Bakhuda faris-e-maidan-e-tahawwur tha Hur - Mir Anees | Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari (1975)

Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari reciting what may be considered Mir Anees's magnum opus at Dr. Yawar Abbas's residence in 1975, posted on the occasion of Mir Anees's 150th death anniversary. This recording should be from March/April 1975, and Bukhari sahib passed away in July 1975, making it possible that this is the last marsiya he ever recited.
Mir Anees (1800-74) was the quintessential poet of the marsiya, alongside his rival, Mirza Dabeer (1803-75). For several generations before them, the marsiya underwent major transformations as a genre. It exclusively became associated with the musaddas format, and it became a vehicle for the elements of the classical qasida. Their respective mentors contributed to this process, but the pupils brought this developed classical marsiya to new heights, becoming enshrined as the genre's unsurpassable giants.
Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari (1904-75) was a broadcaster and the the first Director General of Radio Pakistan. He was furthermore a poet and a superb teht ul lafz khwan. Prior to Partition, he was the Director of the Delhi Broadcasting Station of All India Radio and the Director of the All India Radio Station in Calcutta, becoming one of the most earliest and defining figures of broadcasting. As a teht ul lafz khwan, he introduced many to the marsiya, instructed individuals like Naseer Turabi, and has countless emulators to this day.
A brief history of ZA Bukhari's teht ul lafz khwani and its history in Karachi can be found on page 7 here: emarsiya.com/w...
ZA Bukhari photo: www.flickr.com...
Recorded by Ali Ghazanfar Jaffery (Badshah Ali)

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Can you tell me how exactly do you go about digitizing these recordings? I've a tonne of type 1 cassettes containing marsiyas recited by obscure Sindhi nauha khwans, and I cannot find a digitized version of their work anywhere. At this rate, these will become lost media if I don't digitize them. Thank you in advance :)

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You must! I digitize the cassettes by hooking my laptop up to my cassette deck using Behringer's UCA222. I then adjust the speed if necessary on Audacity before I edit & master the audio on iZotope.