Suha – Dhammar

Dhammar (Suha) is a dhrupad composition performed by Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar. The track appears as the 18th entry on the album Dhrupad, released on June 8, 2018 under the label Country & Eastern in digital media format.

The recording spans 1 minute and 10 seconds and exemplifies the dhrupad style, a vocal genre within the Hindustani classical tradition characterized by its emphasis on rhythmic precision, textual clarity, and meditative phrasing. The Dagar brothers, descendants of the Dagarbani gharana, employ the suha raga in this composition, though specific lyrical content or structural details of the performance remain undocumented in available sources.

The album Dhrupad compiles works by the Dagar brothers, both of whom belong to the 19th generation of the Dagar lineage. Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (1929–1990) and Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar (1932–2013) were instrumental in preserving and propagating the dhrupad tradition through performances and recordings. This particular release postdates their lifetimes, suggesting an archival or posthumous compilation of their work. The label Country & Eastern, known for its focus on traditional and folk music, distributed the album exclusively in digital formats.

No additional metadata regarding the recording session, accompanying artists, or historical context of this specific track is provided in the available references. The brevity of the composition aligns with the dhammar subgenre, a lighter and often devotional variant of dhrupad that typically features concise poetic verses set to a steady rhythmic cycle.