#nepali folk song

[samaya-samachar]

लोकदोहोरीमा दुई अर्थ लाग्ने छाडा शब्द म चैँ स्विकार्दिन

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#art and entertainment #Kripa Bhandari #Nepali Folk songs #Nepali music #Nepali singers #Sharmila Gurung #Youtube

[itstacharya]

लोकदोहोरीमा दुई अर्थ लाग्ने छाडा शब्द म चैँ स्विकार्दिन

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#art and entertainment #Kripa Bhandari #Nepali Folk songs #Nepali music #Nepali singers #Sharmila Gurung #Youtube

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (12 Sep-18 Sep 2021)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😍 The Downsides to a Secret Identity (liodain) - 42K, SuperBat - Clark's not into Bruce but very into Batman, Bruce is very into Clark but kinda hates Superman, and Lex Luthor is definitely up to something shady af.

😍😍 bene castigat series (Nonymos) - shrinkyclinks, 69K - forever fave BDSM fic with smol Dom Steve and a beefy subby Bucky, plus Natasha, Clint & Sam. Truly perfection.

😍 Tommy Cabot Was Here (The Cabots #1) (Cat Sebastian) - reread of this fantastic historical 2nd chance romance novella with not a huge amount of plot, a medium amount of angst and a whole lot of vibes. Eleventy stars.

😍 Peter Cabot Gets Lost (The Cabots #2) (Cat Sebastian) - a grumpy/sunshine enemies-to-lovers road trip with little action, big vibes? YES PLEASE.

😊 Plain and Tall (destielpasta, mtothedestiel) - 69K, Destiel western/homesteading AU - I have no shame in admitting I love a Little House on the Prairie AU

plus 239K of shorter fic so shorter work shout out:

true leadership, rainbow laces, short shorts, and a small cause for a national scandal (foghornjazz) - The Witcher: Geraskier, 11K - modern footballer AU (me, reading a football AU: Ted Lasso has a lot to fucking answer for.)

Your (ridiculous) eyelashes will write (a stupid poem) on my heart (powerfulowl (StuckyFlangst)) - MCU: Stucky, 8K - shrunkyclunks, bartender Bucky

Here Come the Dreams (PorcupineGirl) - Check Please!: Zimbits, 26K - let me reiterate: I am always here for baker!Bitter and NHL’er Jack

Gone Fishing (liodain) - DCEU: SuperBat, 2K - Bruce thinks the JL needs a team-building exercise in the woods. Just super funny.

[Podfic] unsportsmanlike conduct (quietnight; steebadore) - Stucky, 1.6K - the one that describes Steve’s hair as duckling fluff

[Podfic] Boeuf Mystère (quietnight) - Stucky, 1.2K

[Podfic] Chuck Roast (quietnight) - Stucky, 5K - sequel to Boeuf Mystère; Leverage crossover

champagne problems (sunset_phantom) - Julie and The Phantoms: Julie/Luke, 6K - suuuuper cute and romantic aged up fic

A warlord with a dark secret. His defiant captive, who burns for his touch. A smoldering passion will ignite when they surrender to their… (Helenish) - X-Men: Cherik, 9K - a delightful ‘80s style romance novel with an appropriate x-men slant; just a lot of fun

AND ALSO THESE ESSAYS/ARTICLES I REALLY LIKED

Is Becky Chambers the Ultimate Hope for Science Fiction?

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Blown Away - s2, e1-2

Legends of Tomorrow - s3, e10-12

Only Murders In The Building - s1, e1-5

Star Trek: Discovery - s1, e5-8

Ted Lasso - s2, ep9

Ghosts - s3, e1-3

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Twenty Thousand Hertz - THX Deep Note, Pt 1 & 2

Strong Songs - "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" from The Witcher

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings And What's Making Us Happy

Overinvested - Ep. 227: Strictly Ballroom

Strong Songs - "Tiny Dancer" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John

Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein - Pearl Mackie

Strong Songs - "Satisfied" from Hamilton (Updated!)

