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Monday, 18. December 2006

Morning Music



I woke up this morning dreaming something disturbing; it must have been all that red wine, sugar and chocolate I imbibed at the dinner to which I was invited to last evening. While I didn't find myself transformed into a giant beetle, nonethless there is a heaviness in the body and the mind that I am trying to cure with Abida's singing the genius of Khusro's sufiyana*.

* Please leave a comment if you know of a decent biography of Khusro that I can read.




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beautiful!!! we couldn't tempt you to translate could we? how about "chaap tilak sab"?

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Sufis Don't


translate well really, given that their words are too musical, at the edge of spontaneous song. I have tried my hand at this previously, and was pretty dissatisfied with what came out.

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I agree. The translation was very good, but it did lose the dynamic feel of the music. I guess it does not translate like a ghazal, which is what I was thinking of. Still, very beautiful music!!

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