Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 4: A music album titled ‘TISHNAGI’, containing audio tracks of eight Punjabi Gazals written by Surinder Singh Seerat, a well known Gazal lyricist of J&K State, was released here today.
The Music release function was organized by Punjabi Lekhak Sabha Jammu at J&K Academy of Art, Culture & Languages. Surjeet Judge, Shiromani Punjabi poet presided over the function while Dr Lalit Magotra was the chief guest on this occasion.
The Compact Disc of these tracks has been produced by Surinder Seerat. The music for these Gazals has been composed and directed by Sham Sajan, a prominent singer and music director of J&K State. The Gazals have been sung by Gursharan Kaur, Sargam Pant and Sham Sajan himself.
Welcoming the guests, Devinder Singh Vishavnagrik said that Mr Seerat has done a commendable job to promote the musical Gazal culture in Punjabi language.
In his address Surinder Seerat gave a brief introduction of the process of developments in bringing out this album. He said that it was the impact of Sham Sajan’s voice that compelled him to record his gazals in his voice. He said that inspite of his stay in California, he preferred to get the album recorded in Jammu only.
Sham Sajan disclosed on this occasion that only the Indian local musical instruments like flute, sitar, sarangi, rabab, harmonium and tabla etc were used during the recording of these tracks based on Indian Classical Ragas like Rag Keerwani, Rag Bhairavi, Tilak Kamod, Darbari Kanara, Chorakseed etc and no synth music was made use of.
Dr Manjot highlighted the achievements and contribution of Mr Seerat in the field of Punjabi Gazal. Major Bhupinder Singh Daler, a Punjabi writer, Dr Lalit Magotra, Dr Arvinder Amn, Additional Secretary, JKAACL also expressed their views.
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