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Crossing The River of Love |
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Music of the Bauls of Bengal |
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by Sanatan
Das Baul and Sons |
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The Baul
is virtually unknown in the West. A 700-year history in the
Bengal region of India is documented only by a few books and
a scattered collection of songs and poems. The picture which
emerges from a study of these works is of a group of mad
beggars and poets, a fierce and devotional
people—iconoclastic, individualistic, visionary, lusty,
loving and free. All their practices—the use of breath and
sex and song—are aimed at the awakening of the Heart, and to
the relationship with the “man of the Heart”— their
description of the Divine Beloved who indwells in each
being,
During the Spring of 1991, Baul Sanatan Das and his sons,
Bishwanath and Basudev, of the Bankura district of Bengal,
toured the western United States. Audiences from San Diego
to Seattle delighted to their passionate performances of
original song and dance accompanied by their use of the
traditional Baul musical instruments, the ektara, the
dotara, and the kol. This tape is a
compilation of live recordings made during their tour. It
features both the songs of longing as well as encoded
esoteric teaching about love and sexual expression.
Translated lyrics, in English. |
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ISBN: 0-934252-38-6 |
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90 minutes |
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$11.95 |
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Sanatan Das Baul lives on a small ashram in Khoirboni, a village
in the Bankura district of Bengal, India, with his wife, Mirabai
and an extended family. Many come to him for spiritual guidance
in the Baul tradition. He travels occasionally, communicating
the love and longing for the Beloved (the Man of the Heart,
in Baul tradition) through his music. Sanatan is particularly
appreciated for his attractive dancing which, like his singing,
has more conscious artistry about it than that of most Bauls. He
is one of the few Bauls who is occasionally asked to perform on
All India Radio Calcutta.
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