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Ram Chatur Mallik & Abhay Narayan Mallik - Vrindavan Dhrupad Samaroh, 1983 -...
Here another great recording of Ram Chatur Mallik and his disciple Abhay Narayan Mallik.This is another private CD, not a commercial one. It seems that an Indian collector made out of these recordings...
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Over 500 posts since we started this blog in 2011
Dear lovers of Oriental music traditions, by now we have posted over 500 LPs, cassettes, radio broadcasts and also a couple of CDs. We hope you enjoyed them and we also hope that we are able to...
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Darbhanga & Dagar - Various Artists - Dhrupad Series
Here another private CD with Abhay Narayan Mallik and some artists of the Dagarvani. Amongst the recordings on this CD is an outstanding Alap by Ustad Hussainuddin Dagar (Pt. Tansen Pandey)...
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The Hindustani Archives - Dhrupad & Khayal - Pandit Tansen Pandey & Ustad...
Here we have another outstanding recording by the great master of the Dagarvani, Ustad Hussainuddin Dagar (Pt. Tansen Pandey) (1909-1963), next to Rahimuddin Khan Dagar the only artist of the 18th...
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Frères Dagar: Nasir Moinuddin Dagar & Nasir Aminuddin Dagar - Inde du Nord -...
Here we have a private CD with beautiful recordings by the Senior Dagar Brothers. And here we have an extreme case of a private CD looking like a real release, in this case an LP published by Ocora,...
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Muhammad Hafeez Khan Talwandi (1933-2009) - Dhrupad from Pakistan - Talwandi...
Here we present two recordings by Muhammad Hafeez Khan Talwandi (1933-2009), who was, together with his late brother, the eminent representative of the Talwandi Gharana, the only Dhrupad Gharana in...
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Dhrupad recordings from All Pakistan Music Conference in 1961 - Mian Mehr Ali...
Talwandi Gharana. Lahore. Early 1920sHere we present some Dhrupad recordings from the All Pakistan Music Conference (APMC) in march and april 1961. We downloaded these many many years ago from the...
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Temple Dhrupad - Recordings from the Dhrupad-Mela in Vrindaban in 1982 - From...
Painting of Swami Haridas teaching Miyan Tansen in the presence of Emperor Akbar.Here some more recordings from the Dhrupad-Mela in Vrindaban, recorded by Peter Pannke in 1982 on behalf of WDR, the...
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Shiv Shankar Mukherjee (1928-2004) - Gouhar Bani style of Dhrupad - Raga Bhairo
Not much is known about this Dhrupad singer, except for the notes on the back side, taken from the booklet of the only commercial CD by the artist, published in 2004 by Makar Records in Paris (see...
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Falguni Mitra - Cassette published in India in 1992
"A foremost vocalist of North Indian Classical music and an outstanding exponent of its oldest and most revered genre, Dhrupad, Falguni Mitra has been a performing artiste since the age of 12. A Guru,...
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Sharafat Hussain Khan (1930-1985) - In Memoriam - Cassette published in India...
To close our Dhrupad Series (for now), which became much longer then originally intended, we present here a cassette by the great Ustad Sharafat Hussain Khan, who was, next to his teacher Ustad Faiyaz...
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Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (1929-1990) - Raga Mangeyabushan - Re-release of an LP...
This LP was one of the greatest discoveries ever for me. I still remember vividly how I first saw the cover hanging in the window of a record shop in Cologne and discovered that it was a Rudra Veena...
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Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (1929-1990) - Rudra Veena Recital - LP published in India...
Here another very beautiful LP by the great master. I bought this one in mid 1970s in one of the Indian record shops in Southall, UK. An additional highlight on this LP is the great Pakhawaj master...
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Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (1929-1990) - Rudra Vina - Copy of a cassette published...
These are the covers a friend of a friend created for this cassette. Many thanks to him.Here the cover of the copy I had received many years ago:Here we present another beautiful recording by the...
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Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (1929-1990) - Rudra Vina - Private double CD containing...
Here we present a private double CD from the collection of our friend KF. The two CDs contain two cassettes:1. Cassette MA 8508 published in Holland in 1988: Raga Yaman Kalyan from the concert in Mozes...
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Asad Ali Khan (1937-2011) - Rudra Veena - LP published in India in 1978
Here we present the only LP by the other great Rudra Veena master of recent decades, Ustad Asad Ali Khan. This LP was also a very exciting discovery for us as we were able to listen for the first time...
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Asad Ali Khan (1937-2011) - Rudra Veena - Raga Bihag - Concert in Nürnberg,...
Here we present a concert recording of Raga Bihag. The concert took place in Tafelhalle, Nürnberg, Germany. The recording was broadcast by WDR on 15th of november 1995. The Pakhawaj player was Mohan...
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Asad Ali Khan (1937-2011) - Rudra Veena - Echoes of Ancient Music - Cassette...
Here a beautiful cassette by the artist, shared generously by our friend Werner Durand. Many thanks.flacmp3
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The great Ustad Aslam Khan (1940-2018) passed away on 21st of March 2018
We just received this morning the sad news that the great Ustad Aslam Khan (1940-2018) passed away already on 21st of March 2018. May he rest in peace. We always were very fond of this outstanding...
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Asad Ali Khan (1937-2011) - Rudra Veena - Concert on October 29, 1999 in...
Here we present a private double CD containing a concert which took place on 29th of october 1999 in the big hall of Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, Germany. It was broadcast on second of december...
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