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Brooklyn Nine-Nine

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Åtvidaberg Sun Cannon

Strong Songs - "Barracuda" by Heart

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Only Murders In The Building

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

Twenty Thousand Hertz - Being George Clooney

Strong Songs - "Tom Sawyer" by Rush

99% Invisible - 458- Real Fake Bridges

Ologies with Alie Ward - Ciderology (DELICIOUS APPLE BEVERAGE) with Gabe Cook

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Nepali Folk Musical Instrument Museum

FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH Patreon Crew! - Mandip Gill

Strong Songs - Strong Covers, Vol. 1

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Ted Lasso

Twenty Thousand Hertz - Listening to the Movies

Pop Culture Happy Hour - What We Do In The Shadows

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Magical Summer Memories Vol. 2 – Via Francigena

FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH Patreon Crew! - Edgar Wright Pt 1 & 2

Strong Songs - "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" by Billy Joel

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Mirror Lab

Strong Songs - "Making Christmas" from The Nightmare Before Christmas

FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH Patreon Crew! - Yvette Nicole Brown

Strong Songs -"I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Julie and The Phantoms (Season 1 soundtrack)

Presenting Rihanna

Rocketman (Music From The Motion Picture)

"Return of the Mack" [Mark Morrison] radio

Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

The Hamilton Instrumentals

I ❤️ Heart

Rush

Gordon Lightfoot

Instrumental Beatles Covers

Instrumental Dancehall Riddims

The Hamilton Instrumentals

MONTERO

Instrumental Rock From Brazil

Presenting Billy Joel

#sunday reading recap #bookgeekgrrl's reading habits #bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks #new cat sebastian always makes the week better #fanfic ftw #twenty thousand hertz podcast #strong songs podcast #overinvested podcast #npr's pop culture happy hour podcast #films to be buried with podcast #99% invisible podcast #ologies podcast #i am almost caught up on films to be buried with and strong songs #atlas obscura podcast #fan makers are a *gift*

[ofherlionheart]

reasonable bedtime is an excellent priority; thank u for answering!!! listening to AAPI artists in a mini identity crisis is also hugely relatable n prob a huge part of why the boo chronicles speaks 2 me so strongly. def gonna check out ur music recs!

omg of course!! can i take this as an excuse to blab more abt AAPI musicians?? i love gassing up AAPI creators who don’t even know me lmfao. artist names will link to youtube vids of specific songs b/c im nothing if not comprehensive

we all know by now that i never shut up abt AUDREY NUNA but it’s honestly thanks to REI AMI that i ever awakened to the fact that there are folks from my community who are making mind-blowing, sometimes unhinged music. both audrey and rei are korean american; rei was born in korea and immigrated to the US when she was p young. they’re also both in the“anti-pop” category—lots of pop and r&b influences, but not quite either of those genres. another anti-pop baby is curtis waters, who’s a nepal-born, germany/canada-raised nepali-canadian.

keshi is vietnamese-american, born and raised in texas in a primarily chinese community, iirc. mega softboi/fuccboi vibes, but in a way that slaps. he’s collabed with rei brown, who’s japanese-american. and when i think of keshi’s slower/softer songs, i also think of sylo nozra (korean-canadian), luke chiang, and this lovely collab (dane amar, who’s laotian-american, and jereena montemayor, who’s filipina).

i love charli xcx, who’s mixed indian and scottish, b/c she goes off the rails like audrey and rei but usually in a dance-y major key. rina sawayama (japanese-british) does both, and she’s queer! yaeji, a korean-american DJ, also does dance/electronic. similarly upbeat vibe to these three is priya ragu, who’s tamil-swiss.

more incredible mixed women: saweetie, who’s Black-filipina-chinese. im obsessed with this collab saweetie did w/ jhené aiko, who’s also mixed. and then jhené did this collab with H.E.R., who’s Black-filipina and another incred artist in her own right. UMI is Black-japanese and delivers some of the sweetest, softest songs. tsunari is a uk-born, thailand-raised, thai-british-trinidadian artist—her stuff is transcendental.

for more rap/hip-hop/r&b: bohan phoenix (chinese-american), brb. (singaporean), agust d (korean), kris wu (chinese-canadian)

uh uh more indie/alt/bedroom pop artists: spill tab (french-korean), SASAMI (korean-japanese-american), DADARAY (japanese—their bassist was on terrace house: opening new doors), japanese breakfast (who’s the mixed korean-white american author of crying in h-mart, which was recently expanded into a full memoir), olivia rodrigo (mixed filipina-white)

and this is all, like, a sampler. there is so much fantastic music out there by aapi artists!! if links like this are annoying (lol), check out spotify’s jasmine, dope af, and aapi pride playlists.

