{"id":3581,"date":"2011-07-05T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2011-07-05T21:53:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T01:53:20","slug":"78-rpm-records-of-indian-music-mr-chimanlal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/78-rpm-records-of-indian-music-mr-chimanlal\/","title":{"rendered":"78 rpm Records of Indian Music: Mr. Chimanlal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a male vocalist singing a pair of raga-based sort-of-khyal compositions.  I&#8217;m not sure what relationship these songs have with the orthodox classical tradition.  For that matter, the text as given on the disc label for the Bageshri doesn&#8217;t seem to match the <em>mukhda<\/em> he&#8217;s performing.  (headscratch).<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Chimanlal has a pleasant voice with a good upper register, and while he mostly eschews anything in the way of elaborate improvisation, he&#8217;s clearly got the technique.  All of the 78s released on The Twin Records were part of the collection I purchased in Udaipur in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s a song in Bageshri:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WfnOVfvwIr0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WfnOVfvwIr0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And a delightful item in Raga Bhimpalasi; in this one the written text matches the mukhda.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WRFXLBru5bM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WRFXLBru5bM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a male vocalist singing a pair of raga-based sort-of-khyal compositions. I&#8217;m not sure what relationship these songs have with the orthodox classical tradition. For that matter, the text as given on the disc label for the Bageshri doesn&#8217;t seem to match the mukhda he&#8217;s performing. (headscratch). Mr. Chimanlal has a pleasant voice with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7,9,638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-indian-music","category-music","category-vocalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}