Ghazal from Raj Mohan's album " Main ghazal hoon' (Pan Records)
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Main Jaam Utha Raha Tha

Pop song from Raj Mohan's album Daayra: www.daayra.nl

Jab aawa jaahi

Kaise boli

Daayra

Dutch poem 'Suriname' from the Surinamese poet Shrinivasi. Translated, composed and performed by Raj Mohan. 
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I Des Ham Chun Leli (Suriname)

Dui Mutthi
140 years of Indian migration to Surinam 

Dui mutthi is after Kantráki and Daayra Raj Mohan’s  third album with songs in his mother tongue Sarnámi-Bhojpuri.
This album contains songs about the history of Indian migration to Surinam.

The first Hindustani indentured labourers from British India arrived by ship on June 5th 1873 in Surinam (Dutch Guyana). The Day of Immigration is still celebrated today by Hindustani in Surinam and The Netherlands.
Transportation of Indian labourers to Surinam by the Dutch began under an agreement. Labourers were signed up for five years and were provided with a return passage at the end of this term or could stay in Surinam where they got a piece of land of their own.
The period of Hindustani indentured labour ship lasted from 1873 to 1916, and over 35,000 Hindustani arrived from British India to Surinam. About one third of them returned to their homelands after their agreement. The rest remained in Surinam and 50% of their descendants is based in The Netherlands.

The song Dui mutthi is about their journey from India to Surinam, the deception, hope, injustice, their pain and their disappointment.


01 Dui mutthi 				        5.33
02 Jumpa Rajguru 				5.02
03 Kantráki 					4.20
04 I des ham chun leli – Suriname 	3.09

Jumpa Rajguru: ft. ArunA 

musicians

-	Raj Mohan: vocals
-	ArunA: vocals track 02
-	Lourens van Haaften: guitars
-	Pim van Ham: drums & percussion
-	Suresh Sardjoe: tabla
-	Mark Alban Lotz: flutes 
-	Marco van Os: double bass
-	Zapp4 String Quartet: 
        Jasper le Clercq: violin, Jeffrey Bruinsma: violin,
        Oene van Geel: viola, Jörg Brinkmann: cello
-	Floor Wittink: saxophones
-	Brechtje Roos: recorder
-	Hermine Schneider: flugelhorn

arrangers: 
-	Aart de Jong: Dui mutthi
-	Danny Weijermans: Jumpa Rajguru & Kantráki
-	Wim van Binsbergen: I des ham chun leli - Suriname 

produced by Raj Mohan & Aart de Jong

recording dates:
March-April 2013

All songs written and composed by Raj Mohan
I des ham chun leli – Suriname: poem ‘Suriname’ by Shrinivasi translated by Raj Mohan

Studio: KlankTank
Engineer: Aart de Jong (KlankTank)
Mastering: Peter Brussee (Q Point)
Cover art: Muhi Gaffer


Special thanks to:
Stichting Diaspora Leerstoel Lalla Rookh & Sarnamihuis
NFPK, Stichting Poorvi, Rahul Samlal, Fazia Tewarie-Abdulhak, Inderdew Sewrajsing Omprakash Gobardhan

Dui mutthi (Raj Mohan) Pan Records

Raj Mohan 

As a Geet/Ghazal/Bhajan/Pop singer, composer, singer songwriter and poet Raj Mohan is established since the last 30 years as the finest Sarnámi artist in The Netherlands and Surinam. 
As a singer and poet in the Sarnámi-Bhojpuri language he travels to Suriname, French Guyana, South Africa, Mauritius, India and several European countries to perform.
In 2011 he released his 1st pop album with Sarnami-Bhojuri lyrics together with Hindi songs and poems which he all writes and composes himself. It’s the first time in the Surinamese history the Surinam Bhojpuri is utilized in this contemporary form. 
Raj Mohan invented the Sarnámi-Bhojpori Geet in the Geet & Ghazal style which appreciated worldwide with his album ‘Kantráki’ (2005). The Geet/Ghazalnuma songs are performed by Raj in the traditional Ghazal setting as well as in jazz and pop (Album: Daayra, 2011). Which is remarkable.

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