Bibi sanam janem, anaar-e-sisstanem
My love, you are like the sweet pomegranate of Sistan

Ba darwazae tajh Quran jayee sanam janem
Your being borders on the divine, my love

(repeat 1 & 2)

Kassi harfe dil-e maa ra nadaanist
What I feel for you, no one is privy to it

Bibi sanam janem, anaar-e-sisstanem
My love, you are like the sweet pomegranate of Sistan

Bahaaie mahafel-e maa ra nadaanist
No one can fathom the depths or value this love

Bibi sanam janem, anaar-e-sisstanem
My love, you are like the sweet pomegranate of Sistan

Ba joz tofaan kassi dar shahr-e-ghurbat
The wild storms crashing down on strange, distant cities

Bibi sanam janem, anaar-e-sisstanem
My love, you are like the sweet pomegranate of Sistan

Nishaan-e mahafel-e maa ra nadaanist
Only they know the true worth of our love

(repeat 1 & 2)

Na mekhawahm ke be taabat bebinom
Not ever would I want you to be sad

Bibi sanam janem, anaar-e-sisstanem
My love, you are like the sweet pomegranate of Sistan

Dilam khwahad ke shadaab att bebinam,

All I ever need is that you be happy and content

Bibi sanam janem, anaar-e-sisstanem
My love, you are like the sweet pomegranate of Sistan

Nadeedam man ba bedaari rukhat ra
Even if all the flowers in the world wilt and wither away

Bibi sanam janem, anaar-e-sisstanem
My love, you are like the sweet pomegranate of Sistan

Magar hamchu pari khwaabat bebinom
That love I have for you in my heart will not fade

(repeat 1 & 2)

Dil-e-naazok tar az andisha darum
What my heart feels is far mellower than my thoughts

Bibi sanam janem, anaar-e-sisstanem
My love, you are like the sweet pomegranate of Sistan

Hawaie mottadel chun re sha darum
There will never be a moment when I won’t yearn for you

Bibi sanam janem, anaar-e-sisstanem
My love, you are like the sweet pomegranate of Sistan

Hama gul hai-e aalaam barge-e-khoshkad
Bibi, believe me, your love is deeply rooted in my heart

Bibi sanam janem, anaar-e-sisstanem
My love, you are like the sweet pomegranate of Sistan

Tu dar baagh-e-kheialem reesha dary
Even if all the flowers in the world wither….

Bibi sanam janem, anaar-e-sisstanem
Ba darwazae tajh quran jayee sanam janem
My love, you are like the sweet pomegranate of Sistan
And your being borders on the divine…

I use to think to what makes them so special and different from all. According to some music critics, it was their style, they way they clad and they way they sung. It made every one and anyone feel like associating with them. They were near to bone and flesh of their times and times to come. Yep; our times.

Apart from all this, the message they gave us was of love and peace. This makes them achieve the distinction. At the moment, when I am trying to pay them the tribute, I am not able to find appropriate words.  This is the power of their voice and the impact the carry. Therefore, I would like to put it in the words of Derek Taylor who wrote in his book:

I have never seen anything like it. Nor heard any noise to approximate the ceaseless, frantic, hysterical scream which met the Beatles when they took the stage after what seemed a hundred years of earlier acts. All very good, all marking time, because no one had come for anything other than the Beatles…

Then the theatre went wild. First aid men and police – men in the stalls, women mainly in the balcony – taut and anxious, patrolled the aisles, one to every three rows.

Many girls fainted. Thirty were gently carried out, protesting in their hysteria, forlorn and wretched in an unrequited love for four lads who might have lived next door.

The stalls were like a nightmare March Fair. No one could remain seated. Clutching each other, hurling jelly babies at the stage, beating their brows, the youth of Britain’s second city surrendered themselves totally.”

And he is absolutely right. Lets take this song from them, ‘Don’t let me Down’. Well, I feel mesmerized. Look at the Lyrics:

Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.
Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.

Nobody ever loved me like she does,
Ooh she does, yeah she does.
And if somebody ever loved me like she does,
Ohh she does, yeah she does.

Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.
Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.

I’m in love for the first time.
Don’t you know it’s gonna last.
It’s a love that lasts forever,
It’s a love that has no past.

