Various Artists: Beat Of India CD Track Listing

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Various Artists Beat Of India
Beat of India is a movement bringing about a revival of folk music. It brings the vibrancy and riches of the folk music of India to the World Wide Web so that people from the world over can experience it and artists and listeners have a meeting point across boundaries of space and time.\n\nThe site has complete songs from different areas - video clips, lyrics, translations of the songs, information about the forms to which they belong such as Kajri, Chaiti, Hori, Banna, Nyoli, Shakunakhar, a discussion forum and lots more.\n\nLog on to the site at http://www.beatofindia.com
This folk cd contains 10 tracks and runs 47min 2sec.
Freedb: 800b040a

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: Music

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: music songs tracks folk Folk

1. Various Artists - Shyam Lal Begana - Devi - Dihe Ke Manavan (05:37)
   seeking blessings of the Goddess before beginning any work
2. Various Artists - Urmila Srivastava - Var Khojai - BabaNimiya Ka (04:38)
   the song prepares a young girl for marriage
3. Various Artists - Govind Singh - Chhapeli - Sada Bhavani Dahini (03:40)
   hill song from Kumaon sung while dancing, it's the plea of a woman to go to her mother's home in monsoon
4. Various Artists - Anand Devi & Santram - Chhapeli - Gangoli Haat Ma (06:36)
   another hill song describing the special relationship between a man and his wife's sister
5. Various Artists - Manoj Tiwari - Hori - Baajat Aave Paijaniya (02:04)
   sung during the popular festival of colours, Holi, it describes the mythological characters Ram & Sita
6. Various Artists - Babunandan - Dhobiya - Hamke Jai De Naiharva (04:42)
   sung by the washer man community, it describes the love of a man for his wife
7. Various Artists - Jawahar Lal Yadav - Geet - Janata Party (05:23)
   celebrating the victory of Janata Party in 1977, it reflects political consciousness in folk music
8. Various Artists - Ram Kailash Yadav - Geet - More Pichvarva (02:45)
   a song of separation
9. Various Artists - Sucharita Gupta - Jantsar - Jhir Mir Bahela Bayar (03:24)
   sung by women grinding flour, it describes a woman who remains true to her far away husband
10. Various Artists - Manna Lal Yadav - Nirgun - Ke Tohra Sang Hai (08:05)
    addressing the parrot, a metaphor for the human soul, it speaks of the inevitability of death