Is this the kind of music Shiv digs?
How many of you like or have heard chutney?
Late last year when I was returning from NY I met a guy at the airport. He looked like someone from the subcontinent but had a real wierd accent (you never know who youl'll bump into NY :) )
Turned out he was from Trinidad ...
Among other things we discussed chutney of old days...I'm not sure if anybody hears it or heard it in OurMehfil
Some examples, tell me what you think of it :)
Best heard with head-phones...be careful otherwise members of your family will be wondering whats going on.
Little bit about about the composer Sundar popo of Monkey Town, Barrackpore, Trinidad & Tobago:
Sundar Popo (born Sunilal Popo Bahora, 4 November 1943, Monkey Town, Barrackpore, Trinidad & Tobago, died 2 May 2000) was a Chutney musician from Trinidad and Tobago. He popularised Chutney music, beginning with his 1970 hit Nana and Nani.
Popo grew up in a musical family. Both his parents were musicians; his mother was a singer and his father was an accomplished tassa drummer. At the age of 15, he began singing at bhajans at church and weddings in his hometown of Monkey Town. Bahora worked as a watchman at a Barrackpore factory, and trained under Ustad James Ransawak. In 1969, at a mattikoor in Princes Town, he met Moean Mohammed, a radio host and promoter. After listening to "Nani and Nana", a song with lyrics in both Hindi and English, describing the affairs of an Indian grandmother and grandfather, Mohammed got maestro Harry Mahabir to record the song at Television House, accompanied by the BWIA National Indian Orchestra. The song revolutionized East Indian music in Trinidad & Tobago.
Craig this one for you (this ones very popular):
4 comments:
Thanks Rehman.
That was a riot! Remind me never to go to the Caribbean for a holiday, they'd have to pour me into a bucket to send me home.
wow..... these songs made my morning :)
Ha ha, thanks Craig and Ashish, Chutney is one of my favourites.
Craig,the rum song has kind of sad undertones, dont you think?
So Ashish, you say that this dialect is originally from East India? Can you provide an approximate link on Google maps on the area? My guess is that long ago people from this area must have moved to West Indies...
It sure does Rehman, especially 'Drink Rum Till All Done' Sounds like a user's guide to making your liver and kidneys give up.
I enjoy the odd beer or 3 (or so!) and a glass or two of red wine, but I couldn't imagine dousing myself in spirits like that.
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