Qadri Jugni | Qawali | Ranjhan Ali group | Rangley Punjabis | Live

Album 8 Track 75

Qadri Jugni #Punjab #RangleyPunjabi

Punjab has a rich tradition of singing Qawwalis, we discovered Ranjhan Ali and his team of qawwals in a small village called Verka outside Amritsar.

He sings compositions by Baba Fareed, Bulleh Shah, Ameer Khusrau and keeps the tradition alive.

Ranjhan sings in Dargahs and outside Gurudwaras and trains his band of young wards.

This production is a part of Discovering the Peninsula - Punjab presented as "Nokia Music Theatre" series broadcasted on MTV as a three episode serial created by The Peninsula Studios.

Our partners the Universal Music Group are taking the music to audiences around the world.

The band "Rangley Punjabis of The Peninsula Studios" is hugely popular.

The starting point of this program was a workshop on the music and poetry of Punjab, led by the eminent theatre personality M.K.Raina. This led us to 438 musicians in smaller towns and districts in March 2014. 2600 minutes of music was evaluated and we traveled through Punjab to meet some 50 wonderful musicians of which 21 feature in this album.

Our artists come from Naushera, Verka, Badal and Patiala. We curated the music they wished to present and mentored and recorded them @ The Peninsula Studios.

We present some of the best music from Majha, Doaba and Malwa in Punjab.

This music is a result of team work led by Avinash Chordia our Head of Studios, Neel Adhikari and Miti Adhikari who are outstanding musicians who worked with and mentored 21 musicians over six months and curated, recorded and produced the content on 25th June 2014.

Deepak Samson did the sound recording. Narinder Tawakley led the talent search with Anant Raina. Shankar was the studio technician. Pramit Kasliwal, Rupika Gupta and Himanshu Singh provided logistic support to the project.

These tracks were embellished, arranged mixed and mastered by Miti and Neel Adhikari for a music album with 10 tracks for Nokia Music Theatre , Discovery of the Peninsula, Punjab and published in the fall of 2014 by the Universal Music Group.

The AV team has brought the album to life through this music video. Salman Usmani created and directed these audio visual renditions as music videos as Director and Director of Photography with Kajri Akhtar on 2nd camera and Azra Sadr as camera assistant, Adil Khan handled post production as Director PP and Jai Dhankar is the editor. The final edits and colors were delivered by Dhritiman.

The result is world class recording of ten great songs along with music videos from Punjab, produced by a cast over a 100 people. The authenticity, the musical quality and the international appeal of the music was publicly acknowledged by Max Hole, The Chairman of Universal Music who saw them perform during his visit to India.

Due to this effort these musicians get an opportunity to get known to to newer audiences and find patrons for their talent, this improves their livelihood and they step into a wider world of music lovers.

The entire production was executed at The Peninsula Studios designed by the world renowned architect Ratan Batliboi who is a Director on our Board

This presentation is curated and produced by, Subroto Chattopadhyay, Sita Raina and the team at The Peninsula Studios - Avinash Chordia, Narinder Tawakley, Neel Adhikari, Miti Adhikari and Ananya Rane. It is our tribute to the great poets, saints, music and artists of Punjab and share it, with music lovers around the world.

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