Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar - Raga Kedar [2007] torrent

Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar - Raga Kedar [2007]

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RAAG PARICHAY / DESCRIPTION:

Kedar, an ancient (among our oldest raags), all time popular, late evening raag, complex, rich, and uplifting, named after the lord Shiva, or Kedar Nath who is the Lord of deep silence, of serious contemplation, the Destroyer, a formidable deity of ascetic temperament.
As such, the raag is considered to be amongst the more profound raags of the Hindustani system. In order to preserve its profundity, the musician is required to present it with a certain reverence and deliberateness. This prescription is confirmed by the raag's complex vakra [zigzag] phraseology, which would suffer a degree of "flattening out" at higher levels of swara-density.
It is performed very frequently across many gharanas and styles, with different genres of classical songs, like khayals, thumris, dhrupads, to dhamars, and semi-classical pieces, as well as light classical songs & bhajans. It is characterized by its intoxicating and soothing melody.
At an another level, Kedar’s Sanskrit meanings, ‘Mountain Lord’ and ‘Powerful’. Many Muslims instinctively say ‘Qadir’ instead of ‘Kedar’. Qadir is one of Allah’s Names. There is a consonance - Qadir means ‘samarth’ or One Who Can Do Anything. Another way of saying ‘Powerful’… Moreover, Kedar as the silent young ascetic connects with the Beatles’ Fool on the Hill, who sees the world spinning round in total silence, who never seems to answer. But in his silence, he knows what he knows. He hears God’s voice. Many feel that Raag Kedar lets us hear it, too.

Kedar, which rejoices in the beautiful name Hamir Kalyani in the Carnatic system, is a profoundly abstract raag, not easily “visualised”. The medieval Raagmala paintings depict Kedar as a young ascetic “beauteous in every limb”, his face luminous with a spiritual glow, his body smeared with ashes, doing penance before Shiva. Scholars would know better, but if ever a mudra assigns itself to Kedar it would be the “chhinn mudra”, of forefinger and thumb meeting to form a pointed antelope’s head: The mudra of cosmic search frequently depicted on Sakyamuni by sculptors and painters.
It is generally accepted that there is much thermal energy in this melody and hence it is regarded as the Raagini of Raag Deepak.

Kedar is amongst the most popular post-sunset raags.

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