#yes i know that making a playlist would probs be quicker but y'all don't get to know my real name #i also want to say that im pointing out race/ethnicity/nationality here only to emphasize how diverse and diasporic AAPI community is #these artists can't be boiled down to just their racial/ethnic identity or nationality #thank u for reading if u did #double thank u if u actually check out some of these songs!!

[superlinguo]

New research article: "The bus doesn’t stop for us”: Multilingualism, attitudes and identity in songs of a Tibetic community of Nepal - in Multilingua

This article looks at songs sung by Syuba speakers to understand how they see themselves, their community and their language. This work draws on the songs in the corpus of Syuba that I’ve been working on since 2014, and other collections of songs put together by Syuba speakers. 

One of the nice things about working with songs is that people make deliberate choices about the stories they want to tell in these songs. By looking at a combination of original compositions, folk songs and religious songs we see that people represent a complex identity that is Syuba and also Yolmo, Tibetan and Nepali. We look at how these identities intersect with people’s understanding of local and larger geographies, and the changes that occur with development.

This article is a collaboration with two colleagues: Gerald Roche, an anthropologist with interests in multilingualism and the relationship between language and identity in Tibetan communities, and Ruth Gamble, a historian with expertise in Tibetan poetry and the environment.

It was so nice to spend so much time listening to the songs performed by Syuba speakers, and thinking about the stories that they share. In many ways this paper is the local context to the larger political reality described in my recent paper about International Relations in the Himalaya with this team and Alex Davis.

Abstract

This paper draws on song texts from two corpora of Syuba, a Southern Tibetic language of Nepal. The songs have rich, interlinking themes relevant to language, identity and the situated context of Syuba people. We draw upon the texts to illustrate themes of identity, relationship, language, development and space. This analysis is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach bringing together linguistic, anthropological and historical perspectives. Through these themes, we come to a nuanced account of a minority language group, who see themselves as Syuba, Yolmo, Tibetan and Nepali, and how these multiple identities co-exist.

Citation

Gawne, L., G. Roche & R. Gamble. “The bus doesn’t stop for us”: Multilingualism, attitudes and identity in songs of a Tibetic community of Nepal. Multilingua. 1-31. doi: 10.1515/multi-2020-0026

[Green Open Access PDF available here]

#linguistics #language #nepal #song #songs #tibetan #tibetic #multilingualism #syuba #yolmo

[4deathme]

Motherspaceship

It’s 5:39am here in Kathmandu, Nepal, me and few of my team we’re still dialing for some PST zone campaign like in California. The music that’s been playing on the background right now is ‘Steal my heart away by The Paper Kites’, and of course i put that indie folk music. One of my friend sitting beside to me always complains (Jokingly)that I put on music that’s completely alien to them, because i play music like from different bedroom pop artist, or indie rock or Hip-hop music. And i answer him back by saying that ‘it’s him who’s unaware of that music, not that i put different music, and it’s obviously about the music taste as well’. They always mainstream music or some Nepali music which i really don’t like haha.. Seriously, they say that I was only born in Nepal, but listen completely different music from many different countries, but hardly listens to Nepali, which  agree with them. It’s not that i don’t like Nepali music, i do, but not the pop music or stupid songs. 

Anyways, today was the last day of the third week of the month, now we got one more week to go along with 3 more working days, and then we’re done for the month of March. It always feels like time is running in a speed of light while working in night shift in Call center. I’m just sometime scared that I don’t want to have a regret someday like i just did nothing so progressive in my career or lets say in my life that helped to be by myself or as reborn as a new person.. idk wtf that even means.. 

But, seriously dude, i do enjoy working on the platform where it’s carefree zone, where the pressure i feel comes within myself, as i have my own target and want to exceed it. Since my past jobs in many different companies, i have always been rebellious, you know. I am hard working, or let’s say I’m fucking trying my best, and even with that if the CEO’s or the Manager’s gets in my nerves, pressurizing on the basis of my performances, i have a habit of firing back whatever the fuck when they tries to question me on my performance.  Even though when i was at the position of Team leader or Project Manager, when i had to lead my team and come up with good results, if there were to be injustice to the employee, whether, be the raise on the salary, or firing them or this or that, i used to stood for them.. blah blah blah fuck all of these stuff. I really hate selfish, and mean companies who only think about their own profit and their own growth. All of these fucking mature people just try to take an advantage of teens. I’ve seen that, I’ve been there, i went though lotta bullshit throughout my life. 

