Samvedna

"Door kahi..koi rota hai... tan par pahra...bhatak raha man...sathi hai keval soonapan...
bichhad gaya kya....swajan kisi ka.....krandan sada...karun hota hai....


Janam divas par...hum ithalate....kyun na maran tyohar manate...
Antim yatra ke avasar par...aansu ka ashakun hota hai".... (From album 'Samvedna')


When Atalji penned this poem during the emergency..(as described by him in the prelude)...in all probability...he wouldn't have imagined that his deep thoughts will be composed so beautifully..so aesthetically...yet so simply..! Jagjit Singh composed the music and sang it such that....these simple words just got dissolved in the veins...permeated right through...!! - Don't know if I am able to express myself here properly...
What use of Violin, Strings and Flute...subtle and beautiful...contributing in bringing out the right emotions... A sense of peace...melancholy...a sense of loss....everything..!!


"Ek baras beet gaya.... Ek baras beet gaya.....
Jhulsata jeth maas...sharad chandni udaas....
siski bharte saavan ka....antar ghat reet gaya...


Path niharte nayan....ginte din palchhin..
laut kabhi ayega...man ka jo meet gaya..."


Beautiful words by Atalji...( His style of saying 'siski bharte savan ka antar ghat reet gaya' ..is just awesome! :-) I still remember his election rally some 15 odd years back..when he came to Jabalpur...never have seen any better orator than him!) and Jagjit sang in a very slow tempo...and in low scale...as if the world has stopped and you have all the time to watch it..feel it...feel the 'jhulsata jeth maas', the brutal Indian Sun of May-June...feel the 'sharad chandni'....the winter sky filled with stars..!


Most of the poems of the album Samvedna, are in slow tempo...are of philosophical demeanor...but the music grows on you. Every song starts with a small commentary by Atalji where he either gives a little background of time when he wrote that poem or he utters the first 2 lines of his poem in his unparalleled & relaxed style. These songs remind me of my initial days in UK's chilling winters...some memories to remember!