Paban_Das_Baul
Paban Das Baul
Indian musical artist
Paban Das Baul (born 1961) is a noted Baul singer and musician from India, who also plays a dubki, a small tambourine and sometimes an ektara as an accompaniment. He is known for pioneering traditional Baul music on the international music scene and for establishing a genre of folk-fusion music.[3]
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Birth name | Paban Das |
Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Mohammedpur, Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India[1] |
Genres | Baul music, folk-fusion |
Occupation(s) | Singer, composer |
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Years active | 1970s–present |
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Born in Mohammedpur, a small village in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal, where his early musical influences were his father, and wandering baul singers.
In 1988, Das Baul started collaborating with Sam Mills, a London-born guitarist who had performed with experimental, avant garde group 23 Skidoo between 1979 and 1982. Their collaboration resulted in the acclaimed album Real Sugar (1997), a Peter Gabriel's Real World Records release,[4] it marked one of the first fusions of Bengali music and Western pop music.[5] The album features psychedelic elements to it and has been compared to the work of artists such as George Harrison, Ananda Shankar and The Bombay Royale.[6] He has also collaborated with the London-based State of Bengal and Susheela Raman. In 2005, the Baul tradition was included in the list of "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO.[7]
He also performed at the Jaipur Literature Festival[8] and the "Nine Lives" Concert, 2009 in London, of William Dalrymple.[9]
He met Mimlu as a concert audience in 1982 in Paris, they later married and lived in Paris for many years. He has taught himself to read, not just Bengali, but Hindi, English and French.
- Solo albums
- Inner Knowledge (1997)
- Music of the Honey Gatherers (2010)
- Collaboration albums
- Real Sugar (1997, with Sam Mills)
- Le Chant Des Bauls - Manuche O Rautan (2002, with various artists)
- Tana Tani (2004, with State of Bengal)
- Nagmoti (1983) (as performer at song "Doriyay Ailo Tufan")
- Shukno Lanka (2010) (as performer at song "Sundori Komola")
- Hunger & Love: Tobu O Bhalobasha (2017) (as composer)
- Sen, Mimlu (2009). Baulsphere. Random House. ISBN 978-81-8400-055-9.
- Sen, Mimlu (2010). The Honey Gatherers: Travels with The Bauls: The Wandering Minstrels of Rural India. Random House. ISBN 978-1-84604-189-1.
- "Rendezvous With Paban Das Baul". Daily Star. Vol. 4, no. 28. Bangladesh. January 7, 2005.
- "Paban Das Baul & Sam Mills". Real World Music, US. Archived from the original on 2001-03-05. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
- Broughton, Simon; Ellingham, Mark; Trillo, Richard (2000). World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific (Volume 2 of World Music). Rough Guides. p. 111. ISBN 1-85828-636-0.
- Wiser, Danny (2022). "INDIA/UK: Real Sugar - Paban Das Baul & Sam Mills". 200worldalbums.com. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity". UNESCO. September 25, 2005.
- "Spiritual journey: William Dalrymple makes a comeback to travel writing with his new book". The Telegraph. Calcutta. November 1, 2009. Archived from the original on September 17, 2012.
- Paban Das Baul at AllMusic
- Paban Das Baul discography at Discogs
- Paban Das Baul at IMDb
- Paban Das Baul at last.fm
- Paban Das Baul on Facebook
- Media from Commons
- Quotations from Wikiquote
- Data from Wikidata