Friday, 20 March 2015

Gharanon Ki Gaiki - Vol. 5 - Roshan Ara Begum (1917-1982) - Vol. 1 - Kirana Gharana


Next come 4 cassettes by the Malka-e-Mausiqi (The Queen of Music) Roshan Ara Begum, legendary singer of the Kirana Gharana. See here our post of an LP from the eraly 1960s. There you find also more information about the artist.



Monday, 16 March 2015

Gharanon Ki Gaiki - Vol. 1 - Ustad Salamat Ali Khan (1934-2001) - Vol. 1 - Sham Chorasi Gharana

Gharanon Ki Gaiki - Schools of Music - Set of 20 cassettes published in 1978 in Pakistan


Over the next couple of weeks we will post the 20 cassettes from this wonderful box devoted to the vocal Gharanas existing in Pakistan. Many of the singers were amongst the greatest of their times, though some were hardly known outside some circles of connoisseurs. The singers were accompanied by equally great Sarangi and Tabla players. Just wonderful. I bought this box in the early 1980s in a Pakistani record shop in Southall near London.




Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Dhyanesh Khan (1942-1990) - Master of the Sarod - LP published in Germany in 1978


The only commercial recording by the late second son of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. I saw him live in Düsseldorf, Germany, probably the same year this LP was recorded.





On the artist see:
http://sarod-atish.technokraftsolutions.com/mygurus.html

Friday, 13 February 2015

Anjanibai Lolekar (born 1928) - LP published in India in 1968


Here the third post of great female voices of the Agra Gharana. Anjanibai Lolekar was born on 8.9.1928. She learnt from Ustad Anwar Hussain Khan (1910-1966), a brother of Ustad Khadim Hussain Khan and Ustad Latafat Hussain Khan. If she is still living, I don't know. Hardly anything can be found about her in the internet.