When you purchase Babu Kishan Music,
you are supporting the Ektara Foundation
All Proceeds of Babu Kishan Music go to our Foundation
Ektara Foundation
Preservation of the Vaishnava Baul of Birbhum W Bengal
Books, Songs, Preservation, Babu Kishan preserved his lineage back in the 1970 and it was complete in the 2000, we now need help releasing it. Baul has already been preserved, however there is much work to do.
Indian Culture.
Documentaries
Books
you are supporting the Ektara Foundation
All Proceeds of Babu Kishan Music go to our Foundation
Ektara Foundation
Preservation of the Vaishnava Baul of Birbhum W Bengal
Books, Songs, Preservation, Babu Kishan preserved his lineage back in the 1970 and it was complete in the 2000, we now need help releasing it. Baul has already been preserved, however there is much work to do.
Indian Culture.
Documentaries
Books
Why donate?
To the "Ektara Foundation"
First Let's
Discover
Vaishnava Baul is an oral Sanskrit tradition, the stories are recorded in the songs. The whole Bhagavad Gita is one song. Baul starts with Radha and Krishna 5000 years ago. Babu is the eldest son of Purna Das Baul and the late Manju Dasi. He was raised by Sri Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Brajabala Dasi in Siri Birbhum until age 8, then moved to Calcutta and spent 12 years at the Ramakrishna Mission.
Manju Dasi his mother is the first Women Baul to travel the world starting back in the 1960's until the mid 2000's she traveled every corner of the globe and performed on every stage, her story is truly what legends are made of. Manju was an extremely talented Folk musician, an HMV/EMI and Polydor artist.
Manju was the first Female Baul (Baulini) and perhaps the only to date to be a"A class female Baul singer in India" she was the first Baul to introduce Harmonium to Baul, before her the Bauls did not use the harmonium. Manju was the first Baul to introduce official Lalon Fakir songs to Radio, TV, recordings and film.
Brajabala Dasi and Radharani Dasi were 'Baul Women Guru's' who taught all the women. The people who are fundraising to preserve Baul do not mention and deleted their names , this is Cultural Appropriation, they are talking like they are the ones who discovered Baul and saying they are from a Baul lineage, making up stories and cheating people in the name of Baul. The Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum are the roots of Baul, they are a spiritual tradition but at the same time they are Folk history of Bengal.
Without mentioning the names of this family there is no Baul there is no other lineage (period). Why because they are history and the only lineage, the rest is just made up stories, trying to take the stories of this tradition, their stories, their songs deleting the names and making up your own. This is Cultural Appropriation.
Today it has become fashionable to say that you are preserving the Bauls? The Bauls are already preserved Babu Kishan and his family and their ancestors have preserved their tradition for thousands of years. The songs are already recorded. Everything is stored away safely from all that is going on today. Perhaps they knew this day would come and if they did not protect what belongs to them it would be taken. To the New Baul singers, how can you preserve what does not belong to you. How can you preserve Folk Music when you have no roots in it or education from inside the tradition or other wise.
Now let's WORK
Preserve
Folk Music of India and Bengal must be preserved by someone who understands Folk Music and Baul a person who is a EXPERT in this area, who understand, who is a poet and has composed and composed Bengali Folk Music and Folk Music of India.
Krishnendu Das Baul aka Babu Kishan is an expert in the Folk Music of Bengal and India. He was a Music consultant during the 1980's for CBS India and Manager A&R, he was specifically hired to categorize all of India's Folk and Classical Music because he is an expert Master of Indian Music. Babu Kishan is a Master of Indian Folk and Indian Classical as a Music Composer and Master of Indian Music he has personally produced Indian Music since the 1970's. He has produced 50 albums and 150 Indian Musical Scores.
Babu Kishan has traveled throughout India hundreds of times with Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and his family singing Baul Mystic Music and playing on all the largest stages in India and around the world.
The Vaishnava Bauls are known as the wandering rural Bengali street singers. Babu Kishan and his pioneering family brought Baul out of the villages of Bengal to India and the world. Babu Kishan was born in Suri Bengal a village, into an ancient Lineage of Folk and Mystical Music. He was awarded the Youngest Music Composer of Bengal during the 1970's.
