Recordings of live ghazal gatherings, unedited. You hear the request called from the floor, the pause, and the couplet repeated for the person who asked. The room here is a mehfil and the form is the ghazal: qawwali at concert length runs at the same hour on Sukh Indie and Sufi, and the qawwali written for the screen is Sukh Urdu's.
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Sukh Ghazals
Ghazal, slow and unhurried, for the end of the evening.
Urdu and HindiGhazal in Urdu, Punjabi and PersianHarmonium and sarangiLive gathering recordingsSemi-classical thumri and dadraLate-night acoustic vocal
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Sukh Ghazals
Ghazal, slow and unhurried, for the end of the evening.
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About this station
A ghazal asks for time, so this station gives it. Sukh Ghazals runs long: full length renditions, the couplet repeated because somebody in the room asked for it, harmonium and sarangi close to the microphone, tabla kept soft. This is a station built on one form rather than one language, so the ghazal in Punjabi and Persian sits here beside the Urdu repertoire, while Urdu across everything else, playback, pop and the spoken word, is Sukh Urdu's day. The gatherings this station carries are ghazal mehfils and nothing else: qawwali at concert length belongs to Sukh Indie and Sufi, and the qawwali written for the screen belongs to Sukh Urdu. The schedule opens at midday and the last slot runs deep into the next morning. There is no breakfast show here, and that is the point.
Through the day
All times Australian Eastern.
MatlaThe opening couplet of the day. The station wakes at midday with a single ghazal played whole.
The CoupletOne sher explored across several renditions, with notes on the poetic form.
Thumri and DadraThe lighter semi-classical forms that sit either side of the ghazal tradition.
ShaamThe accompanists' hour. The evening follows the instruments rather than the voice: sarangi answering a line, harmonium holding underneath it, tabla kept soft, and the players named.
BaithakRecordings of live ghazal gatherings with the applause left in, and the request culture of the room.
Raat GayeDeep night ghazal without interruption, and it keeps running through the morning. Nobody speaks over it again until midday.
Programmes
One verse, several interpretations, played back to back so the differences in phrasing and pause become obvious even to a first-time listener.
An hour given to the musicians behind the singer. Sarangi, harmonium and tabla in ghazal settings chosen so a first-time listener can hear what each instrument is doing to a couplet, with the accompanists named in the announcement rather than left out of it.