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D'Bhuyaa Saaj : Live in India

D' Bhuyaa Saaj

Photograph by Sukanya Ghosh. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

CD cover of "Remembered Rhythms D'Bhuyaa Saaj: live in India!"

Photograph by Sukanya Ghosh. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Rakesh Yankaran singing with Rishi Ragbir on Dholak. D'Bhuyaa Saaj.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Chutney Dance - Priya Kelly and D'Bhuyaa Saaj.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Lilly Ramcharan singing "1845..."

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Molly Ramcharan of D'Bhuyaa Saaj.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Rakesh Yankaran - D'Raja of Chutney Soca.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

D'Bhuyaa Saaj is a group of chutney musicians from Trinidad. Chutney and chutney soca is the music of the East Indian community of this area. It is a popular Indian-Caribbean music widely performed in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora overseas. Chutney musicians draw upon ideas from Indian folk traditions, devotional songs and Indian film music, as well as from calypso, soca and rap. It is said to have had its origin in the matikor ceremony, where women sang "hot and spicy" songs. Bhuyaa Saaj means to sit on the ground and entertain. Chutney song texts deal with a wide range of themes and have English as well as Bhojpuri words. This album consists of live recordings of the Remembered Rhythms tour of seven Indian cities in February 2005, a festival celebrating the music of India in a diasporic context. D'Bhuyaa Saaj and the music they perform represent the Indian diaspora in the Caribbean.

Track Listing

101	Ganga Jamuna Godavari (An invocation to the sacred rivers of India and gods and goddesses)	Rakesh Yankaran	02:36
102	Dholak Baje (The dholak drum plays)	Rakesh Yankaran	04:24
103	Ratiya Poosoor (Whispering in the night)	Rasika Dindial	03:37
104	Baiganwale (The Eggplant man)	Molly Ramcharan	03:38
105	Mousie (Auntie)	Rakesh Yankaran	05:02
106	Topiwale	Lilly Ramcharan	04:19
107	Lazy Man	Rasika Dindial	06:06
108	The New Dawn (1845)	Lilly Ramcharan	05:24
109	Savari Surat (The dark visaged one has stolen my heart)	Rakesh Yankaran	05:10
110	Lover Boy	Molly Ramcharan	03:15

Release Info

Folkways Suggests

Calypso Awakening from the Emory Cook Collection

Various Artists
Le Jazz Primitif from Trinidad

Rupert Clemendore and John Buddy Williams
Calypso Exposed

Various Artists
Calypso

Lord Invader
Cook's Tour of Stereo

Various Artists