Showing posts with label Budhaditya Mukherjee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budhaditya Mukherjee. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 November 2018

Budhaditya Mukherjee - Raga Ahir Bhairav & Raga Puriya - LP released in India in 1979


Here the artist's first album on The Gramophone Company of India. One can hear here the artist's proximity to Ustad Vilayat Khan. He plays in Raga Puriya the same composition as Vilayat Khan did on an LP in 1976. Budhaditya's version seems almost like a copy. But even if so this a great album.
The complete education of Budhaditya Mukherjee took place under his father Bimalendu Mukherjee, who was a reprentative of the Imdadkhani Gharana.




Monday, 5 November 2018

Budhaditya Mukherjee - Sitar Wizard - LP released in India in 1978


Here a wonderful and quite rare LP by the brilliant Budhaditya Mukherjee. Until recently it was missing in my collection. I even didn't know of its existence till a couple of years ago. It is the second LP by the artist. I bought already his first LP when it came out and then followed his career buying all his other LPs as they came out and also a number of his CDs. This is the 5th recording by the artist on our blog. We will post two more in the next couple of days.
This LP I bought recently from India. As almost always with used LPs from India it suffers from certain shortcomings. The most visible are the waterstains on the back. I think this comes with the years from the extreme humidity of the monsoon season. I even have a number of LPs which had had in the past mold on the back. The LP itself has quite some surface noises, which might have come from being played many times with a quite used needle. LPs in India suffer often also from dust. With ClickRepair it was easy to get rid of these surface noises.
The funny thing is that this LP was sold as being in a 85 to 90% perfect condition for the LP and the cover was judged excellent. This one has probably to understand in an Indian context where old LPs are in general in much worse conditions. But anyway, I'm happy to have this LP now.




Thursday, 1 February 2018

Budhaditya Mukherjee - Sitar & Surbahar Recital - Cassette released in India in 1988


Here a beautiful cassette by the well known Sitar master. In the past we posted already three LPs by him. See here


Cassettes coming from India have often certain shortcomings. Sometimes it is in the recording itself (like here), but more often in the manufactoring.

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Budhaditya Mukherjee (Sitar) - Instrumental Music of India - LP published in 1982 in the Soviet Union.


A beautiful LP by Budhaditya Mukherjee recorded 1979 in the Soviet Union
and published there as an LP in 1982.

Side 1:
Raga Puria Kalyan


Side 2:
1. Raga Basant Mukhari
2. Tabla Solo in Tintal



Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Budhaditya Mukherjee - Sitar Wizard - LP published in India in 1977


This is the very first LP by Budhaditya Mukherjee, published when he was 21 years old. Unfortunately the LP is not a perfect pressing.

Side 1:
Raga Mian Ki Todi (19:00)


Side 2:
1. Raga Yaman (11:13)
2. Tappa in Raga Misra Kafi (7:19)