 I have lots of story to tell, the only reason, I’m writing this blogs is that i wont be losing it ever, bcus on the paper on diary , it can get lost, but here, i can restore all of my memories and events. Should i just keep all of the blogs to myself, or share with some of my friends idk, i don’t want anyone to have a sympathy on me bcus they just be like “oh poor, boy, he went through this and that, how sad’ and the next couple of days or weeks, they don’t really give a fuck a bout you. It’s all good bcus i don’t give a fuck about them too. 

Ok, ok i’m cursing a lot today haha, sorry for that, anyways, after 10 or 20 mins imm outta here and go watch some anime or some space news aliens stuff oou man i’m really into that. I wish how Aliens shows up on Huge mother spaceship and fucking invade our planet like it’s fucking movie. Imagine that, no more working, no more sadness, depression, love , hate whatever, we would only think about how to avoid thos mf and stay alive. Hmmm sounds so , fantastical Sci-fi  right? haha yeah i know. Don’t think i just watched World War Z ok haha. 

Lol, anyways i was already done dialing but i remembered i had to call back on some Mexican restro, and did all back on Cali, and got an app for Tuesday, but the reason that i’m amused is the owner that spoke with was quite charming and chil guy who had bit hard understanding in English, and was saying that he was gonna be busy or he’s not being able to follow me up in the converstation, but anyways, i did tried my best to make him understand about our campaign, hope the recording is well qualified and will go though the Dashboard, haha. 

Ok i’m done for now, i’ll be leaving anytime soon, and once i reach home, i’ll be drinking some coffee, and for the breakfast maybe Sausage roll from the cafe that’ nearby. And watch some weird fucking shit on Netflix or on Youtube, or anime. We’ll see about that one.

SO YEAHH!!! 

[maheshpun]

GANJA KO SAHARA | Bikyy Karki | Official Lyrical Video | New Nepali Folk Song 2017

GANJA KO SAHARA | Bikyy Karki | Official Lyrical Video | New Nepali Folk Song 2017

GANJA KO SAHARA | Bikyy Karki

New Nepali Lyrical Video Song – Ganja Ko Sahara Vocal/Lyrics/Music – Bikyy Karki Arranger/Guitar Work – Rikesh Gurung Keys Mix/Master – Ujjawal Shreyan Mahat Recordist/Graphics – Rangeet Ballav Uprety Sarangi – Prince Nepali Studio – Kripa Drishya Digital This song is dedicated to all the people out there who lost their closest ones. *Please support Nepali music…

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[asthavinash]

Dzongu. 

On my 5th day in Sikkim, I visited this small village in the north of Sikkim, it is a protected area for the Lepcha community who call themselves the original indigenous people of Sikkim. The bhutias and the nepalis have come to settle later. The road to Dzongu, like none other was long and winding of course, but also full of scenic views. Absolutely calm and serene untouched and unexploited by unwanted human presence. On the way you almost get intimidated by how minuscule our existence is as compared to these extremely massive, broad and proud mountains.

After 2.5 hours of ride, we finally enter Dzongu, also to mention how strict the rules are as its is a protected land and we needed a permit letter to enter the area. The orange festival called the “changla dambro” was in a small village called “Gnon”. On our way we saw so many orange orchards, more oranges than leaves. (exaggerating a bit, but you do get a feel of what I am saying). Four of us, very evidently outsiders were looking at the hustle before the event was yet to begin.The locals calling each other from the top of the hill to the bottom, cutting some bamboos, arranging some stalls, beautiful women dressed in their traditional attire. It was beautiful just as a sight.

After settling in, we started looking at the baskets of oranges kept in front of us. So tempted to grab one and eat, we waited till the locals would take it too. Turns out it is no novelty for them hence they were not as excited to take the freshly picked, organic, beautiful oranges that were kept in front of them. Alas! ran out of our patience and temptation, we picked and savoured ourselves.

