The first volume from 1962 we had posted in 2016. See here. On the back Imrat Khan is also mentioned as playing the Surbahar. But this was true only for the first volume.
Showing posts with label Sitar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sitar. Show all posts
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Saturday, 4 November 2017
Thursday, 2 November 2017
Vilayat Khan - Music from India Series 11 - LP published in England in 1969
We continue now our series of LPs by the great Vilayat Khan. Here we post the English edition of an LP which was released also the same year in India, but with a different cover:
The reason why we choose the English edition, though we have the Indian edition in our collection, is that English pressings are of better quality.
This English edition we received from LF from Scotland. Many thanks to him for sharing so generously.
Sunday, 7 May 2017
Ustad Rais Khan (25 November 1939 – 6 May 2017) passed away yesterday. May his soul rest in peace.
Ustad Rais Khan performing along with his son Farhan at the Tehzeeb festival in
December 2010
We posted in September 2014 a cassette by the great Ustad, who had a very personal and beautiful style and a wonderful touch:
Our blogger friend on Flat, Black and Classical: Indian Classical Music on Vinyl and Cassette posted in July 2016 an LP published in 1980 in Germany:
http://flatblackandclassical.blogspot.de/2016/07/ustad-rais-khan-new-sitar-loft-1008-1980.html
On the artist see:
Thursday, 13 April 2017
Nikhil Banerjee - Master of the Sitar - LP published in Eastern Germany in 1986
This is the Eastern German edition of an LP orginally published in Western Germany in 1982 under the title "Raga, Baul Melody & Tabla Solo", but with a different cover. The Western German LP "Master of the Sitar" had the same cover as the LP here, but a different content.
The content of the LP here was later republished on CD without the Tabla Solo (out of three LPs they made two CDs, omitting the Tabla Solo). The label - Chhanda Dhara - closed its business in 2009 and their CDs are very rare nowadays.
Sunday, 2 April 2017
Nikhil Banerjee - Music from India - LP released in India in 1968
Here my very first Nikhil Banerjee LP. I bought it in the early 1970s. It was many years one of my absolute favourits and it is still today.
This LP was also published in Great Britain as volume 6 of the "Music from India" series.
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
Vilayat Khan & Bismillah Khan - Duets - LP released in Great Britain in 1967
This was one of the most popular LPs of classical Indian music in the 1960s and 1970. It is very surprising that it never was released on CD. Perhaps the master tape got lost.
This was one of my first LPs of Raga music. The first one was the legendary "Pakistani Soul Session" with the great Sarangi master Ustad Nathu Khan (see here), the second the very beautiful LP "North Indian Master of the Sarod" by Ali Akbar Khan (see here). One or two years later (1969 or 1970) I bought in Holland two LPs: my very first Ravi Shankar (see here) and the one posted here.
Saturday, 18 March 2017
Vilayat Khan - The Supreme Genius of Ustad Vilayat Khan - LP released in India in 1968
Here one of the most legendary LPs of Vilayat Khan. It was later also released on CD, but unfortunately it seems that they lost the master tape and took a defective recording as the source for the CD. I checked copies from several generations of the CD. They all had the same defect.
So the best is to have the original LP. I bought this one in Southall near London in the mid 1970s.
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Friday, 10 March 2017
Vilayat Khan - Ameer Khusrau - A Tribute by Ustad Vilayat Khan - LP published in India in 1975
Here we present a wonderful LP by the great Ustad Vilayat Khan. It is interesting to compare his Raga Saazgiri, a creation by Ameer Khusrau, with the one performed the same year by another outstanding Sitar player, Ustad Mohammad Sharif Khan Poonchwale of Pakistan, also performed as a tribute to Hazrat Amir Khusrau. See here.
We will post in the next couple of weeks about four more LPs by Ustad Vilayat Khan.
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Classical Music of North India - Duet of Sitar and Sarod - LP published in 1982 in Japan
It seems that in Japan quite a number of LPs (and also CDs) were published which hardly ever made it to Europe and probably also not to the US. Here we will post two LPs from 1982 which we recently bought from Japan. It seems that they were never republished on CD.
Even in the Seven Seas Discography on Discogs only 5 LPs are listed from this ethnic series which should have at least 26 volumes and none of the two we post here.
The musicians on this LP are from Nepal. The Sitar and the Tabla players appear on a CD published in 1996 in Nepal. On the Sarod player see here. He has a CD on the French label PlayaSound. Sambhu Prasad Misra, the Tabla player, seems to be known by connoisseurs. There is a very interesting article on him here. He passed away on 12th of march 2002.
Perhaps among the readers of this blog there is someone who knows Japanese well enough to give us a translation of the liner notes or at least the essence of it.
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