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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Nicht einmal Gott steht höher als der Klang - Dhrupadas aus Darbhanga - Recordings from the Dhrupad-Mela Vrindaban 1982 - WDR broadcast from 1982

Abhay Narayan Mallik, accompanied by Ramkumar & Premkumar Mallik 

during their concert on 26th of march 1982 in Vrindaban

Here we present a broadcast by Peter Pannke with recordings of Dhrupad singers of the Darbhanga Gharana, recorded at the Dhrupad Festival in Vrindaban, India, in march 1982. The announcements by Peter Pannke are in German. Some of these recordings were later published in their complete versions on several CDs. A neighbour recorded it for me back then from the radio on the two sides of a 90 minutes cassette. Here the details:

Side 1:

1. Mangalacarana by Siya Ram Tewari (1:30)

2. Announcement by Peter Pannke (5:07)

 3. Siya Ram Tewari - End of Alap (5:02)

4. Announcement by Peter Pannke (3:08)

5. Siya Ram Tewari - Raga Jaijaiwanti - Dhamar (19:10)

6. Announcement by Peter Pannke (7:26)

7. Ram Chatur Mallick - Raga Sindura - Dhamar (4:56)

Side 2:

 1. Ram Chatur Mallick - Raga Sindura - Dhamar, continued (6:50)

2. Announcement by Peter Pannke (1:13)

3. Abhay Narayan Mallik - Sadav Vasant - Dhamar (11:10)

4. Announcement by Peter Pannke (2:01)

5. Ramji Upadhyaya - Pakhawaj - Parants (1:12)

6. Announcement by Peter Pannke (1:52)

7. Bidur Mallik - Raga Jay Jayvanti - Dhamar (11:47)

8. Announcement by Peter Pannke (0:56)

9. Ramkumar & Premkumar Mallik - Raga Bhup Kalyan - End of Alap (4:56)

10. Announcement by Peter Pannke (0:22)

11. Ramkumar & Premkumar Mallik - Raga Bhup Kalyan - Sul Tala (2:26)

12. Abspann (0:15)

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Ram Chatur Mallick - All India Radio recordings (1983) published as a cassette in India in 1990

These recordings exist also on LP: PMLP 3070 (1990). The LP is extremely rare like most of the AIR releases published in 1990 and 1991 by The Gramophone Company of India. As the publication year was already a couple of years beyond the end of the LP in the west, these LPs never made it to the west and even in India apparently they didn't find a wide distribution anymore.

But in India - and sometimes even in the west in Indian shops - in the 1990s one could get these releases as cassettes. This way music lovers who visited India then were able to obtain them and bring them home. From one of these music lovers I purchased recently this cassette.

I apologize for having posted the wrong version of the cassette. In effect I had forgotten that the cassette I purchased recently was quite damaged in the beginning of side 2 as sometimes happens with cassettes. But I have already for many years a rip from my friend KF. And this one is in good shape. I had the intention to post this version together with the scans of the recently bought cassette.

Here now the correct version of the files as originally intendet. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Ram Chatur Mallick (1902-1990) - Chant Dhrupad & Dhamar - LP published in France in 1977

Up to now we presented in our Dhrupad Series only members of the Dagar family. Now we turn to some other Dhrupad traditions, first to the one from Darbhanga.

I still remember very vividly how happy and surprised I was when this LP was released. For the first time one was able to hear a completely different Dhrupad tradition. This was a very strong and robust style compared to the one by the Dagars. I loved it immediately. Later, in the 1990s, I was able to visit many concerts by later masters of this Gharana, namely Vidur Mallik and Premkumar Mallik. These singers were so enthousiastic and energetic. It was always a great experience to see them in concert. It was Peter Pannke who brought these musicians reguarly to Germany and Europe and produced quite a number of fantastic CDs by them, first of Ram Chatur Mallik, then by other members of the Mallik family.

But this LP preceded all the work of Peter Pannke. Around the same time I discovered the LP, released in India, by Siyaram Tiwari, another great master of the Darbhanga Gharana, which we posted in 2011. These two LPs were for quite a while amongst my favourite LPs and I still like them very much.

Ram Chatur Mallik was the great old master of the Darbhanga Gharana. The German author, journalist, composer, musician, ethnomusicologist and producer Peter Pannke produced in the early 1980s broadcasts by Ram Chatur Mallik and other singers of the Darbhanga Gharana, recorded at the Dhrupad Samaroh in Vrindaban, India, in 1982. Out of these recordings later a number of CDs were published: first in 1988 the fantastic CD by Ram Chatur Mallik - The King of Dhrupad (unfortunately no longer available for many years) and later a number of other CDs by other members of the family like Vidur Mallik and his sons Ram Kumar Mallik and Prem Kumar Mallik.

Peter Pannke made also a whole series of recordings by Ram Chatur Mallik in 1984/5 in Vrindaban which he released in 2002 as two boxes of 6 CDs each in a very limited edition of only around 35 copies. There were attempts to make them available more widely but unfortunately it never happened.

Next we will post a cassette of AIR recordings by Ram Chatur Mallik, some recordings by Siyaram Tiwari and a number of recordings by the excellent Abhay Narayan Mallik, the disciple and successor of Ram Chatur Mallik, who always gave vocal support to his master during concerts and recordings.

On the artist see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Chatur_Mallik

http://www.dhrupadmusic.org/darbhanga.html

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo15701317.html

https://www.amazon.com/King-Dhrupad-Pandit-Ramchatur-Mallick/dp/8184573332

On the Darbhanga Gharana see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darbhanga_Gharana

https://sreenivasaraos.com/tag/dhrupad/

http://www.paperbackswap.com/Dharbanga-Tradition-Drupada-Selina-Thielemann/book/8186569014/

http://www.itcsra.org/Gharana-Details.aspx?SubId=26&GharanaId=37&Type=B

On Peter Pannke see:

https://www.india-instruments.de/peter-pannke-tagore-preis.html

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