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RARE ASSAMESE SONGS ON THE NET Contributed by Anonymous on Friday, June 11 @ 12:01:02 MDT 2010
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 Songs, they say are food of love. For others, it is a panacea for all diseases, manna of heaven. But the cruel hands of Time and Oblivion devour the gemlike songs of yesteryears that causes acute pain for those who strive to restore those from the cave of oblivion.
Well, it is such an effort, a mission to bring back to your home a handful of Assamese songs that truly spread the fragrance of Assam of the early fifties and before. Some rare compositions, including the Assamese song recorded in the first gramophone record, are being revived from obscurity by an amateur music lover. Some rare gems are being released on the Internet that would help not only easy access to the addicts of immortal Assamese compositions, but also download the same round the clock paying nothing. This also means the selected songs will be preserved in the music archive of Internet Archive and will be available for all days to come, that too with the press of a button.
This has been possible through the venture of Sri Umananda Duwerah of Moranhat, Santipur (Assam, India), the Curator and Founder of Gramophone Record Museum, with the help of an upcoming singer Dipalima Dowarah Chaliha.
Umananda Dowerah, a 48-year-old cultural activist known for his rare collection of antique record players and records, who has a museum-*****-library of his own at his residence in Moranhat. An accomplished artist by profession, Dowerah has been collecting old records which have now crossed the thousand mark. He also has 14 gramophone record players of various shapes and types each in good condition. Amongst the 1,600 gramophone records he had collected, 400 of them were Assamese. His collection also included the original voices of Jyotiprasad Agarwalla, Bishnu Prasad Rabha and Phani Sarma, besides the original record of the first gramophone record of Assamese song (1924) and the famous Lakhinath Bezbarua's song ''O Mor Apoonar Desh'', the patriotic song which came close to becoming the anthem of Assam.
To popularize these evergreen old Assamese songs recorded in gramophone records (from 1924 onwards) and to materialize the mission of Umananda Dowerah, his nephew Dipalima Dowarah Chaliha helps by mastering most of these gems of bygone era of Assamese Music in their original tune. Both of them have been conducting workshops on these rare Assamese songs, in many places of Assam and have already compiled a book of these songs with notations as recorded in the original gramophone records.
Dipalima Dowarah Chaliha, is an approved artist of Assamese modern song in All India Radio. She was awarded the Best singer award of Xur Xandhan, a mega Assamese modern song competition, held in 2007. She was accredited as the best singer of Cotton College in the year 1998-99. Several songs are recorded in her voice in audio cassettes and CDs from her early age and her sweet and melodious voice has already captured the heart beat of many fans.
In the first phase of the mission to revive these songs for the new generation, a few songs have been rerecorded keeping the original tune and lyrics as on the gramophone records and Dipalima has lent her voice to all these songs.
To download these songs, simply search for "Evergreen Assamese Songs Recorded In Gramophone Records".
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Note from MK Admin: Those of who wishes to view and sample Mr. Dowarah's 400 assamese gramophone records collection, you can visit his museum at the following GPS location.
27° 11'03.04" N 94° 55'04.80" E
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