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Notes From Home: himalayan folk tunes
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"The storytelling power of music is vibrantly illustrated in Notes From Home. Manose. . . uses his adept lyrical skills to create colorful visions of Nepalese life. Most poignant is the title track, a moving piece dedicated to all Nepalese people living abroad. Other favorites include "In the Spider's Web," which playfully explores a flirting game called dohari, and the ecstatic "Sorathi Dhun/Jamke Fuli." Manose is gaining popularity with many audiences. Listen to Notes From Home, and you will understand why." --New Age Retailer
Liner Notes
Artists
Bamboo Flute: Manose
Sarangi: Shyam Nepali
Percussions: Baburaja Maharjan
Acoustic Guitar: Gopal
Arrangements: Manose
Compositions: Traditional, except for track 7,"Notes From Home", by Manose
Track List
1. Kauda:
A piece inspired by festival dance tunes of the Gurung people who's homeland lies at the feet of the Annapurna mountain range. It combines sweet melancholy expressed on the flute and sarangi with up-tempo folk rhythms.
2. In the Spider's Web:
When young men and women of the rural villages meet socially, a favorite activity is a flirting game called Dhori. With the women gathered on one side, and the men gathered on the other, they take turns improvising teasing questions and answers to the tune of this song. He with the wittiest tongue and best singing voice wins the heart of his love!
3. Malshree:
A song for the goddess Durga, this piece is heard everywhere in October/November during the time of the Dasain festival which celebrates Durga's triumph over an evil water buffalo demon. Dasain is the major holiday of the year for Hindu Nepalese, a time for visiting relatives back home, exchanging gifts, and eating well!
4. Fluttering Silk:
This is one of Nepal's best loved and most widely known folk tunes. If you ever visit Nepal for trekking, at some point your Nepalese staff is almost sure to pull out a madal drum and sing this one for you. Like many folk songs the world over, the lyrics are partly improvised, somewhat nonsensical, and somehow about love. The main refrain is "shall I sit here on this hill side, or shall I fly away?"
5. Maruni:
A piece of music to accompany folk dance, this is another where we find the sweet and bitter of life commingling easily.
6. Rajamati:
From the Newari people of the Kathmandu Valley, this song is about a boy in love, so in love, as he tells his father, that if he cannot have the hand in marriage of the beautiful Rajamati, he will run away to the city of Varanasi to become an ascetic on the banks of the holy Ganges river rather than marry another.
7. Notes From Home:
This original composition is dedicated to all Nepalese living abroad.
8. Sorathi Dhun/Jamkey Fuli:
A tune for Newari folk dance.
9. Sherpa Song:
People of the high mountains, Sherpa's are famed in the West as mountain guides. They are Buddhists who revere the spirits and deities of the Himalayan mountains. Their language and culture is very similar to that of the people of neighboring Tibet. This rendition of their, you might say, anthem is a salute to them.
