Inner Knowledge

Paban Das Baul | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 10, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Womad Select
• ASIN: B00000FC94
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #543,748 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Paramey Param: Bliss

2. Nodi Bhora: River Full of Waves

3. Premer Iskuley: School of Love

4. Gour Milena: Holy Marks

5. Dhire Dhire: Row Your Boat Steadily

6. Gharer Karigar: Your Architect Is Inside You

7. Sahajey Pagol: Easily Mad

8. Khejur Gachey Hari: Tie My Spirit to the Date Palm Tree

9. Mojar Karkhana: Strange Factory

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best Baul prodn on CD, April 23, 2001

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aporup (India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inner Knowledge (Audio CD)

Inner Knowledge is puer Baul music - full of stringed lutes, bels and tablas. It is set, as is evident in a small setting where Bauls usually play the best. There is none of the fusion with D&B that Real Sugar saw. Instead this is the purest stuff. Paban Das baul's voice is throaty and very soul. There are a couple of tracks by Subal das, another older singer, which is very harsh and needs some getting used to. But both are soulful as hell. Musicianship on the album is highly accomplished. Paban is great with the dubki (small tambourine). Buy this album. It may be the last remaining recordings of one o the best bauls of our times

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Roots of Trance, February 16, 2000

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Derrick Smith (Richmond, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inner Knowledge (Audio CD)

Indeed, this is Indian music - Bengali, to be precise. The fortunate inclusion of lyric summaries for all the tracks helps guide the listener through performances that would otherwise be repetitive, despite the muscular musicianship and full-throated singing. I recommend this to fans of Qawwali or of any other vocal/percussion "trance" genre.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good one !, June 10, 2001

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Jaydeep Ghosh (West Bloomfield, MI, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inner Knowledge (Audio CD)

For those who have liked Paban Das in 'Real Sugar' , they would like this too . This one is more traditional , as compared to the fusion flavored 'Real Sugar' . Among the other singers present are Subal Das and Nitya Gopal . The 'smell of the earth' is definitely there in some of the songs .

Waiting for some from Paban Das .