Don’t let me down, please, don’t let me down.
Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.

And from the first time that she really done me,
Ooh she done me, she done me good.
I guess nobody ever really done me,
Ooh she done me, she done me good.

Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.
Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.

I would say that, they were simply Splendid. Want to have a feel to what they were like. Here you go with their great work in following Video:

I came to know about Fusion Music during my medical school days and I really was impressed with the stuff. Latter, the Pakistani Mekal Hassan band captured my heart and I am one of its fans. At the moment, Shafqat Amanat, the able son of Pakistani Musical Maestro Ustad Amanat Ali Khan, is producing quality stuff. Recently, the teen sensation named Coke Studio, started as media campaign for Coke in Pakistan is quite popular. The other day I happened to listen to Tufail Ahmed Sanjrani (now popular as Saen Tufail) and Ali Zaffar performing for Coke Studio. I was impressed with the moving and mesmerizing impact of their trach though the music arrangement had the colors from Khuda Ka Liya Film’s track Allah Hu and the famous Sultan Bahu’s Sufi tune of Alif Allah.

This genre named Fusion that has taken birth out of mixing of two of more genres and in cases music traditions has proved very good and I think it will go on and it needs to go on for the music lovers like me.

Googoosh was born ‘Faegheh Atashin’ on 5 May 1950. She had a talent of singing and when her father came to know about her talent, he helped her to get to performing and she is considered one of the famous singers of the time. She also did act in movies but she is widely celebrated more a singer than an actress.

Iranian Islamic revolution brought an end to solo female singing in Iran and this resulted in a ban on her singing too. She did not sing till 2000 and latter in 2001 on the occasion of Norouz she performed in Dubai. Googoosh’s first album released after her return was Zartosht (Zoroaster); she has had four more record-breaking albums since then, including QQBangBang, Last News, Manifest, and Shabe Sepid with Mehrdad Asemani released in March of this year. I would like to share the following song from her recent singing. I think she has the same old charisma that she had before Iranian revolution of 1979.

Baavari piya ki – (6-times)
(Deewani Piya ki)
Kaase kahe jaake peer jiyaaki
(Apnay man ki pera (takleef) akhir kisay bataye)
Baavari piyaa ki – (2-times)
(Deewani Piya ki)
Piyu rang man ki chunar rangaai – (2-times)
(Apna mehboob ka rang sa man ki chunri rangwa le)
Piyu piyu rath ke piyu mein samaai
(Apnay mehboob ko yaad kar kar ka mehboob ma sama gaye)

Ban gayi chhaayaa – (2-times)
(Reh gai wo bus ik parchai)
Chhal baliyaa ki
(Us jado karnay walay ki)
Baavari piyaa ki – (4-times)
(Deewani Piya ki)

Itha utha dekhe panth nihaare – (2-times)
(Yahan wahan doodhte rahe, Rastay takte jaye)
Har din palchhin naam pukaare
(Har din har pal naam pukaray)
Sud nahin bisare – (3-times)
(Us ka khayal ka bhoolta he nahin)
Man basiyaa ki
(Jo man ma basa ha)
Baavari piyaa ki – (4-times)
(Deewani Piya ki)
Kaase kahe jake peer jiyaaki
(Apnay man ki pera (takleef) akhir kisay bataye)
Baavari piyaa ki – (6-times)
(Deewani Piya ki)

Download this song here

Oscar Peterson, the great Jazz pianist died at the age of 82 in his home in Toronto of Kidney failure. “He was a national treasure” said Canada’s Governor General, Michaelle Jean. He was famous for his fast-playing virtuoso style. He has the honor of being one of Jazz’s most recorded musicians.

The British saxophonist Sir John Dankworth, who also worked with Peterson, said: “Oscar was a wonderful example of jazz at its best. He was a wonderful player, prodigious technique, fantastic ideas and a very humble man.” Oscar started his career very early; he released his first single at the age of 19 and performed with greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Nat “King” Cole.

External Links

Oscar Paterson’s website

Oscar Paterson on Wikipedia

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Awww found the link; you can download the song ‘Banwari Piya ki’!