Orange harvest was a reason to have come together and enjoy natural locally produced food, play traditional games, and enjoy dancing together. One by one the children, dressed in beautiful traditional attires, (handwoven out of nettle fibres) started dancing to absolutely melodious Nepali and Lepcha folk music. trying to absorb this close knitted community as it is, I was also trying to analyse how united everyone seemed. Was it the music that bound them together? was it their closeness to their culture? was it because it was a small town and the interdependency? was it their education system? Was is their proximity to the forest that they had to be interdependent in ways more than one? 

We were there for two days and everyone was still very formal with us. we needed to break that ice. It was almost past dawn and the dj started playing and all were dancing. What better way to break the ice, started dancing onto Nepali songs. Was beautiful amidst the trees, mountains and in the far corners of the valleys a bunch of Lepchas and fours kids from ‘Gangtok’ (as now I must say) are dancing. After that 3 hours of exhausting dancing, we had made some good friends who were our hosts and guides for the whole of next day. haha XD. Also made me think for a bit? Will I be this enthusiastic about taking pride in Gujarati folklore? Will I ever get a chance to dance with my people (But as a second generation person who has always grown up in a city, who are ‘my’ people) in the villages of Gujarat? Will I ever be connected to my culture the way these children are? 

[nepalisongslyrics]

GHINTANG GHINTANG MADAL BAJYO Lyrics (घिन्ताङ घिन्ताङ मादल बज्यो )

GHINTANG GHINTANG MADAL BAJYO Lyrics (घिन्ताङ घिन्ताङ मादल बज्यो ) #oldnepalisong #evergreenNepalisong #nepalisonglyrics

GHINTANG GHINTANG MADAL BAJYO Lyrics & Song Details: Song GHINTANG GHINTANG MADAL BAJYO koshi kinarai ma is sung by Dil Rasil, Nawin Kumar Khadka & Kamal Bahadur Khatri and written by lmn

Song TitleGHINTANG GHINTANG MADAL BAJYOSingerDil Rasil, Nawin Kumar Khadka & Kamal Bahadur KhatriResearch & CollectionDil RasilMusicNawin Kumar KhadkaComposeN/AMusic Video GHINTANG GHINTANG MADAL BAJYO Lyrics

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#Ghintang ghintang madal bajyo koshi kinarai ma #Ghintang ghintang madal bajyo koshi kinarai ma lyrics #Ghintang ghintang madal bajyo lyrics #Nepali folk song #old Nepali folk song lyrics #Old nepali songs #Purbeli song

[repalrocks]

सालैको पातैले

दिए खान्थें मायाको दाहिने हातैले

स्वर : प्रेम राजा महत, सूर्यकुमारी र पवित्रा थापा

#Salaiko Pataile #Prem Raja Mahat #Surya Kumari #Pabitra Thapa #Nepali Folk Song #Nepali Old Song

[globalworship]

Reason for rejoicing: Jesus' name (Nepali song)

This is the second track from the third album by Adrian Dewan, a prolific composer and worship leader in Nepal. He is talented in composing in multiple musical styles; this song is in a popular genre of Nepali folk music (in 6/8). John Singh’s bansuri flute also accentuates the Nepali folk music genre.

The title is ‘Ramaune Kaaran’ रमाउने कारण (येशूको नाम)३ ‘Reason for Rejoicing (Jesus’ Name)

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रमाउने कारण (येशूको नाम)३ उहाँ आउनुभो मानिस भएर बचाउनुभो क्रूशैमा चढेर डाँडाहरु खुशी भई गीत गाए र रमाए रुखहरू ताली बजाई तालमा ताल मिलाए सललल खोला बग्यो चिरी बिरी चरी गायो परमेश्वरको काम देखी सारा प्रकृती रमायो सिरिरिरि बतास बग्यो मनको पिर उडाई लग्यो निलो आकाशैमा आज मलाई उडु उडु लाग्यो उहाँ आउनुभो मानिस भएर बचाउनुभो क्रूशैमा चढेर

Jesus is the reason for our rejoicing He became a man and came to us,  saved us by dying on the cross... The mountains sang and rejoiced with joy The trees clapped and clapped Sing the song, "Sing the song!" All nature rejoiced over the work of God gently flowing breeze takes away my heart's worries, and I feel like flying in the blue sky He became a man and came to us,  saved us by dying on the cross...

