Moinuddin & Aminuddin Dagar - Yaman & Jayjayvanti - AIR boadcasts

Here two All India Radio (AIR) recordings by the Senior Dagar Brothers. 

Many thanks to KF for the recordings and the covers he created.

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Moinuddin & Aminuddin Dagar - Dhrupads - The Music of India III - LP published around 1966 or 1968 in Germany

We start this year with a series of Dhrupad recordings. We had already posted in the past quite a number of Dhrupad recordings, both vocal and instrumental. Here it will be only vocal recordings. 

We start with perhaps the most outstanding and beautiful recording of Dhrupad ever: a legendary LP by the Senior Dagar Brothers Moinuddin Dagar (1919-1966) and Aminuddin Dagar (1923-2000), published in the famous Unesco Collection "A Musical Anthology of the Orient" as volume 18. The recordings were done during their 1964 European tour (Berlin, Paris, Venice) in Berlin. For me it was the very first vocal Raga music I ever heard. I had listened to it many times in the end of the 1960s at the home of some friends and bought my own copy, the one we post here, in the early 1970s.

In the early 2000s there was a project to republish this whole Unesco series on CD, but unfortunately only very few volumes saw the day. I guess the label - Rounder in the US - gave up the project as the CDs didn't sell as expected. So these recordings were never republished, though there are still many copies around for sale, as one can see for example on Discogs. 

In 2011 we had posted another LP by the Senior Dagar Brothers, the one originally published in India by The Gramophone Company of India in 1965. See here.

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Dagar Brothers: Nasir Zahiruddin Dagar & Nasir Faiyazuddin Dagar - Dhrupad - Double LP Loft 1006/7 (Germany 1983)

 (Junior) Dagar Brothers:

Nasir Zahiruddin Dagar (Vocal) &

Nasir Faiyazuddin Dagar (Vocal)

Gopal Das (Pakhawaj)

Side 1:

Raga Darbari Kanada - Slow Alap (25:03)

Side 2:

Fast Alap & Composition "Sajana bina khelata"

in Dhamar Tal (14 Beats) &

Raga Adana - Composition "Shiva Shiva Shiva

Shankara Adideva" in Sultal (10 Beats) (22:26)

Side 3:

Raga Bihag - Alap (26:01)

Side 4:

1. Composition "Sundara hogayi"

in Chautal (12 Beats) (13:42) 

2. Raga Kedar - Short Alap, Composition "Bhajre

man Vishvanatha" in Chautal (12 Beats) (11:05)

There is on the original LP on side 3 at just before min. 10 a gap of 3 seconds. All copies of this LP show the same fault. My friend LF from Scotland corrected this and cleaned the LPs. Here what he says: "I have prepared a cleaned up version, where the gap has been removed and it is very difficult to hear the join (unless you're listening hard for it). Also all the pops and crackles have been removed. The music is brilliant and the sound is very good."

Many thanks, LF. We offer here now his versions, as flac and mp3 files.

Download LP 1 & Scans - flac

Download LP 2 - flac

Download LP 1 & Scans - mp3
Download LP 2 - mp3

Senior Dagar Brothers - Music of India - Vol. 5 - LP Columbia C 062-80105 - French edition of EALP 1291

Dagar Brothers: Ustad Moinuddin Khan & Aminuddin Khan

Mridang (Pakhawaj): S.V. Patwardhan

Side 1:

Alap - Raga Darbari Kanada (18:17)

Side 2:

Dhamar - Raga Darbari Kanada (8:17)

Dhrupad - Raga Adana (9:21)

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This is - as promised to Bolingo - the French edition of the same LP of which he had posted two Indian pressings.

See: http://bolingo69.blogspot.com/2011/06/senior-dagar-brothers-darbari-kanada.html