After listening to Pushkar Lele's excellent and very effective rendition of Kumar Gandharv's Tukaram abhang "Lakshmi Vallabha Dinanatha Padmanabha" on Marathi SRGMP, I rushed back to my files of KG's Tukaram Darshan. Ever since, it has been playing on repeat mode on my computer.
A search for the lyrics on the net wasn't fruitful for a a long time. I finally found it in the complete Tukaram Gatha on marathi wikibooks--an amazing resource!!! This is the URL: http://mr.wikibooks.org/wiki/
And here's a transliteration of Lakshmi Vallabha:
Lakshmi Vallabhaa, Dinaanaathaa Padmanaabhaa |Dhru|
Sukh vase tuze paayee, Maj thevee te chi thaayee |1|
Maazhee alp hee vaasanaa, Tu to udaaraachaa raanaa |2|
Tukaa mhane bhoge, Peedaa keli dhaav vege |3|
p.s.
May 6th 09
So, there's a Composer's Day celebration that Rama has organized in honor of Thyagraja Aradhana. And I am planning to sing my version of Lakshmi Vallabha [influenced by KG's original and Pushkar's interpretation]. Here's what you would call in academic parlance, a rough rough-draft:
Aditi cannot resist singing (and recording and posting) Lakshmi Vallabha.
4 comments:
Very well sung! I can understand why you want to sing it. The melody is very haunting and for you the Marathi language represents everything that you identify with? The so called perfect rendition in the SRGMP is just a perfect imitation of KG! Where as you have made it your own- as musicians should...
Thanks for the encouragement. I really cannot stop singing/listening once I start the piece. And I am happy that it sounds expressive to you as well.
To be fair to the SRGMP singer, Pushkar, he is an intelligent musician. I am hearing both his and KG's recordings of the song incessantly and feel that he succeeded in making the song his own...
In any case, such a joyful and haunting piece--on some level, it is just the process (of singing) rather than the result that matters.
AMAZING BHAJAN BY KUMARJI AND VASUNDHRAJI.EVEN IN SLEEP IT GOES ON N ON.ONE OF THE BEST OF KUMARJI.
thanks for visiting the blog, sumit. it is indeed an amazing bhajan that one never tires of.
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