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Satya Kinkar Bandyopadhyay (1899-1980) - Sangeetacharya - LP published in...
Satya Kinkar Bandyopadhyay was the last complete master of the Vishnupur Gharana, being a master of Dhrupad, Khyal, Tappa, Surbahar, Sitar and Esraj. After him no other musician covered all these...
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Ashesh Bandopadhyaya (1920-1992) - Esraj - Cassette published in India in 1986
Here another great master of the Vishnupur Gharana, this time a master of the Esraj.This is a transfer of a cassette to CD which a friend in Paris did for me more than 10 years ago. Many thanks to...
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Rambod Sodeyf (رامبد صدیف) (born 1939) & Majid Kiani - Tarji'band: Dastgah-e...
Rambod Sodeyf is one of the three greatest singers in Iran in the last 50 years, the other two being Mohammad Reza Shajarian (born 1940) and Hatam Asgari Farahani (born 1933). None of the other Iranian...
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Rambod Sodeyf (رامبد صدیف) (born 1939) - Concert in Cologne on 3rd of April...
Here the second recording by the great master of Avaz (see the preceding post).wavemp3Many thanks to KF for the recording and creating the covers.
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Flutes Orientales Sacrées des Derviches Tourneurs - LP published in 1971 in...
Here a LP of music of the Whirling Dervishes which was wide spread in the 1970s and which sticks out by the participation of two outstanding musicians: the Ney player Hayri Tümer and the singer Münir...
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Akagündüz Kutbay (1934-1979) - Mevlana - Instrumental Dervish Music - LP...
wavemp3About the artist see: Wikipedia and FacebookIn 2009 Kalan released a wonderful set of two CDs in a small book:Aka Gündüz Kutbay (1934-1979) – Ask – 30 yilin özlemiyle…, Book (English text...
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Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (1935-2017), the great singer of the Patiala Gharana,...
Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, the legendary and very charismatic singer of the Patiala Gharana and grandson of one of the two founders of the Gharana, passed away on the 4th of january 2017. Sometimes he was...
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The great Sitar player Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (1927-2017) passed away...
Another great musician passed away on the 4th of january 2017, one of whom I was particularly fond: Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (1927-2017). See on him:...
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Indian Talas - Nikhil Ghosh (1918-1995) & Raja Chattrapati Singh (1919-1998)...
Here a rather rare LP with the great Tabla master Nikhil Ghosh (1918-1995) and his sons Nayan Ghosh (born 1956) (Tabla) and Dhruba Ghosh (born 1957) (Sarangi). In addition the LP has two tracks by the...
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Dhruba Ghosh - Soulful Sarangi - Cassette published in India in 1989
wavemp3On the artist see:http://www.dhrubaghosh.com/http://www.artindia.net/dhruba.html
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Dinkar Kaikini (1927-2010) - Raga Nand, Paraj & Bhajan - LP released in India...
Dinkar Kaikini was a well-known singer of the Agra Gharana. Here we present a beautiful LP from 1985. Dhruba Ghosh is providing Sarangi accompaniment. So we have here the third recording in a row...
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Lalmani Misra (1924-1979) - Nectar of the Moon - Vichitra Vina Music of...
We hesitated first to post this LP as the label had plans to republish it on CD. But this project seems to have died already years ago, probably because of lack of interest by the public. A very...
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Classical Music of North India - Duet of Sitar and Sarod - LP published in...
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...
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Classical Music of Iran - LP published in 1982 in Japan
Here the second Japanese LP from 1982, which we bought recently from Japan. See our previous post. Here we have a LP with very beautiful recordings by some of the greatest musicians and singers of...
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Munajat Yulchieva - Ey Dilbari Jononim - LP published in Soviet Uzbekistan in...
Munajat Yulchieva is outside of her country the best known traditional singer from Uzbekistan. She toured extensiveley worldwide. I saw her in concerts in Germany: Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne and in...
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Xozhixon Boltayev - Old Masters Of Arts, Vol. 25 - LP published in Soviet...
Here we present a LP by Xozhixon Boltayev (Xojixon Boltaev, Хожихон Болтаев), a great singer from Khiva, the old city in Khorezm in western Uzbekistan. The recordings were first published in...
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Jurakhan Sultanov (1893-1964) - Old Masters of Arts of Uzbekistan, Vol. 18 -...
Jurakhan Sultanov (Jura-Khon Sultanov, Джурахон Султанов) was considered the greatest voice in classical Maqom music in Uzbekistan in mid twentieth century. He had an extremely powerful and beautiful...
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Folk Music of Central Asia - West Turkistan - LP published in Japan in 1968
Here we present another LP from Japan which was never on the market in Europe or the US, but this time for license restriction reasons, as the recordings were licensed for sale in Japan only from the...
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Vilayat Khan - Ameer Khusrau - A Tribute by Ustad Vilayat Khan - LP published...
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...
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