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मृत्यु अनि पुनरुत्थान  द्वारा आफ्नो ख्रीष्ट येशूले सबै थोकहरु माथि अधिकार प्राप्त गरे समुन्द्रका गहिरा गहिरा स्थानहरु वहाँकै हुन पृथ्वीका अग्ला अग्ला हिमालहरु वहाँकै हुन आकाशका ताराहरु वहाँकै गुनगान गाउँछ्न खोला नाला जंगल झरना सबै वहाँमा रमाउँछन उहाँ आउनुभो मानिस भएर बचाउनुभो क्रूशैमा चढेर

Through His death and resurrection, Jesus acquired authority over all creation, The depths of seas are His, All high mountains on earth are His, the starry host sings His praises, Streams, forests, waterfalls, all rejoice in Him, He became a man and came to us,  saved us by dying on the cross...

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रमाउने कारण (येशूको नाम)३ उहाँ मर्नुभो पापलाई लिएर बौरी उठ्नुभो विजय भएर

Jesus is the reason for our rejoicing He died taking away our sins, rose again from the dead in victory

All rights reserved © Ramaune Kaaran 2019

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https://www.facebook.com/minstrelforheaven/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Mp1NR8zEzU1qHVRWGWx0A

Here are excerpts from Adrian’s bio at his website:

I grew up in a small town called Pedong in Darjeeling [in the foothills of the Himalayas in India]. I had to start leading worship in the church quite early in my life because there was no one else to take that responsibility at that particular time. I still remember struggling to learn one typical Nepali rhythm the whole night because I had to sing the next day. I got a chance to grow under very gracious leadership [for which I thank the Lord] so got enough space to make mistakes and learn to develop myself into whatever I am today [Still Learning, still making mistakes]. God is good who calls us to fulfill His good purpose in this life and in this world through the gifts and abilities He has given us. I am learning to walk with Him.

I began writing songs in 2002, at the age of 14. Currently I am a worship leader at CrossWay Community Church, Kathmandu.

https://adriandewan.com/about

[itstacharya]

SARANGI The perfectly harmonised words with the music produced from the strings of Sarangi, a Gaine (person who sings by playing the Sarangi)

#art and culture #best music #betrayed lovers #death and sorrow #Gaine #human destiny #life and death #music #Musical instrument #Nepali folk song #oldest musical instrument #Sarangi #society and culture

[lanternheart]

 answer 21 questions and tag 21 people !

★ tagged by: both @percvshelley and @literaetures! thank you, both.

★ nickname: dee, bean.

★ zodiac: taurus sun.

★ height: 5′3″ish

★ last movie i saw: the favourite

★ last thing i googled: “office depot” ---- i needed to order photo paper!

★ favorite musician: colin meloy, liszt, iron and wine, scott joplin, florence welch, bon iver? that seems like a good mix.

★ song stuck in my head: "call it dreaming” by iron and wine.

★ other blogs: none at the moment, no.

★ do i get asks: very rarely? usually, if someone wants to talk to me, i know them a bit already so we’ll message instead.

★ following: 196

★ followers: 612

★ amount of sleep: usually between seven and nine hours ---- i’m hideous in the morning if i don’t get enough.

★ lucky number: i wouldn’t say i have a lucky number? i do joke that it’s thirteen, though, because that’s my birthday.

★ what i’m wearing: navy chinos, maroon socks with oak leaves on them, and a light-green thermal shirt.

★ dream job: artist and writer, able to make a decent enough living out of both without necessarily relying on a partner.

★ dream trip: right now? a little bit of everywhere and then some. i’d especially love to visit the historical sites in my general area of the country ---- there’s a lot of literary history in new england that i’d love to swing around.

★ favorite food: greek food, indian, and nepali. on an everyday basis, does tea count?

★ play any instruments: semi-proficiently? piano and viola. beginner-ish? guitar.

★ language: english, and i can listen and write some spanish, but speaking it is still a little clunky.

