Samandari Ehsaasat / Oceanic Feelings #3 [2021] by Zahra Malkani brings together found audio and music, interviews and live field recordings that span languages, dialects and musical/mystical traditions across southern Pakistan. This geography, marked by state brutality and militarism, environmental devastation and extractivism, is loud in its “ecstatic grief,” where sacral states journey alongside the coast’s multiple adversities and raucous belongings. Here, the ocean, the river, the boatman and the boat are all recurrent motifs – as obstacles, as vessels, as companions, as bridges, as guides.

Samandari Ehsaasat / Oceanic Feelings #3 was originally commissioned for A Thousand Channels, an audio series by Syma Tariq produced with the festival Colomboscope 2022.

Colomboscope 2021

Sound Ecology invites Zahra Malkani: Samandari Ehsaasat / Oceanic Feelings #3 [2021]

Tracklist:

Terry Riley - A Dervesh In The Nursery (Francisco Morgan remix)
Francisco Morgan - Marching Madness
Rick Ross - Hold Me Back (Francisco Morgan broken drill remix)
Sunn O))) - Frost (C) (Francisco Morgan mix)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor - IV
Ayub Ogada - Kothbiro (Francisco Morgan dub)
Freddie Hubbard - Brigitte

Event: Live at El Pumarejo w/ DA ROCHA UM, NUEEN, AKAZIE, SUNNY GRAVES & AIRE.

Live at El Pumarejo (Bcn) - 20.05.23

Sorrow, joy, everyday lives, longing, celebration, metaphors, love, loss, everything between, beyond - Jari, Shari, Murshidi, Bhatiali, Bhawaiya, and more, stems from the rivers.

There’s a phrase we memorized in school, Bangladesh is a riverine country. There’s another phrase which translates to Fish and Rice makes a Bengali. My lineage is from the bank of the Brahmaputra river, famous for Bhatiali music, and partition migration. Do you know how the rivers were divided?

When analog cameras were part of the mainstream culture, we took a photo at the ferry, the man was looking at the stream, which washed off his wife’s grave, during the war, we went to someone’s place to stay for some days, can’t remember for how long but there’s a faint image, of us on the boat, in the river, waiting to be.

The Bengal delta is considered as the biggest delta in the world. The delta plain, about 350-km wide along the Bay of Bengal, is formed by the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna. The region of Bengal has been traumatized few times in known history, (Partition of Bengal, Partition of India, Genocide of 1971, Bengal Famine); the rivers of Bengal attest to the horrific accounts of millions.

“Everything happened on the boat, in the river”

One of my grandparents nicknamed me as Dingyi, which is a type of a boat.

Photo by Sarker Protick (@sarkerprotick)
Technical fix by Adittya Arzu (@siaminium)

p.s. if anyone finds any information incorrect, (perhaps what i think is bhatiali is actually bhawaiya) do contact me.

1. Gorai Nodir Teerey, Poem by Jasimuddin, Performed by two4.41139 2. Aage Janinere Doyal, Palligeeti, Performed by Bari Siddiqui  3. Shorbonasha Padma Nodi, Bhawaiya Performed by Abdul Alim 4. Ujan Ganger Naiya, Bhatiali, Performed by Nina Hamid 5. Oi Ekbar, Bhawaiya, Performed by Abbasuddin Ahmed 6. Fande Poriya, Bhawaiya, Performed by Abbasuddin Ahmed 7. O Bashi Bashire, Performed by Mina Barua, Sabina Yasmin 8. O Rongila Naoer Majhi, Bhatiali, Performed by Abbasuddin Ahmed 9. Nimer Dotora Tui More, Bhawaiya, Performed by Ferdousi Rahman 10. Chodo Chodo Dheu Tuli, Chatgaiya, Performed by Shefali Ghosh  11. Titas Ekti Nodir Nam, Film by Ritwik Ghatak, Excerpt 12. Bhatiali Dhun, Performed by Ronu Majumdar and Debojyoti Bose

Rivers of Bengal w/ Avita Maheen | two4.41139 ; Ep1

In this song, Kabir, the weaver poet, evocatively describes the journey that a finely knit cloth goes through – weaving, washing, dying – and deftly ties it up with the fabric of our own body-selves. Fools can sully this subtle fabric of being. Says Kabir – beware, wear your precious body with care.

Mukhtiyar Ali - Chadariya Jheeni Re Jheeni

Synth: DSK SF2
Effects: Artificial Audio Obelisk, GRM Evolution, GlimmerVerb.

Threnlothran

A Summer In Discostan

This song includes the vocal acapella from “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See” by Busta Rhymes and a sample from “Ni Main Samajhh Gayi” by A.R. Rahman from the film “Taal”. All rights reserved by the respective creators.

Artwork by Arul Kacker and Akansha Kukreja.

Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/Put-Ur-Hands-BC
YouTube: http://bit.ly/Put-Ur-Hands-YT

PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE MY EYES CAN SEE (CAREFUL WALKER EDIT)

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songs from & and inspired by disco & funk from the SWANA/SA diasporas

Yalla Disco!

from ZEHRA001
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Sound Ecology invites Zahra Malkani: Samandari Ehsaasat / Oceanic Feelings #3 [2021]

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