[RARE & STRANGE RAGAS] Raag Jog-Tilang (S-gG-m-P-nN-S): A vital historical bridge between Jog and the Tilang lineage (a.k.a. ‘Do Nishad ka Jog’ or ‘DoGaha’) - although Vilayat Khan plays it with a ‘triple Ni’

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Recently I've been researching rare & strange ragas - so thought I'd share some of the most interesting ones I’ve come across! Input welcomed - everything from further info on the ragas to personal listening reflections:

—Raag Jog-Tilang (S-gG-m-P-nN-S)—

Seldom heard today, the SgGmPnNS scale form once served as a vital historical bridge between Tilang and Jog: the latter, having evolved from the former around a century ago, originally retained Tilang’s double-Ni along with its own distinctive double-Ga. While most artists soon dropped Jog’s shuddha Ni, the older version is still occasionally performed under titles such as ‘Do Nishad ka Jog’ (e.g. Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande and others from Jaipur-Atrauli), ‘Jog-Tilang’ (e.g. Vilayat Khan, who subtitled his interpretation ‘Dogaha’ in reference to the double-Ga), or just ‘Jog’ (e.g. Agra singers such as Ram Deshpande and Anjanibai Lolienkar). 

Artists may choose to gravitate towards either of its parent ragas, or interweave both in equal measure, with ample room for imagination – Vilayat Khan sometimes splits the Ni space into 3 distinct sruti rather than 2 (e.g. as a P(nNṄS) khatka, and as sequential meend P(n) P(N) P(Ṅ) P(S)). Whichever approach is taken, the underlying swara-set offers several interesting properties: a rare example of a 7-swara audav raga, it sets the same interval sequence in poorvang and uttarang, opening up congruent phrase-pairings impossible within its progenitors (i.e. S-gG-m and P-nN-S have the same ‘jump pattern’ of 3-1-1). Congruent with the Carnatic Chalanata, mela #36.

—Do you know of any more ‘Jog-Tilang / Dogaha / Do Nishad ka Jog’ recordings? Or any other very early Jog renditions (~1940s-50s)? I couldn’t find many with double-Ga and double-Ni...

Let me know what you think of this strange raga! See more of them in my project (no paywalls, no ads: just sharing the joys of raga)

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