Now aged 60, Zahoor started singing at the age of five. 'I > dreamt of a hand calling me to Baba Bulle Shah's dargah ('shrine'),' > he recalls. 'There I met Ustad Sain Raunka Ali of Patiala. My first > lessons in the Sufi kalams were under his guidance.' The kalams are > verses of poetry redolent with devotional love, which are sung with > the passion and power needed to give listeners a chance of actually > knowing the mystery of God. With his robes, beads, tightly bound > turban and one string ektara lute, Saeen Zahoor delivers kalams by > poets like Baba Bhulay Shah or Mian Muhammad Bakhsh, aka 'The Rumi Of > Kashmir', with focused and flamboyant joy. > > Zahoor was born and raised in a rural peasant family and for decades > he performed exclusively at dargahs and melas in his native Ojara > district of Pakistan. In 1989 he was invited to the All Pakistan Music > Conference to give his first ever performance on a concert stage and, > by all accounts, he transported the 2000 audience members present to > heights of emotion which were deemed almost dangerously intense. He > now tours the world, often accompanied by harmonium and dholak drum > side-players, wreaking the same blissful havoc on devotees and > newcomers alike. His piercing chiselled features are a regular sight > on Pakistani TV and he has been the subject of at least one documentary. > > Fans of the Sufiana kalams claim that seeing and hearing Sain Zahoor > in full flow is the closest anyone alive will get to being in the > presence of the the Sufi mystics of yore, like Bulle Shah and Shah > Hussain. It's a musical spell that is well nigh universally effective. > > Ivan Chrysler > > More information from Matteela records > Hindustan Times feature > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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