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Pathaney Khan: Vol 1 (Audio CD)
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Pathaney Khan belonged to the tradition of the roving
minstrels who performed over the centuries at religious and
secular festivals all over the northern half of the
Subcontinent. Accompanied initially by the iktara and later
by other instruments, the audience was wafted into a world
of music and poetry.
The dominant poetical form in Punjabi and Sindhi has been
the Kafi. It has been sung from a very early time, though in
the absence of any documentary evidence, it is difficult to
say how Kafi developed its musical form. In the poetical
text of Shah Hussain, a 16th century poet, raags mentioned
in the footnotes for each Kafi more than suggest that Kafis
were meant to be sung. The written text of Hussain’s Kafis
was discovered and reclaimed from Sindh, while the same
Kafis had been transmitted orally from generation to
generation in the Punjab by the large community of singers."
Himal, June 2000 |
