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Akmalxon (1905-1987) va Boboxon (1900-1980) - Sufixonovlar (So'fixonovlar) -...
In Uzbekistan quite some years ago MP3-CDs by the great singers of mid last century had been published. These recordings probably have been released originally on LPs by Melodiya, the Sowjet...
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Berta Davidova (1922-2007) - Legendary Shashmaqom Singer - MP3-CD from...
Next in our series of Uzbek MP3-CDs, which our friend Danny brought years ago from Uzbekistan, we present one by Berta Davidova, the great singer of the Shashmaqam of Bukhara. She was one of the main...
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Vinayakrao Patwardhan (22 July 1898 – 23 August 1975) - 40th anniversary of...
Today is the 40th anniversary of the death of the great singer of the Gwalior Gharana, Pandit Vinayakrao Patwardhan (22 July 1898 – 23 August 1975). We take this opportunity to remind of this almost...
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Vinayakrao Patwardhan (22 July 1898 – 23 August 1975) - 40th anniversary of...
Here two other beautiful recordings by the great master. CD 1 - flacCD 2 - flacCD 1 - mp3CD 2 - mp3Many thanks to KF for the recordings and the nice booklet.
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Orif Alimakhsumov - So'lim - MP3-CD from Uzbekistan
Here the next MP3-CD from Uzbekistan. This time we present Orif Alimakhsumov (also transcribed as Orif Alimaxsumov), another well-known Shashmaqam singer. He was one of the singers in the legendary...
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Sabri Moudallal (1918-2006) - Qudud wa Muwashahat - MP3-CD from Syria
The media are full of the unbelievable human catastrophe taking place in Syria since years and getting worse and worse. What a desaster, what a horror! Amid all this desaster we hardly know anything...
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Adib Dayikh (1938 - 2001) - Sa'altak Ya Jabbar - Cassette from Syria
Here one of the many cassettes by the great singer from Aleppo. This one has quite good sound quality, though there are some disturbences occasionally. We saw him live at WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk)...
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Salamat Hussain - The Enchanting Notes of Flute - Asghar Records PIKA-37 - LP...
Here as promised to my blogger colleague Richard the only LP I have from this "mysterous" Pakistani label based in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. I bought this LP in the early 1980s in Southall near...
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Rasulxon (Rasul Qori) Mamadaliev (1928-1976) - MP3-CD from Uzbekistan
Here the fourth post in our series of MP3-CDs of great singers of the Maqam traditions of Uzbekistan, published years ago in Uzbekistan and brought by our friend Danny from a trip to Uzbekistan. This...
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Turgun Alimatov (1922-2008) & Abror Zufarov - Ustoz va Ustazoda - MP3-CD from...
Here we present the next in our series of MP3-CDs which our dear friend Danny brought a couple of years ago from Uzbekistan. This time an instrumental album by the greatest Uzbek instrumentalist of the...
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Habil Aliyev (28 May 1927 – 8 September 2015) - In his memory: LP "Kemancha"...
We only received recently the sad news that Habil Aliyev, the great Kemencheh master from Azerbaijan, past away on september 8th. Here we offer in his memory a LP we bought at a memorable concert in...
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Al-Munshid Tawfiq Al-Munajjid - Tafârîd - CD from Syria
We continue here our series of recordings from Syria which our dear friend Danny brought years ago from a trip to Syria. The next couple of recordings will be of Sufi music by some famous Munshidin and...
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Sharan Rani (1929-2008) - The Great Sarod Virtuoso - LP published 1967 in India
Here an early LP by the great Sharan Rani, a disciple of Ustad Allauddin Khan and his son Ali Akbar Khan.For more infos...
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Ustad Halim Jaffar Khan - His first LP published in 1962 in India
Here the very first, very brilliant LP by Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, the 9th LP (plus a double cassette) by the great artist we posted here. As far as I know only one LP, ECSD 2432 from 1969, is missing...
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Orifxon Xatamov - MP3-CD from Uzbekistan by the great Maqom master
Orifxon Xatamov (born 1924 or 1925) - his name is given sometimes also as Orif or Arif Xatamov, and both versions can appaer in different spellings - belongs to the Maqom tradition of the Ferghana...
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Yeshwantrai Purohit (1916-1964) - Ragas Malkauns & Sohini - LP published in...
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...
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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.Download flacDownload mp3
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Vilayat Khan (1928-2004) (Sitar) & Imrat Khan (Surbahar) - The Great Heritage...
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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...
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