Here an early mono edition of the legendary LP.
Friday, 11 November 2016
Sunday, 6 November 2016
Vinayak Vora (1929 - 2006) - The Magic of Dilruba and Tarshehnai - Cassette published in India in 1990
For more about the artist and some beautiful longer performances, see:
Tar Shehnai
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
More Sursringar - Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury (1901-1972) - Raga Gandhari
In 2014 we posted already two recordings by Ustad Allauddin Khan and Radhika Mohan Maitra, in which they play the rare Dhrupad instrument Sursringar. See here. There exist only very few recordings of this instrument. In 2013 we posted a LP which had on the second side a track played on the Surshringar. See here. Now we present another recording by the amateur musician Birendra Kishore Roy Choudhury. I received this recording many many years ago on a cassette from VN, a collector of Dhrupad recordings in UK. My friend KF digitalised the recording and made a nice cover for it.
"Pt. Birendra Kishore Roy Choadhury (~1901-1972?) was from a family of
wealthy zamindars (landowners) in East Bengal, what is now Bangladesh. The
estate was called Gouripur, in the Mymensingh district. His father, Brajendra
Kishore Roy Choudhury, was renowned as a patron of musicians. His son not only
continued this tradition of patronage, but became the disciple of many of the
great musicians of his time, including Mohammed Wazir Khan, the great Binkar of
Rampur and the last descendant of Tansen's daughter Saraswati; Mohammed Ali Khan
who was the second son of Basat Khan; Imdad Khan, founder of the lineage of
sitar represented today by his grandson Vilayat Khan; Allauddin Khan, father of
Ali Akbar Khan and Annapurna Devi and guru to Ravi Shankar, and Hafiz Ali Khan,
the great sarod maestro. Birendra Kishore Roy Choudhury was a master of the
Dhrupad style, especially in instrumental music, and played the Bin, the
Sursringar and the Seni Rabab."
David Philipson shares on this link a very interesting small book "Indian Music and Tansen" by Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury, which I made into a pdf file. See download link below.
See here a Raga Barwa by him on Rudra Veena: https://www.mediafire.com/?stpc5rgt65o4i#09nezectr2f4o
Thursday, 27 October 2016
Munawar Ali Khan (1930-1989) - Classical Vocal - LP published in 1980 in India
In 2011 we posted three LPs by Munawar Ali Khan. This fourth (or rather third) LP I only was recently able to obtain, funnily enough from a LP dealer on Discogs in Kazakhstan. Soon we will post also a cassette from EMI Pakistan, recorded live in Pakistan.
Many music lovers lack justice toward him by comparing him to his incomparable father, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. Munawar Ali Khan created his own style and one has to appreciate him in himself. I have to say, that I always, from the first LP till today, was very fond of his very relaxed and beautiful way of singing. Even his so-called light classical performances. See his wonderful LP of Punjabi songs: Pahadi & Kafi.
Note the mistake the label made by naming the Raga on Side 2 also as Raga Bairagi, though giving the names of the compositions correctly (I guess).
Saturday, 22 October 2016
Three Illustrious Brothers: Pandit Maniram (1920-1985), Pandit Pratap Narayan (1918-2002) & Pandit Jasraj (born 1930) - LP published in India in 1976
This is an LP which I was very fond of for a number of years when I bought it in Southall near London in the second half of the 1970. I liked very much the soaring voice of Pandit Maniram. And also the accompanists: the wonderful Sultan Khan on Sarangi and the outstanding Nizamuddin Khan on Tabla. There was a time when I was so fond of the playing of Ustad Nizamuddin Khan that I bought every LP on which he played, regardless of the main musician.
Thursday, 20 October 2016
From Iran to India, back to Iran and beyond
After this long and ardeous journey through all these provinces of Iran is completed, passing places where foreigners normally never get to, we will spend some time in India in the next couple of weeks, before passing again through Iran for some classical Dastgah music and then getting to some other places.
Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - The last (or perhaps rather the first) cassette with the number zero
This cassette with the number zero serves either as an introduction to the series
or a resumée, containing short excerpts from the other cassettes.
Side A:
18 tracks
Side B:
17 tracks
Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 27: Music of the Qashqai (Fars) & from Hawraman (Kurdistan)
Side A:
Music of the Qashqai - Ashiqi Music
Singer accompanying himself on Kemencheh and a Tombak player
Side B:
1. Music of the Qashqai - Sarbani Music (that's what I read)
A singer accompanied by a Ney player
2. Music from Hawraman - Kurdistan
Vocal
Note: The Qashqai are a nomadic tribe of Turkish origin living mainly in the province of Fars.
Monday, 17 October 2016
Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 26: Music from Kerman
Side A:
Music from Kerman
1. & 2. Vocal
3. Group singing, Sorna and drum
Side B:
Music from Kerman
1. Group singing, Sorna and drum
2. Sorna and drum
Sunday, 16 October 2016
Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 25: Music from Hormozgan & Bushehr
Side A:
Music from Minab - Hormozgan
1. Songs from the Zar Ritual
2. Vocal
Side B:
Music from Minab - Hormozgan
1. Molud-Khani
Two singer who accompany themselves on the Samma (Daf)
Music from Bushehr
2. - 5. Call & response singing with handclapping and several drums
We had already music from Hormozgan on volumes 12 to 16.
Saturday, 15 October 2016
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Mirror and Song - A collection of 28 cassettes of regional and religious music of Iran published in Iran, recorded in 1994 - Cassette 23: Music from Kermanshah & Hawraman (Oraman)
Side A:
Music from Kermanshah - Sahneh
Tanbur Music
Seyyed Khalil Alinezhad (Alinejad) (1968-2001) - Vocal & Tanbur
Side B:
1. Music from Kermanshah - Guran
Tanbur Music
Ali Akbar Moradi (Tanbur) & Taher Yarveysi (Vocal)
2. Music from Hawraman (Oraman)
Vocal
Seyyed Khalil Alinezhad was a famous musician of the Ahl-e Haq sect, in which the Tanbur and its music is sacred. See our post http://oriental-traditional-music.blogspot.de/2013/01/seyed-jalaleddin-mohammadian-seyed.html.
For infos on the musician see:
Ali Akbar Moradi is the most famous Tanbur player of Kermanshah. He has many CDs. Taher Yarveysi is an excellent younger Tanbur player and singer. CDs by all these musicians can be obtained from: info@raga-maqam-dastgah.com
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