Babu Kishan is a multi instrumentalist playing 15 instruments.
He has been recording and preserving the folk music of India for 40 years. Born on the soil and soul of Bengal into a ancient Vaishnava Baul family, with a Masters degree from Calcutta University in Folk Music.
Babu Kishan has recorded, produced, promoted
through India's top Music Labels the biggest Folk Musicians of India including,
Dr. Bhupen Hazarika
Purna Das Baul
Manju Das
Gostho Gopal
Aarti Mukerjee
Sapna Awasthi
SapnaChakroborty
Amar Pal
Allan Fakir
Abida Parveen
Sharada Sinha
Anuradha Paudwal
Hemlata
Mahendra Kapoor
Phalguni Pahak
Daiyanti Bai
Mshola
Gopa Bose
and many more.
BabuKishan is the only one of the very few living authentic oral Sanskrit authorities alive today regarding the Bauls from inside the tradition who is also, a Scholar . He is a pioneer in preserving Baul and no Baul would have songs to sing if he and his family had not recorded all back in the 1950, onward. Today fake Bauls are singing their songs recorded in the 1960's and as if they are the writer of the song. Not only that there are some who are putting other poets names on songs that were recorded by this family long ago.
Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das is starting to speak now because he is seeing a prolific amount of mis-information on Baul by the many scholars, PhDs, new Bauls singers and writers who are lacking information in what the authentic Baul lineage is really about, they are making it us as they go, copy and paste over and over. Each day he see's another story or more speculation on who the Bauls are, it is has become the biggest joke to those that know this family and friend and well wisher of this Baul Lineage. You must know there is no other lineage of Baul.
IT'S UP TO US
Change
True knowledge and wisdom from the real Folklore, the real authentic Folk traditions comes from understanding the music and languages of the land.
It has to start from the people who have lived the traditions, outsiders can not understand because they do not have an understanding of the deep culture of the land. They do not understand how the people of the land think, it is easy today to take pictures and copy and paste all sorts. We live in a world of internet Guru's who have not lived the tradition.
We must bring out the real and give the real a voice. Support our Folk Traditions at the ground level.
There are other Folk traditions without a voice.
We must support this silent voice.
The true authentic hidden away in the cracks that have the true stories and these stories are not being preserved or told, today anybody can say anything.
There are too many using the stories of this lineage taking the names off and making up new stories in the name of preserving Baul?
It is too easy for others to lay claim to what can Never be owned and say well you did not copy right your songs? It is too easy to make excuses as to why you do not know where the songs have come from and who wrote the songs. The ones who have held, and preserved their folk traditions now to only see them watered down and reduced.
Cultural Appropriation is a real issue and needs to be acknowledged.
The stories of the soul and soil of the land need to be respected.
SUPPORT/DONATE
This is Babu Kishan's Work in this lifetime, to him WORK is Worship and he has been dedicated all his life to preserving Baul and Folk Music !
This is a lineage and the lineage of Baul who brought Baul to the world.
Babu Kishan is the pioneer.
To help with the authentic preservation of this ONE and ONLY 'Lineage of Vaishnava Baul'.
The roots of Baul from Birbhum Bengal India.
The preservation and history of Indian Folk Music by someone who is actually qualified to preserve Indian Music.
To the "Ektara Foundation"
First Let's
Discover
Vaishnava Baul is an oral Sanskrit tradition, the stories are recorded in the songs. The whole Bhagavad Gita is one song. Baul starts with Radha and Krishna 5000 years ago. Babu is the eldest son of Purna Das Baul and the late Manju Dasi. He was raised by Sri Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Brajabala Dasi in Siri Birbhum until age 8, then moved to Calcutta and spent 12 years at the Ramakrishna Mission.
Manju Dasi his mother is the first Women Baul to travel the world starting back in the 1960's until the mid 2000's she traveled every corner of the globe and performed on every stage, her story is truly what legends are made of. Manju was an extremely talented Folk musician, an HMV/EMI and Polydor artist.
Manju was the first Female Baul (Baulini) and perhaps the only to date to be a"A class female Baul singer in India" she was the first Baul to introduce Harmonium to Baul, before her the Bauls did not use the harmonium. Manju was the first Baul to introduce official Lalon Fakir songs to Radio, TV, recordings and film.
