Some music to relax listening to

Have a listen, relax, enjoy.  After a long library zoom meeting. Since we cannot enjoy going out to Indian supper together after the 2021 AAS Spring Conference CONSALD meeting .

Notice the length of time for each.

Neel Agarwal (tabla and world percussionist)

  * Bicycle (live Studio Performance) 4m 32s https://youtu.be/pYc5yKeATJc

  * Flamenco dance and Indian dance and music-Oliver Rajamani. 14m 11s. A good length.

 https://youtu.be/5HDET8G-NVw

  

 

Shankars 

 * Anoushka Shankar – Traveller, live at Girona Festival 2011. 1h 23m 43s  (Nice and long and varied)

https://youtu.be/zHhB8roMpDE

 

* Anoushka Shankar Beloved from album Rise. 7m 05s https://youtu.be/jhGi-6S_fws (my favorite - single graphic)

 

* Ravi Shankar - Improvisations On The Theme Music From Pather Panchali. 7m 07s

 https://youtu.be/-jo73yV_LEo

 

Tagore The World Voyager

Philip Mceldowney's Reviews > Tagore: The World Voyager

Tagore: The World Voyager
by

Rabindranath Tagore,

Sugata Bose (Translator)

Philip Mceldowney's review

Feb 07, 2021  ·  edit

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3823787025?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

This is a wonderful book of Tagore poetry - Sugata Bose (the editor, selector, and describer) reviews each poem Tagore's 91 poems - giving the background and then the English translation of each poem as composed between about 1912 and 1930, as Tagore travels around the world including England and Europe, the US, South America and Japan. Truly remarkable - Tagore's travels on his voyages and his poetry.
See WorldCat's listing of it http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/885333133 which indicates 2 US libraries own it (get it on Inter Library Loan?) or buy it through
Amazon $24.75 https://www.amazon.com/dp/8184002416?....
or Rs 375 in Amazon.in https://www.amazon.in/Tagore-World-Vo...
You can also listen to some of the poems in videos - as Sugata Bose reads from the book and (mostly males) sing the selected poems in Bengali. Interesting listening.
Let me know what you think.
   Here's the video https://youtu.be/3l4F4nYiuu of the poem "your universe encompassing prayer mat" from  pages 15 and 16 of this book - Sugata Bose says the poem was written by Tagore in May 21, 1916 amidst a frightening storm while traveling in the South China sea. The video describes (in English) and Pramita Mallick sings the poem in Bengali
Click on the video link > https://youtu.be/3l4F4nYiuuI (8m 07s length)
    Another video “Tagore the World Voyager Part 1” https://youtu.be/_lTVSvF5HGw 18 minutes 

has 4 poems from the beginning of Tagore voyages. The 4 poems are listed on the pages of the book, their title, when written and length. Have a listen.  https://youtu.be/_lTVSvF5HGw
#1 p. 2-3 Poem “The exuberance of life” by Tagore June 3, 1912, while sailing through the Red Sea on The City of Glasgow.
#2 p. 4 “Beautiful, truly, is your bracelet” Talk 4:43, Song 5:51 London June 25, 1912.
#3 p. 5-6 “Infinite is your wealth” London August 24, 1913. Talk 8:41, Song (female) 10:27.
#4 p. 8 “This jewelled chain is not for me,” Talk - A ‘letter at this time’ 13:52 with Song 15:02.
    Finally I made a blog post about a 4 CD set of music from the book. Copy and paste this link -
http://gosher7.blogspot.com/2013/10/recordings-of-tagores-poems-and-songs.html

   I'd be glad to hear about what you think of this book, or Tagore's Voyages, or just Tagore. Thanks.