This is one of the very first LPs I bought around 1970. I loved it very much, especially Ali Akbar Khan's playing, and played it many many hundreds of times. This is the UK edition. It was published the same year also in India as EASD 1296.
Sunday, 13 March 2016
Sunday, 21 February 2016
Roshan Ara Begum (1917-1982) - Roshan Ara Begum Sings - LP published in 1961 in Pakistan and also in India
Here the second of the two LPs by the great singer of the Kirana Gharana published in the beginning of the 1960s. The first one we posted in July 2012. See here.
We also had posted in March 2015 four cassettes by her published in 1978. See here.
This LP we bought in the 1970s with a generic cover (see below) in a Pakistani record shop in Southall, near London. Recently we bought another copy from India with the original cover. We offer here the music from the LP we bought in the 1970s (Pakistani pressing) and the covers of the recently bought LP (Indian pressing).
The generic cover of the Pakistani pressing I bought in the 1970s:
Thursday, 21 January 2016
Mohammad Reza Shajarian - Concert Paris September 1995 - Mahour & Dashti - Cassette published for 1995 tour
Beautiful cassette of a concert by the great master of Avaz Ostad Mohammad Reza Shajarian with Parviz Meshkatian (1955-2009) on Santur and his son Homayoun Shajarian on Tombak. The cassette was produced to be sold at the 1995 tour of the musicians. I bought it at their concert in Bonn. As always, the concert was very impressive and intense. This cassette was never republished on CD.
About the artists see:
Shajarian has his own label in Iran named Delawaz (see first link above), on which he published over 30 CDs, all very traditional, except for 3 or 4 with symphonic orchestra.
These albums can be obtained from: info@raga-maqam-dastgah.com You can request a list from them.
Friday, 15 January 2016
Barno Ishakova (Iskhakova) (1927-2001) - MP3-CD from Uzbekistan
Here a MP3-CD by the great Shashmaqam singer Barno Ishakova (also transcribed as Iskhakova or Itzhakova), considered as the greatest female singer of the 20th century in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
Outside of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan she is hardly known. Only very few tracks by her have been published in two anthologies, both produced by Jean During:
1. Asie centrale - Traditions classiques, a 2 CD set, Ocora - Radio France, C 560035-36, published in 1993, unfortunately for many years out of print.
2. Echoes of Paradise - Women Voices from Central Asia - Echos du Pardis – Voix de femmes d'Asie Centrale – Avaz-e Minu, Set of 2 CDs, published in 2015. This fantastic double CD can be obtained from info@raga-maqam-dastgah.com
A couple of tracks we posted here in 2012. See, also for more information on the artist:
Again many thanks to Danny, who brought this CD from Uzbekistan and shared it generously with us.
Friday, 1 January 2016
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
Mallikarjun Mansur (1910-1992) - LP published in 1969 in India
Here the second LP by the great singer. The first one we posted in June 2011.
See here. We provided now also flac files.
Saturday, 12 December 2015
Yeshwantrai Purohit (1916-1964) - Ragas Malkauns & Sohini - LP published in India in 1965
Here a wonderful LP by a great singer of the Kirana Gharana, of whom one says, that he is one of the very few whose music has this hypnotic spell for which the music of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan was so famous and which didn't come really across in the short recordings we only have of the great Ustad.
“Late Pandit Yeshwantrai Purohit was one of the foremost exponents of the
‘Kirana Gharana’. Born in Bhavnagar on 27th December 1916, he had his early
training in music from the Late Pt. Shankarrao Vyas, Pt. Narayan Moreshwar Khare
and Late Pandit Omkarnath Thakur of Gwalior Gharana. Later, being attracted by
the Kirana style of Khansaheb Abdul Karim Khan, he became a devout disciple of
Pandit Balkrishnabua Kapileshwari, a direct disciple of the Late Khansaheb Abdul
Karim Khan. Possessing a rich sonorous voice with tremendous depth of feeling
and understanding of the Ragas, his devotion and dedication and his purity of
style in the development of the Raga, he participated in many a concerts and
attained fame all over India. Unfortunately, he died at the young age of 47
years on 3rd January 1964, leaving a void in the music world. Some of his famous
disciples are Pandit Vinayak Vora (Vocal and Taar-Shehnai), Arun Sewak and
Dakshesh Dhruv. Padma Vibhushan Pandit Ravi Shankar, the world- renowned
exponent of Indian Classical Music, has honoured Yeshwantrai by describing him
as a great Sadhak.”
from: http://www.parrikar.org/vpl/?page_id=680
Regarding the music see also our post of an LP by Ustad Abdul Karim Khan and some of the comments there.
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