Raga Thumri Khammaj | Album: Lifestory Of A Legend, Bhimsen Joshi | Music Today

Late Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi was an Indian vocalist from Karnataka in the Hindustani classical tradition. He is known for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music.
Khamaj is a specific raga within the Khamaj thaat. This raga has been explored more in the lighter forms of Hindustani Classical Music such as Thumri. Thumri is a common genre of semi-classical Indian music. The term 'thumri' is derived from the Hindi verb thumakna which means “to walk with dancing steps so as to make the ankle-bells tinkle.” The form is, thus, connected with dance, dramatic gestures, mild eroticism, evocative love poetry and folk songs of Uttar Pradesh, though there are regional variations.
Bhimsen Joshi was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1998, the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. Subsequently, he received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, in 2009. He made a career in Hindustani classical music, devotional music, patriotic music and playback singing. Bhimsen Joshi was known for his powerful voice, amazing breath control, fine musical sensibility and unwavering grasp of the fundamentals. He died in 2011, aged 88, in Pune, Maharashtra. Joshi first performed live in 1941 at the age 19. His debut album, containing a few devotional songs in Marathi and Hindi, was released in 1942.
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Farhan Amin is absolutely right. Panditji is not just Human but Human with super excellence!

[@yamunasharma3523]

🙏🙏🙏 Pranaam Master fragrance of our great culture ❤️❤️ touching inner core of destiny" pt Bheem Sen G, Pride of India

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[@MoslemMahalatcse]

very sweet awesome raag....... dil garden garden ho gaya...

[@Gunahegde]

If anyone has the recording of Khamaj (and also Puriya Kalyan in the same session) which was broadcast by AIR during 1991 Radio Sangeet Sammelan, request them to share the same. I have really bad quality recording but it must be the best Khamaj by Pt. Bhimsen Joshi

[@manikdhore6821]

Very Pleasing and Delightful

[@DC-zi6se]

He emulates Faiyaz Khan's Agra Gharana style. Nice performance.

[@FarhanAmin1994]

While Panditji has sung this piece as a Khamaj thumri on occasion, the version here is actually closer to Mishra Mand. It seems Panditji intended it to be so, given the relative _alpatva_ of the komal nishad for the most part. The rendition shows him in peak form and likely draws on his Lucknow stay during which he absorbed thumri influences.

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Please give the lyrics

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