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Ustad Mohammad Omar (1905–1980) - Rubab - Cassette from Afghanistan
Here we present an Afghani cassette by the great Rubab master Ustad Mohammad Omar, which we recently received from our very generous friend KF as a gift. This cassette served as the basis for the CD...
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Ustad Mohammad Omar - Rubab Master from Afghanistan - Recordings from the...
Here we present a number of beautiful recordings of the great Master of the Afghan Rubab, Ustad Mohammad Omar. I received these recordings from my friend KF. Originally these recordings are from the...
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Annapurna Devi (1927-2018) passed away yesterday - May she rest in Peace
Yesterday one of India's greatest musicians passed away. Annapurna Devi was the daughter of Baba Ustad Allauddin Khan, sister of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and first wife of Pandit Ravi Shankar.She was an...
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Ustad Muhammad Hussain Sarahang (1924-1983) - Legendary Classical Singer from...
Here a beautiful LP by the great Ustad Sarahang. Ustad Muhammad Hussain Sarahang was a legendary, very charismatic classical singer of the Patiala Gharana from Kabul, Afghanistan. He sang Khyal, but...
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Ustad Mohammad Hussain Khan - Sar-Auhang (Sarahang) - LP released in India in...
Here a wonderful LP by the great singer, recorded in India. At a recent visit to our friend KF we scanned the covers of the LP he has in his collection. The rips he made already years ago. Many thanks...
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Ustad Sarahang - Live in Kabul 1978
Here a very beautiful concert recording by Ustad Sarahang containing:Raga Malkauns (incomplete) (25:54)Raga Todi (46:30)We received these recordings from our friend Werner Durand. Many thanks to him.It...
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Nikhil Banerjee - Le Sitar du Pandit Nikhil Banerjee - Raga Jogiya-Kalingada...
With the last three posts by Ustad Sarahang we arrived back to Raga Music, though from Afghanistan. Now we will post for a longer period classical Indian music. First we start with some LPs and...
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Mohammad Sharif Khan Poonchwalay - Sitar - Vol. 3 - Cassette released in...
Mohammad Sharif Khan Poonchwalay was one of the greatest Sitar players of his generation. We posted in the past already six recordings by the artist. Unfortunately I have only the vol. 3 of this series...
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Vilayat Khan - Sandhi Prakash - Raga Purvi - Cassette released in India in 1991
Here a very beautiful, but little known recording by the exquisite Ustad Vilayat Khan. As far as I know the recording was only once rereleased on CD: on CD 2 of a compilation box of three CDs called...
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Vilayat Khan - Sitar Samrat - Raga Gawoti - Cassette released in India in 1986
Here another very beautiful cassette by Ustad Vilayat Khan. Only the second side was republished on a compilation CD: Aftaab-e-Sitar (1988).flacmp3
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Vilayat Khan - Monumental Music of Sitar Nawaz Ustad Vilayat Khan assisted by...
Here a quite rare cassette by Ustad Vilayat Khan, together with his son Shujaat Khan on Surbahar. It was never republished on CD. There exists another recording of the same Raga by both artists, done...
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Shujaat Khan - Sitar - The New Star on the Musical Horizon - LP released in...
This is - as far as I know - the very first release by Shujaat Khan, the very able son of Ustad Vilayat Khan. He was then just 18 or 19 years old.flacmp3
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Budhaditya Mukherjee - Sitar Wizard - LP released in India in 1978
Here a wonderful and quite rare LP by the brilliant Budhaditya Mukherjee. Until recently it was missing in my collection. I even didn't know of its existence till a couple of years ago. It is the...
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Budhaditya Mukherjee - Raga Ahir Bhairav & Raga Puriya - LP released in India...
Here the artist's first album on The Gramophone Company of India. One can hear here the artist's proximity to Ustad Vilayat Khan. He plays in Raga Puriya the same composition as Vilayat Khan did on an...
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Ahmed Hussain Khan - Sitar - LP released in India in 1980
Here a rare LP by a brilliant, but little known Sitar master. The Mian Achpal Gharana he belongs to seems to be a branch of the Qawwal Bachchon ka Gharana and the Delhi Gharana. Mian Achpal was a...
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Ghulam Husain Khan - Sitar Nawaz - LP released in India in 1974
Here a rare LP by a brilliant Sitar master, who was quite well known in the West through his LP released in France in 1968 which we had posted in 2013. See there for more information on the artist.He...
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Abdul Halim Jaffar Khan - Cassette released in India in 1988
This is the 12th release by the artist on our blog.flacmp3
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Bimal Mukherjee - The Ecstasy of Sitar - The Brilliance of Senia Baaz (Baaj)...
Bimal Mukherjee (1930-1996) was a great Sitar player of the Senia Gharana. He was a student of the Beenkar (Rudra Veena player) and Dhrupad singer Ustad Abid Hussain Khan (see our post), representative...
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