Rani Raut

Recording of a performance by the bard Camalek Bahadur Dholi, aged ~54, and two assistants. This is the last of 4 epics recorded on 4 November 1969 at the administrative center of Dandeldhura District, Nepal, by Marc Gaborieau and Mireille Helffer of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). The recording was made in an enclosed space on a portable Nagra recorder at 19cm/s and simultaneously on minicassette. The digitalized version has been mounted from digitalizations of tapes archived at the Centre pour la Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (CREM), Université de Paris-X, Nanterre, France (http://crem.parisson.com). The relevant tracks are catalogued under the name "HISTOIRE DE RANI RAVAT" (10 tracks). Fragments lost due to tape changes have been restored in the present version from a cassette labeled "HUDKE 3", which was recorded at the same time as the tapes. (The cassette is not currently archived; the recording of the epic is on side A, beginning about 1 min. into the side.) The sound file is composed of 5 regions: #1 00:00:00,000 to 00:07:15,755 length 00:07:15,755; #2 00:07:15,755 to 00:09:06,931 length 00:01:51,175; #3 00:09:06,931 to 00:32:52,737 length 00:23:45,805; #4 00:32:52,737 to 00:34:14,414 length 00:01:21,676; #5 00:34:14,414 to 00:41:24,660 length 00:07:10,245. Sources: #1 CNRSMH_I_1970_041_009.02 0:00 to 7:15.755; #2 cassette HUDKE 3A 8:49.672 to 10:40.848; #3 CNRSMH_I_1970_041_010.01 0:07.649 to 23:53.456; #4 cassette HUDKE 3A 34:20.993 to 35:42.670; #5 CNRSMH_I_1970_041_011.01 00:05,646 to 7:15.893 (end of performance).