| Description | Kali Dasgupta performs Indian folk songs from North and East Bengal and explains the stories recounted in the songs. This recording was probably made on a tape that had been used before. Some tracks from this previous recording survive here at the beginning and end of the tape.
Track 1: piano music 0.17 mins
Track 2: silence 3.26 mins
Track 3: piano music 0.11 mins
Track 4: silence 1.14 mins
Track 5: test tone 0.05 mins
Track 6: recording setup, Charles Parker introduces Punjabi anti-war song 0.12 mins
Track 7: Kali Dasgupta tunes his instrument, introduces the Punjabi anti-war song and explains the meaning of the lyrics in which a woman compares her love with a burning oven and laments the absence of her solider husband 0.46 mins
Track 8: Kali Dasgupta performs Punjabi anti-war song 1.07 mins
Track 9: recording setup 0.27 mins
Track 10: Kali Dasgupta introduces a song which is a political satire using the Bengali folk form. The song is known as 'Mountbatten' and was composed in 1947 when Mountbatten was viceroy of India 1.57 mins
Tracks 11-13: Kali Dasgupta performs the 'Mountbatten' song
Track 14: Charles Parker introduces a trade union song, written in Hindi by a worker, which Kali Dasgupta then talks about and explains the meaning of the lyrics which mention the red flag 0.55 mins
Track 15: Kali Dasgupta performs the trade union song 1.14 mins
Track 16: recording shutdown 0.10 mins
Track 17: silence 1.14 mins
Track 18: recording of song 'If not for you' 0.41 mins
Track 19: silence 0.29 mins
Track 20: recording of song 'If not for you' 4.33 mins
Track 21: recording of song 'If not for you' 4.07 mins
Track 22: silence 10.13 mins
Total: 48.29 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0875880 |