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Another beautiful LP - the 8th posted on this blog - by the great master.
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Saturday, 24 January 2015
Friday, 16 January 2015
Ali Akbar Khan (1922-2009) - Sarod - LP published in 1967 in India
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Another beautiful LP by the great master - the 10th we post here on this blog. I received this one - which I used to have in the 1970s as a LP, but later only as a copy on CD - recently as an additional free LP when I ordered some LPs in India. The condition of the LP itself and of the cover is not the very best, unfortunately.
Tabla: Shankar Ghosh
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Sunday, 11 January 2015
Gangubai Hangal (1913-2009) - Two Soulful Melodies - LP published in India in 1979
Here another great female voice from the Kirana Gharana. See our older posts on Hirabai Barodekar (1905-1989) and Roshan Ara Begum (1917-1982).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangubai_Hangal
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1913433/Gangubai-Hangal
http://www.parrikar.org/vpl/?page_id=267
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mausam/gangubai.html
http://www.gangubaihangalgurukul.gov.in/
http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2304/stories/20060310000708000.htm
and many more to be found by googling her name.
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Nissar Hussain Khan (1909-1993) - LP published in India in 1972
Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan of Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana was one of the greatest singers in mid 20th century. He was an outstanding specialist of Taranas (see here the second side). His best known disciple and nephew Rashid Khan unfortunately didn't keep alive much from this rich heritage. For more details on the artist see:
Here the corrected files:
Thursday, 18 December 2014
Chatur Lal (1925-1965) - The Drums of India - LP originally published in the US in 1961
Re-edition from end of 1960s or beginning of 1970s of a LP originally published in 1961.
One of the great Tabla players of the 1950s and 1960s, famous for his accompaniment to greats like Ali Akbar Khan, Ravi Shankar, his younger brother Ram Narayan, Sharan Rani and many great singers.
See here our post of a LP by Ram Narayan and Chatur Lal.
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Sabri Moudallal (1918-2006) - Classical Arab music from Aleppo, Syria - Broadcasts from 1988 & 1989 by WDR, Cologne, Germany
Broadcast of a concert on 6th of february 1988 at Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany, and studio recordings, probably done around the same time and broadcast in 1989, by the outstanding classical and religious (Sufi) singer from Aleppo, Syria. Music from a very endangered culture. See also our post of a Sufi programme by the same singer here.
Many thanks to KF for making the CD covers.
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Mahapurush Misra (1932-1987) - Rythmes de l'Inde - French edition of an LP originally published in 1966 in the US
Originally published in 1966 in the US as "Indian Drums" by Connoisseur Society, CS 1466.
With Lahara on Sarod by Ali Akbar Khan.
Unfortunately we only recently noted that the pickup needle was hanging for a moment at one or two spots in the last track. By putting a small weight on the pickup we could get beyond this. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Here the corrected files:
“Pandit Mahapurush Mishra (1932-1987) was a disciple of Pandit Anokhelal
Mishra, a revered master of Tabla. Mahapurush was a famous Tabla accompanist to
many topmost musicians and a professor at the Ali Akbar College of Music in
Calcutta (now Kolkata). He spent most of his time during the late 1960s in USA
teaching, recording, and appearing widely in numerous classical music concerts.
There are far too few of his Tabla solos in circulation. However, this solo
album of Pandit Mahapurush Mishra, a very rare-of-its-kind, is an invariably
spectacular display of his virtuosity and musicality, which he is renowned
for.
Longtime Tabla master, sideman to the stars, and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan’s
main accompanist throughout the better part of three decades until his death,
Pandit Mahapurush Mishra has also appeared on the Beatles b-side of Lady
Madonna, George Harrison’s The Inner Light (recorded in Bombay in January 1968
with the vocal tracks added in London the next month) as well as on Harrison’s
Wonderwall soundtrack.”
See here our posts of performances by his guru Pandit Anokhelal Mishra:
Sunday, 2 November 2014
Nikhil Banerjee (1931-1986) at WDR, Cologne, Germany - Broadcasts recorded 1971, 1975 and 1984
CD 1:
Raga Bageshri (27.11.1971)
This recording was published by Chhanda Dhara on CD:
Nikhil Banerjee - Alltime Classics - CD 1 (SNCD 701/02)
(now no longer available)
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CD 2:
Nikhil Banerjee - Alltime Classics - CD 1 (SNCD 701/02)
(now no longer available)
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CD 2:
Raga Mishra Khamaj
Commentaries on Indian music given by Nikhil Banerjee
after the studio recording of Raga Desh (see CD 3)
after the studio recording of Raga Desh (see CD 3)
(studio recording by WDR on 10.11.1984. Moderator: Jan Reichow)
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Many thanks to KF for the recordings and the covers.
Friday, 17 October 2014
Nikhil Banerjee - In Concerts - Set of 2 LPs published in India in 1988
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Vol. 1
At the Ali Akbar College of Music, San Rafael, Claifornia, USA on 12.10.1985
Tabla: Swapan Chowdhury
Vol. 2
At Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India on 3.2.1982
Tabla: Anindo Chatterjee
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Saturday, 11 October 2014
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Özbekiston Ajoyib San'at Ustalari - Ciqarish 32 - Masters of the art of Uzbekistan - Part 32 - LP published in Uzbekistan
Re-edition - published probably in the 1980s or early 1990s - of some beautiful recordings from 1966 and 1967 by Makom singers F. Baratova, accompanied by a traditional ensemble, and N. Boltayev, accompanying himself on Tor (Tar - a long necked lute) plus A. Ismailov on Doira (a frame drum).
Friday, 19 September 2014
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