Brajabala Dasi and Radharani Dasi were 'Baul Women Guru's' who taught all the women. The people who are fundraising to preserve Baul do not mention and deleted their names , this is Cultural Appropriation, they are talking like they are the ones who discovered Baul and saying they are from a Baul lineage, making up stories and cheating people in the name of Baul. The Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum are the roots of Baul, they are a spiritual tradition but at the same time they are Folk history of Bengal.
Without mentioning the names of this family there is no Baul there is no other lineage (period). Why because they are history and the only lineage, the rest is just made up stories, trying to take the stories of this tradition, their stories, their songs deleting the names and making up your own. This is Cultural Appropriation.
Today it has become fashionable to say that you are preserving the Bauls? The Bauls are already preserved Babu Kishan and his family and their ancestors have preserved their tradition for thousands of years. The songs are already recorded. Everything is stored away safely from all that is going on today. Perhaps they knew this day would come and if they did not protect what belongs to them it would be taken. To the New Baul singers, how can you preserve what does not belong to you. How can you preserve Folk Music when you have no roots in it or education from inside the tradition or other wise.
Now let's WORK
Preserve
Folk Music of India and Bengal must be preserved by someone who understands Folk Music and Baul a person who is a EXPERT in this area, who understand, who is a poet and has composed and composed Bengali Folk Music and Folk Music of India.
Krishnendu Das Baul aka Babu Kishan is an expert in the Folk Music of Bengal and India. He was a Music consultant during the 1980's for CBS India and Manager A&R, he was specifically hired to categorize all of India's Folk and Classical Music because he is an expert Master of Indian Music. Babu Kishan is a Master of Indian Folk and Indian Classical as a Music Composer and Master of Indian Music he has personally produced Indian Music since the 1970's. He has produced 50 albums and 150 Indian Musical Scores.
Babu Kishan has traveled throughout India hundreds of times with Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and his family singing Baul Mystic Music and playing on all the largest stages in India and around the world.
The Vaishnava Bauls are known as the wandering rural Bengali street singers. Babu Kishan and his pioneering family brought Baul out of the villages of Bengal to India and the world. Babu Kishan was born in Suri Bengal a village, into an ancient Lineage of Folk and Mystical Music. He was awarded the Youngest Music Composer of Bengal during the 1970's.
Babu Kishan is a multi instrumentalist playing 15 instruments.
He has been recording and preserving the folk music of India for 40 years. Born on the soil and soul of Bengal into a ancient Vaishnava Baul family, with a Masters degree from Calcutta University in Folk Music.
Babu Kishan has recorded, produced, promoted
through India's top Music Labels the biggest Folk Musicians of India including,
Dr. Bhupen Hazarika
Purna Das Baul
Manju Das
Gostho Gopal
Aarti Mukerjee
Sapna Awasthi
SapnaChakroborty
Amar Pal
Allan Fakir
Abida Parveen
Sharada Sinha
Anuradha Paudwal
Hemlata
Mahendra Kapoor
Phalguni Pahak
Daiyanti Bai
Mshola
Gopa Bose
and many more.
BabuKishan is the only one of the very few living authentic oral Sanskrit authorities alive today regarding the Bauls from inside the tradition who is also, a Scholar . He is a pioneer in preserving Baul and no Baul would have songs to sing if he and his family had not recorded all back in the 1950, onward. Today fake Bauls are singing their songs recorded in the 1960's and as if they are the writer of the song. Not only that there are some who are putting other poets names on songs that were recorded by this family long ago.
Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das is starting to speak now because he is seeing a prolific amount of mis-information on Baul by the many scholars, PhDs, new Bauls singers and writers who are lacking information in what the authentic Baul lineage is really about, they are making it us as they go, copy and paste over and over. Each day he see's another story or more speculation on who the Bauls are, it is has become the biggest joke to those that know this family and friend and well wisher of this Baul Lineage. You must know there is no other lineage of Baul.
IT'S UP TO US
Change
True knowledge and wisdom from the real Folklore, the real authentic Folk traditions comes from understanding the music and languages of the land.