★ favorite song: “rise,” by eddie vedder, “don’t carry it all” by the decemberists, “liebestraume no.3 in a-flat major s.54″ by franz liszt, “when tomorrow comes,” which i’ve heard done by jacqueline schwab but i’m pretty sure is a folk song or hymnal (i’ve only heard it piano).

★ random fact: my birth middle name was for a writer in our family, and luckily we’ve had at least two! so, when i switched names, i swapped her out for a new name, jack, which is still my middle name. he was a novelist, and we’ve even got a few of his books lying around at home.

★ describe yourself in an aesthetic: perpetually inky fingers, tartan scarves, worn and muddied boots, the smell of rosemary and spices and the outdoors, pine trees, that jar of old seashells that sits on your desk, or the line of them on the windowsill, postcards and saved letters, dirty paintbrushes and barely-legible cursive scrawl. that one photograph in an antique shop that makes you think, inexplicably, that you somehow knew the person inside it.

★ tagged: i definitely can’t tag 21 people, but @pemberlaey, @marius-pont-de-bercy, @gyrele , @janeauste, @vitaandvirginia2018 , @francisaberanthy and whoever else would like to do this!

#personal matters #dash games #( ok now i gotta go to breakfast )

[soul-dwelling]

Did fire force have as many musical references as soul eater?

Off the top of my head, I don't think so.

Not very easy to top what Soul Eater had.

Granted, Pan in Fire Force shares a name with a Nepali folk song, and "Pan" refers to the instrument.

[grngm]

The Dawn of Night

Kathmandu musicians go back to their roots to explore sounds and songs deeply rooted in local culture.

The intimate brick-paved courtyard of Nepal Music Centre at Pinglasthan plays host to Night Band’s gig tonight. The gig is a fundraiser, named Sanai Garauna, in aid of Koseli School for slum and street children at Shantinagar, where Chandra Kala, the girl who played the demi-guardian of a blind man in Kathor, the band’s first music video, studies.

A crowd has gathered. 

Long-haired dudes, musicians, friends of musicians - around three hundred of them. Band member Jason Kunwar is a bit edgy tonight. He hurries through the questions I throw at him before finishing a couple of band shots and rushes to the auditorium for their first act of the night.

Inside, the air is nonchalant. The crowd surrounds the small raised platform on which the band is already seated, each holding the instrument they are about to play. Someone from the audience screams for Kushal, another band member. Some are waiting for the act to start while others are sending the occasional text message.

The structure of the music they play is reminiscent of the Canadian musical ensemble Broken Social Scene but only Nepali; guitar riffs are heightened by drums and djembe and Sumnima and other band member’s hum in place of vocals. When the actual vocals come, it’s muted. This adds to the melody along with the occasional flute solos to the otherwise instrumental tracks.

With each of their tracks, the applause increases. But the band is not making history tonight. Instead, the gig is a testimony to the slow and steady rise of the uniquely Nepali sound that is Night.

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If anyone had attended Night band’s gig years ago, they would’ve witnessed a completely different scene. With a different lineup, the band then adhered to the heavier side of music and played progressive metal. Night played a couple of gigs back in 2005 and the following years and was most notable as the remnants of the death metal band Maya.

Now, with a completely different lineup; with Sumnina Nepali on the vocals, Jiwan Lama on percussion and guitar, Kushal Karki on vocals and guitar, Jason Kunwar on flute, sarangi, guitar and vocals, Prem Gurung on the bass, Birat Basnyat on drums and percussions, and Niraj Shakya on keyboard and percussion, the band is different and their music even more so.

The transition to the sound that is Night now, a blend of ethnic and nearly extinct Nepali instruments backed by guitar and drums and poignant lyrics that the band calls ‘independent new-school folk’, was a direction that none of the members treaded consciously.

“It was not forced at all,” Jason explains. “I was doing an audit job back then and the sole purpose for that was to buy instruments. I travelled all over for the job. It was then that I got to hear folk music from different parts of Nepal.”

Jason shares one such experience with me of his travel to Eastern Nepal. He witnessed a ritual of the Meche community who were performing some sort of celebratory ritual. The beat of the chyabrung dhol and the tune of the song ‘mirrored the thought process’ of him at that particular moment. “Maybe I was leaning more towards folk music from those time but the transition came about naturally,” he adds. Jason is now pursuing his Masters in Ethnomusicology.

