Uday Bhawalkar: Raag Multani

Pt. Uday Bhawalkar was the opening artiste at the annual FEA-curated THE DIWALI CONCERT SERIES 2017, now in its sixth year.
He began his recital with a wonderful rendition of Raag Multani. He was accompanied by Pratap Awad on the pakhawaj and his two senior disciples Chintan Upadhyay and Prassanna Vishwanathan on supporting vocals and tanpuras.

[@singerasimali7483]

My favorite vocalist

[@Gurvinderkfistudy]

Excellent performance. Udayj's voice calms us down. Good pakhawaj accompaniment by Pratap. The chorus with Prasanna and Chintan makes the performance complete.

[@kalicharanroy7130]

Ami dhrupad section student to ti kub valo lage hindusthani dhrupad dhamar sunte

[@tejaschheda4610]

Uday ji ka ek style hai, Chautaal mein gaane ke baad woh Sooltaal mein zarur Dhrupad gaate hai!!

[@kalicharanroy7130]

Ponditji ke amar taraf theke sato koti pronam janai

[@hurshasnarayan]

Thanks for FEA channel and Panditji for providing the perfect antidote for all the negativity that so pervasive in the news nowadays. It's so calming.

[@kalicharanroy7130]

Asadharon performance mon vore gelo aha

[@souravbratachakraborty9213]

One of the greatest from our Dagar Style.

[@naynishwing1177]

Love it! Thank you very much for uploading this amazing music. I was totally captivated.Wow!

[@shellyspiano]

Wow...quite simply, WOW!!

[@shyamwadkar3242]

Simply superb performance. Thanks a ton.

[@mahadevjadhav3041]

Guruji pranam

[@shashikantkulkarni4538]

खराेखर स्वर्गीय संगीत 🙏

[@pradipdhole732]

A wonderful performance.

[@atulpatel910]

Absolutely superb Dhrupad by Udayji! And great production by FEA too! 🙏🙏👏👏

[@veenagamini2572]

Always favourite ♥

[@enkamayo]

outstandig! Everything! Bhawalar, but also a great respect to Pratap Awad! Nowhere else could I hear that particular hypnothic drumming. So in the background, but yet so important. It is like they would be one organism together. Great deep understanding of music as a bond between all beings.

[@stein0niets]

Perfection! Even the kurtas match the raag.

[@mishrapriya]

😅😅

[@fauziajamil6974]

Wah wah what a brilliant performance

[@batonlama1455]

Just amazing!

[@victorcirone1]

Outstanding performance.

[@gurjeetsing4160]

Lots of respect and love to Pt Uday ji and People who organised this event

[@kevin2themystic]

So sublime and delicate and deep!

[@kalicharanroy7130]

Pronam janai pondit ji ke

[@LeftyandFriends]

Thanks be for Uday.
The greatest.

[@bhavyakumarsaini1639]

This is priceless! Well Done FEA!!

[@kalicharanroy7130]

Kono din jodi ami onake amar samne dekte pi tale bugbo je ami sayan iswar re darshan korchi

[@seemagaurrow21]

@5'25"...sublime...restful phrase...yet to hear just PSNS...kharaj and grS madhya saptak
...

[@hkoushik]

Wow! totally mesmerized.

[@vandanaupadhye7718]

marvelous performance !

[@adrianabarassi5003]

Sublime❤

[@TheDrguru1982]

mind-blowing, meditative.

[@vandanaupadhye7718]

अप्रतिम! !

[@shashikantkulkarni4538]

पखवाजकी कमाल

[@boneyboneybali9270]

waah!!😊

[@sandeepgoje7984]

🙏🏻

[@rupeshawal67]

divine

[@shardulmangiraj8242]

अदभुत🙏

[@shamsunderparekh5289]

Superb solo dhrupad

[@enkamayo]

Which raag comes at the end? Please! I would like to know the lyrics! Thank you!

[@chitrayudhghatak]

Next time please do invite Pandit Falguni Mitra so that we may get a non-Dagar perspective on Dhrupad.

[@bhumanandamaharaj8177]

धृपद गायकी संथ वाहणरी जणु नदी आहे तर हिंदोतानी जणु प्रपात!😃😂😉😞😭😭😠

[@kathaksehajpreet]

Maharaj kyu likha hai apne naam ke aage🤔

[@branandubh]

I must say that this trend of bringing the pakhawaj in on the jhala is a bit too rock and roll for me, and spoils the impact of its entry for the bandish.

[@anirudhraghavan]

It might seem like a trend but the use of Pakhawaj in the ati-Jod and Jhala sections of the nom-tom is a very old tradition. Pt Bhawalkar has spoken about it in his lec-dems. In fact, the singing of nom-tom may dhrupadiyas believe came from the style of playing jod and jhala on the Rudra Veena and the tradition of playing Tar Paran or elaborating raga patterns along the bols of chautaal. This tradition is still practiced by the senia gharana sarodiyas and sitariyas.
The use of pakhawaj is not alien to the tradition. It is just that many Dagar vocalists chose not to use it for a while.
But of course, aesthetically you may still find that the use of the Pakhawaj is not to your taste. But I just wanted to point out that this is by no means a trend or a recent fad.

[@branandubh]

@@anirudhraghavan you could be right that it isnt a new thing. Ive never heard it on any old dhrupad recordings and it seems alien to pakhawaj culture to introduce it where there isnt a taal nor a composition.

[@devanshphadke]

@@anirudhraghavan is the lec - demo available on YT? If so plz share the link.

[@swamivn]

Even the Senior Dagars & esp Ameenuddin in solo used the punctuation of the Pakhawaj beat in Alaap - as a mark of a metronomic cycle of swars.
I vaguely remember some Ameenudd8n recordings with Pakhawaj coming in on the Jhala.
But may be there are others who could confirm or correct this 8mpression.