It has to start from the people who have lived the traditions, outsiders can not understand because they do not have an understanding of the deep culture of the land. They do not understand how the people of the land think, it is easy today to take pictures and copy and paste all sorts. We live in a world of internet Guru's who have not lived the tradition.
We must bring out the real and give the real a voice. Support our Folk Traditions at the ground level.
There are other Folk traditions without a voice.
We must support this silent voice.
The true authentic hidden away in the cracks that have the true stories and these stories are not being preserved or told, today anybody can say anything.
There are too many using the stories of this lineage taking the names off and making up new stories in the name of preserving Baul?
It is too easy for others to lay claim to what can Never be owned and say well you did not copy right your songs? It is too easy to make excuses as to why you do not know where the songs have come from and who wrote the songs. The ones who have held, and preserved their folk traditions now to only see them watered down and reduced.
Cultural Appropriation is a real issue and needs to be acknowledged.
The stories of the soul and soil of the land need to be respected.
SUPPORT/DONATE
This is Babu Kishan's Work in this lifetime, to him WORK is Worship and he has been dedicated all his life to preserving Baul and Folk Music !
This is a lineage and the lineage of Baul who brought Baul to the world.
Babu Kishan is the pioneer.
To help with the authentic preservation of this ONE and ONLY 'Lineage of Vaishnava Baul'.
The roots of Baul from Birbhum Bengal India.
The preservation and history of Indian Folk Music by someone who is actually qualified to preserve Indian Music.
Babu Kishan was named Krishnendu Das Baul by his beloved grandfather,Baul Saint Sri Nabani Das Baul and his grandmother Brijobola Dasi
Ektara Foundation is a Non Profit Foundation
Preserving Indian Music, Folk, Classical, Baul and Indian Cinema, helping young people learn Indian Music from all over India, Mastering Indian Music and creating New World Music and Fusion.
The Ektara Foundation was created and registered in Mumbai, India in 2008 it has been inactive as life has taken Babu Kishan to Canada and now back to India. Time is precious and it is of the upmost important to preserve and pass on the legendary stories and techniques of Indian Music.
Indian Music in its pristine form is disappearing, Folk, Classical, Baul, the Spiritual Music of India. A major focus is on preserving the Yogic Baul Minstrel Musical Tradition and Baul sadhana clearing up the misconceptions about what Baul is? It is important to preserve Baul and Baul song and dance accurately because it has been hijacked by Cultural Appropriation and Academics have changing the narrative.
Educating and keeping Traditional India Music alive in this world.
Babu Kishan has spent a lifetime fundraising for others, he has fundraised for many temples, societies, schools, disasters. He has fundraised for his own lineage and for his father with no benefit to himself and gave all credit to his father.
Babu Kishan has supported and encouraged Bauls in Birbhum for decades. Babu is a pioneer on bringing his one and only Lineage to the World.
No one in this world would know about Baul,
without all the leg work Babu has done.
No one in this world would have copied him in his path trying to be him, running around to Universities and trying to get in touch with his friends and musician colleages, the place he traveled, everybody follows Babu wanting into Bollywood ect..
The patchwork Guduri he designed for his father is worn today by many Bauls.
The Baul women's dress he designed for the Film Tagore about his aunt Radharani Dasi is worn today by a new Baul singer.
There are no Bangladeshi Bauls that is just a fabrication to fundraise.
Baul is extinct all we can do is preserve and all is with Babu not with these new made up lineage.
Without all the work he has done in the 1970's 1980's, 1990's and onward,
no one in this world would know what or who Baul is. If not for Babu Kishan's effort and hard work keeping the flame of Baul alive, the flame that his ancestors going back thousands of years to the modern day and the flame of his Grandfather and Father have kept alive.
Babu has organized, managed and created a framework for all to follow in. He has observed that most have taken and made up stories and lineages but have never given credit or mentioned his name? Now it is time for Babu Kishan to preserve and tell his story full and final.
Please help support an authentic 'Baul Guru' from an authentic lineage.
The Ektara Foundation
registered 2007 in Mumbai India
Please be careful who you donate too, not all are legitimate Bauls or honest.
Please contact Babu Kishan and have a conversation in how you can help.
