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The Ecstatic Journey: Music From Around The Sufi World
Featuring Sain Zahoor, Marouane Hajji, The Fakirs of Gorbhanga & the Ensemble Syubbanul Akhyar
28 September 2011 / 20:00
Hall
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Tickets:
£15 - £25
subject to availability
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The Fakirs of Gorbhanga
However you describe them, the Bauls of Bengal are unique. They are traveling minstrels, mystic singers, beggar philosophers - and a deeply free, altruistic people.
At dusk, the Fakirs of the village of Gorbhanga sit under the “akhra” (or “ashram”), a circular and open-sided hut, and play music on the dotara (a five-string, bird-headed lute), on the harmonium, on the jhuri (small cymbals), on the dholok (drum) or on the tabla.
The musicians usually play two main different repertoires : the Baul-Fakir gaan , devotional songs with bakti and sufi influences which are widely inspired by Lalan Fakir poetry (1774-1890) and the bangla qawwâli – closer to the Pakistani qawwâli, and associated with guru Gaus-ul-Azam (1826-1906) from the Tarika-e-Maizbhandari, in Bangladesh.
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