Now, the band comes together in a small practice room in Kamaladi 3-4 times every week. The room has a host of instruments lying around from singing bowls to dhime. This is the room where all the ideas come together. They improvise, ditch some ideas or add more to some. Everything is organic.

I ask Kushal if the band reflects the coming-of-age of the members.

“There is definitely a level of maturity in our music now, from the lyrics to the melodies. But more so than that, it’s the ensemble of all the people and everything they bring together in this practice room that defines the band and its music,” says Kushal. Niraj adds, “We just wanted to explore our choices. And it’s easier to reflect on our own roots.”

Now the band has been performing regularly at venues around town. And with Ani Ukali Sangai Orali, their first album ready for release, the band is coming together in the right direction.

Photo: ECS Media

Kathor, the band’s first music video was released a few months back. The song, adapted from a scene from the play Khariko Ghero, the Gurukul adaptation of The Caucasian Chalk Circle for which the band also composed the music, tells a story of ‘love that rises beyond situations and circumstances’ in Bibhusan Basnet’s own words. 

Former band member Bibhusan, who directed the video, tells how the video has turned out, with everyone’s input. Chandra Kala, the slum kid in the video was auditioned from a host of students from Koseli School. “She was a revelation,” says Bibhusan, “she would tell us incidents from her own life during the shoot and would give us suggestions, which I think has shaped the video in the way it is.”

Another song of the band that has been released is Basai Bagayo; a delicately layered song which starts with the sound of a row boat against the water. A host of instruments layer the track which eventually heightens to the lament of a family on exodus and ends with the sound of the row boat against the water. 

The song is a sincere tale of those displaced by the Koshi river floods that destroys the homes of thousands of people every year. Lines like ‘barud kini lyamna hajur’ (let us please buy explosives), apparently suggesting to blow up the dam that reserves the downward flow of water from Nepal causing the flood every monsoon and the use of the word barah, a Nepali expression for pity, makes this situational song all the more contextual and hence, Nepali.

This is Night. It’s the exploration of situations and themes that makes us Nepali. The problems and jubilance that shape us expressed musically through instruments that are available exclusively to us.

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“The strength of the band is their humility. They are restructuring the Nepali music scene and people are only eventually realizing it,” says musician Bartika Rai who has collaborated with the band on several occasions. “They are all full time musicians who are aware of the stigma attached with the music scene in Nepal but passion drives them. Night is one band that seems strong enough to accept originality in the most original sense. I think it is because of bands like Night and Diwas Gurung that it is acceptable for Nepali music to be cool,” says Bartika.

Pavit Maharjan from the prolific folk-ensemble Kutumba says, “Night is doing a commendable job. But I think they are limiting themselves to their own circle. I would suggest this bunch of talented musicians to leave behind the remnants of their underground days and make their music available to a wider range of listeners.”

The current core of Night Band and their music is the culmination of a series of changes and exploration. If anyone has attended their gigs or even heard their recordings, one will definitely have an inkling that the band has found their roots, in the deeply rooted culture of the country. What musical direction the band takes in the coming days will only be apparent in the future. But the band is open to changes. 

“It will be a bit irresponsible now to say that the core of our music will differ after, let’s say, three years,” says Jason, “but we are flexible because change is inevitable.” ■

An edited version of this article was first published in ECS Living. 

To learn more about the band and its music visit http://wearenight.com.

#music #profile #article

[johnandtracyslittleones]

World Tour: Couch Edition - Nepal

This week we:

1. Crafted Diwali lanterns

2. Devoured takeout from Himchuli, including delicious delicious momos

3. Made prayer flags to decorate our house (we were missing green because Kira used all the green paper to make fake money)

4. Learned about Buddhism and created mandala designs with Spielgaben

5. Cooked up some kaju katli (cashew and rosewater candy)

6. Celebrated Diwali by cleaning and tidying around the house, enjoying homemade sweets, lighting lanterns and playing games

7. Practiced outdoor meditation

8. Listened to Nepali Folk Songs, Nepali Lofi and Nepali Chill Hits playlists

9. Read about Diwali, lots about Everest, Nepali folk tales, Buddhism and mountains

10. Watched A Child’s Day in Nepal, How the Earth Was Made: Everest, Jeremy Jones Higher: The Himilayas