He has been a cultural representative India and Indian Music around the World for 40 years
[email protected]
Ektara is also known as:
Gopi Yantra aka Gopi Chand
Gopi Yantra
A Baul Yantra it is called the Gopi Yantra or Gopi Chand more commonly known as an Ektara the one stringed instrument that symbolised peace and unity to the Baul.
The Gopi Yantra is the Bauls tool of focus, it is alive awake and spirit is infused in their Yantra. The Gopis were the lovers of Krishna, when Krishna would play his flute they would go mad with divine love and come running to Krishna they would drop everything and run to him. Baul Gopi Yantra can make one mad with divine desire of love and yearning it is a trance instrument, when Babu starts to play all the world disappears and days go by without my mind I forget what I am supposed to do, it takes one out of this world. The difference between classic tantra and Baul tantra is that the tools and techniques are different not all but some.
Preserving Indian Music, Folk, Classical, Baul and Indian Cinema, helping young people learn Indian Music from all over India, Mastering Indian Music and creating New World Music and Fusion.
The Ektara Foundation was created and registered in Mumbai, India in 2008 it has been inactive as life has taken Babu Kishan to Canada and now back to India. Time is precious and it is of the upmost important to preserve and pass on the legendary stories and techniques of Indian Music.
Indian Music in its pristine form is disappearing, Folk, Classical, Baul, the Spiritual Music of India. A major focus is on preserving the Yogic Baul Minstrel Musical Tradition and Baul sadhana clearing up the misconceptions about what Baul is? It is important to preserve Baul and Baul song and dance accurately because it has been hijacked by Cultural Appropriation and Academics have changing the narrative.
Educating and keeping Traditional India Music alive in this world.
Babu Kishan has spent a lifetime fundraising for others, he has fundraised for many temples, societies, schools, disasters. He has fundraised for his own lineage and for his father with no benefit to himself and gave all credit to his father.
Babu Kishan has supported and encouraged Bauls in Birbhum for decades. Babu is a pioneer on bringing his one and only Lineage to the World.
No one in this world would know about Baul,
without all the leg work Babu has done.
No one in this world would have copied him in his path trying to be him, running around to Universities and trying to get in touch with his friends and musician colleages, the place he traveled, everybody follows Babu wanting into Bollywood ect..
The patchwork Guduri he designed for his father is worn today by many Bauls.
The Baul women's dress he designed for the Film Tagore about his aunt Radharani Dasi is worn today by a new Baul singer.
There are no Bangladeshi Bauls that is just a fabrication to fundraise.
Baul is extinct all we can do is preserve and all is with Babu not with these new made up lineage.
Without all the work he has done in the 1970's 1980's, 1990's and onward,
no one in this world would know what or who Baul is. If not for Babu Kishan's effort and hard work keeping the flame of Baul alive, the flame that his ancestors going back thousands of years to the modern day and the flame of his Grandfather and Father have kept alive.
Babu has organized, managed and created a framework for all to follow in. He has observed that most have taken and made up stories and lineages but have never given credit or mentioned his name? Now it is time for Babu Kishan to preserve and tell his story full and final.
Please help support an authentic 'Baul Guru' from an authentic lineage.
The Ektara Foundation
registered 2007 in Mumbai India
Please be careful who you donate too, not all are legitimate Bauls or honest.
Please contact Babu Kishan and have a conversation in how you can help.
He has been a cultural representative India and Indian Music around the World for 40 years
[email protected]
Ektara is also known as:
Gopi Yantra aka Gopi Chand
Gopi Yantra
A Baul Yantra it is called the Gopi Yantra or Gopi Chand more commonly known as an Ektara the one stringed instrument that symbolised peace and unity to the Baul.
The Gopi Yantra is the Bauls tool of focus, it is alive awake and spirit is infused in their Yantra. The Gopis were the lovers of Krishna, when Krishna would play his flute they would go mad with divine love and come running to Krishna they would drop everything and run to him. Baul Gopi Yantra can make one mad with divine desire of love and yearning it is a trance instrument, when Babu starts to play all the world disappears and days go by without my mind I forget what I am supposed to do, it takes one out of this world. The difference between classic tantra and Baul tantra is that the tools and techniques are different not all but some.
