Raga Bhimpalasi | Mallikarjun Mansur | ( Album: Afternoon Ragas Volume 3) | Music Today

Mallikarjun Bheemarayappa Mansur was an Indian classical singer of the khayal style hailing from the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana or School of Hindustani classical music. Mansur was born on December 31, 1911, at Mansur, a village five km. west of Dharwad, Karnataka.His father, Bheemaraayappa was village headman,a farmer by occupation was an ardent lover and patron of music. He had four brothers and three sisters. His elder brother Baswaraj owned a theatre troupe, thus at age nine Mansur did a small role acted in play. Spotting the talent in his son, Mallikarjun's father engaged him to a traveling Yakshagana (Kannada theatre) troupe. The owner of this troupe took a liking to the tender and melodious voice of Mallikarjun and encouraged him to sing different types of compositions during the drama-performances. Hearing one such performance, he was picked up by Pundit Appaya Swamy under whom he had his initial training in Carnatic music. Sometime later, he was introduced to classical Hindustani music under Nilkanth Bua Alurmath of Miraj who belonged to the Gwalior Gharana. The latter brought him to Ustad Alladiya Khan, the stalwart and the then patriarch of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana, in the late 1920s, who referred him to his elder son, Ustad Manji Khan. Following Manji Khan's untimely death, he came under the tutelage of Ustad Bhurji Khan, the younger son of Ustad Alladiya Khan. This grooming under the Khan Brothers had the most important influence on his singing. Mansur was well known for his command over a large number of rare (aprachalit) ragas such as Shuddh Nat, Asa Jogiya, Hem Nat, Lachchhasakh, Khat etc, as well as his constant, mercurial improvisations in both melody and metre without ever losing the emotional content of the song. Initially, his voice and style resembled that of Manji Khan and Narayanrao Vyas, but gradually he developed his own style of rendition.He also remained music director with His Master's Voice (HMV) and later music advisor to All India Radio's Dharwad station.
This compilation features this beautiful renditions of Raga Shukla Bilawal by the maestro. The perfectionist that he was, this rendition is a delight for any Hindusthani Classical Music enthusiast.
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[@kharasamosa502]

bhimpalas unfolding so naturally,I could not move away even after finished listening to this! alap vistar taan drut everything so beautiful ,no artificial flavors just wow!

[@anubandhh]

Cannot imagine Bheempalasi in any other form but what Mansoor ji rendered.

[@santiagosalazar439]

This is the quintessence of music, God bless Hindustani music 🕉

[@chidambardeshpande1571]

Perfect expression of the Raag.

[@SundeepDougal]

Finally, got the elusive lyrics of the bandish in madhyalaya in jhaptal:
साधना करते रहो
गुनी गन्धर्व
किते नाद, किते भेद, किते अलन्कार
किति मुरान*
किति दुरान*
किते ग्राम
किते तान
इनको विस्तार
कर लीजेये विचार से
(*I got this from the Music of the Murans page on FB in Roman and am therefore not certain if my Devanagari transliteration is correct, and all of this therefore needs to be checked by someone more informed.)
saadhanaa karate raho
gunee gandharva
kite naada, kite bheda, kite alankaara
kiti murana
kiti durana
kite grama
kite taana
inako vistaara
kara leejeye vichaara se
The drut bandish in teentaal is of course the well-known one:
एरी मां मोरा मन हर लीनो
ओ दुखवा मैं कासे कहूं री ।
जितने औगुन हमी संग कीनो
सो हमने चित में धर लीनो
कुंवरशाम मोसे छल कीनो
नैना मिलाकर मन बस कीनो ॥
eree maaM moraa mana hara leeno
o dukhavaa maiM kaase kahooM ree |
jitane auguna hamee saMga keeno
so hamane chita meM dhara leeno
kuMvarashaama mose Chala keeno
nainaa milaakar mana basa keeno ||

[@shouryamukherjee6527]

I found this from Swarganga. The same as yours:
साधना करते रहो
गुनी गंधर्व ।
केते नाद केते भेद,
किते अलंकार
केते मुरन केते धुरन
केते ग्राम किते तान
इनको विस्तार
कर लीजेये विचार से ॥

[@SundeepDougal]

@@shouryamukherjee6527 It's the same because ... well, check the name of the person who contributed the bandish there!

[@RAVINDRA94900]

great singing by pandit Mallikarjun Mansur

[@sunilwagh3592]

Bhimpalasi at its best.

[@sarangjoshi7010]

His style is superb

[@RanaGanguly]

His style is so unique.

[@PoetDesh]

Superb!

[@lautdavila2112]

who is singuing with him?

[@3rd_ear]

his son Rajshekhar Mansur.