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G. S. Sachdev (Gurbachan Singh Sachdev) (1935-2018) passed away - In his...
This morning I received the sad news that G.S. Sachdev has passed away from my dear blogger friend Richard at: Flat, Black and Classical: Indian Classical Music on Vinyl and Cassette. May he rest in...
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Dear music lovers, it slowly dawned on me only two days ago that the comments function doesn't work anymore since over a month. First I thought that I don't receive any comments because the music I...
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Madjid Kiani - Santour - Radif - LP released in 1977 in France
Now we continue with our Iran series. There will be two more posts after this one. Then there will be three posts by the outstanding Kemencheh master Habil Aliyev from Azerbaijan. Then a Ney cassette...
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Daryoush Tala'i - Le Tar - Tradition classique de l'Iran - LP released in...
After the wonderful LP by Dariush Tala'i on Ocora now the one on Harmonia Mundi released one year later. Here his name is transcibed as Daryoush Tala'i. With accompanyment by the great Zarb (Tonbak or...
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Dariush Tala'i & Djamchid Chemirani - Le Son direct du Concert IRAN du 11 mai...
Just received two days ago from my very dear friend Werner Durand a rip of this rare set of two cassettes. I had completely forgotten, that it existed. I had it in my hands in a private house in Paris...
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Yusef Forutan (1891-1979) - Setar - Recordings which appeared by accident on...
Yusef Forutan was one of the handful of outstanding, incomparable masters of authentic Iranian music in mid 20th century. Amongst instrumentalists there were only two or three others of the same...
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Ostad Bahari (Ali Asghar Bahari) - Kamancheh - Cassette released in the US in...
Here we present a cassette by the great Kemencheh (Kamancheh) master Ostad Ali Asghar Bahari (1905-1995). Though he cooperated with many of the so-called radio artists, also called Motrebi...
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Habil Aliyev (1927-2015) - Kemencheh from Azerbaijan - Bayat-e Shiraz, Dogah...
Here a beautiful cassette by the great Habil Aliyev, perhaps the greatest Kemenche master of the 20th century. I still remember vividly the moment, in the 1970s, when I first really became aware of the...
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Habil Aliyev (1927-2015) - Kemencheh from Azerbaijan - Folk Tunes - Cassette...
Here another cassette by Habil Aliyev. This one has folk tunes and at the end some imitations of animals. He is accompanied here by the Iranian musician Arjang Kamkar on Tombak. Perhaps someone can...
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Habil Aliyev (1927-2015) - Playing of Habil Aliyev - Zabul Tesnifi, Çargah...
Here a wonderful LP by the great master, accompanied on Balaban, a double-reed wind instrument similar to the Armenian Duduk, which has here the function to provide a drone, played by Niami...
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Ashiq Edalat Nasibov - Great Master (Ostad) of the Saz of Azerbaijan - Majlis...
We just received from our dear friend Werner Durand the rip of a cassette by Edalat Nasibov, the outstanding master (Ostad) of the Saz of Azerbaijan. Edalat Nasibov is probably the greatest master of...
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Ashiq Edalat Nasibov - Anonymous Cassette from the 1980s
Here another, even more fantastic recording by Edalat Nasibov. This is the rip of a cassette, which our friend Werner Durand copied in the 1980s from the collection of his Ney teacher.Many thanks to...
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Ashug (Ashiq) Yunis Hasanov - Folk Songs of Azerbaijan - LP released in...
Here we present - for comparison with our two earlier posts of Edalat Nasibov - a traditional Ashiq from Azerbaijan, accompanying himself on Saz. Normally the texts are in Ashiq music, as in these...
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M. Sadreddin Özçimi - Ney Taksimleri - Cassette released in Turkey
Here we present a beautiful cassette of Taqsims (improvisations) on the Turkish Ney by Sadreddin Özçimi, the greatest Ney master (Neyzen) of his generation. He is in the tradition of Ney masters of the...
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Sadreddin Özçimi - Ney Taksimleri - Cassette released in Turkey in 1980s or...
Here another beautiful cassette by the great Neyzen (Ney master). Accompanied in the metrical parts by a Bendir.flacmp3
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Tanburi Abdi Coşkun - Tanbur Taksimleri - Cassette released in Turkey in the...
Here we present excellent recordings by the great Tanbur player Abdi Coşkun. Unfortunately one doesn't find much information on him in the internet except that he was born in 1941 and that he was a...
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Traditional Music Of The Tajik People - Anthology: Musical Art of the Peoples...
Here we present an interesting double LP of Tajik music. It contains on the first two sides religious and folk music. In most cases I know too little of the music to say what kind of genre it is.On...
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Tajikistan - Davlatmand (Daulatmand) Kholov & Ensemble - Cassettes 4 & 5 out...
Here we post two cassettes devoted to Tajikistan out of a box of six cassettes. This box was published by the same organization as the series of 18 albums "Local Iranian Music", each containing six...
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Pamirian Tunes - Music from Badakhshan, Tajikistan - Double LP released in...
Here we present an unfortunately incomplete rip of a double LP with music from Badakhshan in the Pamir mountains. Our friend Werner Durand discovered this double LP around 2000 in the collection of...
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Shashmaqam - A private CD from Tajikistan
Academy of Shashmaqam, Dushambe. From left to right you see here the three instruments: Dutar, Sato, Tanbur and behind the Doira.Here a private CD of Shashmaqam from Tajikistan. My dear friend Danny...
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