Oriental Traditional Music from LPs & Cassettes: Raga Adana

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Saturday, 19 January 2019

Bade Ghulam Ali Khan: Raga Adana & Raga Chhayanat & Lakshmi Bai (Laxmibai) Jadhav: Raga Lalit Bahar - Heritage - Cassette released in India in 1999

Here another cassette from the Heritage Series with beautiful archival recordings by two great singers of the first half of 20th century. Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan needs no introduction as he is very famous and we already posted five LPs and cassettes by him. See here.

Laxmibai Jadhav (1901-1979) is much less known. She was a legendary singer of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana and a disciple of Ustad Haider Khan (brother of Atrauli-Jaipur founder Alladiya Khan). She was contemporaneous with Kesarbai Kerkar and Mogubai Kurdikar and next to these two the third outstanding female singer of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana.

See on her:

https://chaityapatrika.com/?page_id=1099

On the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaipur-Atrauli_gharana

Next we will post more by her. Between 2014 and 2016 the Indian label Meera Music released seven albums by her. They can be purchased as MP3-320 files on CD Baby.

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mp3

Tuesday, 20 March 2018

Ram Chatur Mallik & Abhay Narayan Mallik - Vrindavan Dhrupad Samaroh, 1983 - Private CD

Here another great recording of Ram Chatur Mallik and his disciple Abhay Narayan Mallik.

This is another private CD, not a commercial one. It seems that an Indian collector made out of these recordings a private CD and created covers for it. This person seems to take a great pleasure in creating covers and to let them look like real ultra rare releases. Which is sort of funny and sympathetic. And looks nice.

I received these recordings from an Indian collector based in the US. Many many thanks to him for his kindness to share these. I received the music of the two CDs as one file, which is probably the original version.

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Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Khan Dagar - Ragas Lalita Gauri, Adana, Bhatiyar & Komal Rishabh Asavari

Here we present some recordings from Saptak Festival in 1982 (apparently from a 90 min. cassette) and an All India Radio Program broadcast in March 2001. Many thanks to KF for the recordings and the covers.

CD 1 - flac

CD 1 - mp3

CD 2- flac

CD 2 - mp3

Thursday, 5 January 2017

Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (1935-2017), the great singer of the Patiala Gharana, passed away on 4th of january 2017. May he rest in peace.

Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, the legendary and very charismatic singer of the Patiala Gharana and grandson of one of the two founders of the Gharana, passed away on the 4th of january 2017. Sometimes he was called Bade (older) Fateh Ali Khan in order to distinguish him from other singers who carry the same name. We present here in his memory some archival recordings. I don't remember anymore from whom I received these recordings. Our friend KF made a double CD out of them. I always was very fond of his deeply emotional voice and listened to many of his recordings literally hundreds of times. He has quite a number of LPs, cassettes and CDs released in Pakistan (nearly impossible to get outside of Pakistan), India, Germany, France and England. Some of them are available from: info@raga-maqam-dastgah.com

We posted already several cassettes by him in 2013 here and 2015 here (see there more information on the artist), here and here.

There exists a wonderful portrait - The True Ustad - by Ally Adnan, originally published in The Friday Times in Pakistan in 2013. I made a pdf-file out of it. It can be downloaded here:

The True Ustad

CD 1 & Scans - wave

CD 2 - wave

CD 1 & Scans - mp3

CD 2 - mp3

Comment on 7th of january 2017

The last couple of days I listened several times again to the Megh and Malkauns posted here. These two ragas were - together with Darbari - the favourite ragas of the Ustad and his renditions of them were legendary. I have to say, that even after decades of knowing the music of Fateh Ali Khan, I'm still each time blown away by the sheer intoxicating beauty of these recordings. For me it is an absolute summit of beauty and deep emotion. But, to tell the truth: there are quite a number of summits in Pakistani and Indian Raga music.

What also contributes to it is the exquisite Sarangi and Tabla accompaniment. Unsurpassable indeed. Very particular to Pakistani recordings of that period is that the Sarangi starts the rendition and lays down the atmosphere of the Raga. Only then the singer enters. In India this would be unthinkable. Pakistan always had in the past quite a number of outstanding Sarangiyas: Ustads Nathu Khan, Hamid Hussain Khan, Nabi Bakhsh, Ghulam Mohammad Khan and a few others. In the near future we will post more LPs by some of these great Sarangi masters.

Friday, 23 December 2011

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