December 23, 2017

Ghulam Husain Khan and Munir Khan: Jugalbandi - Duets for Sitar and Sarangi [Decca DL 75100] recorded in India and released as an LP in the US in 1968 (repost)

[Here we have a repost of an album which I had posted about a year ago. There was a serious issue with side 2 and I had promised to repair it and repost. If you have downloaded that previous version, I suggest you delete it and replace with this one. My apologies.]

A year or so ago ago I uploaded an LP by sitarist Ghulam Husain Khan on the French record label Disques Vogue. Because only scant biographical data is available in that post, I have included the note below. It gives an excellent character study, but fails to mention that he was a cousin of Vilayat Khan.

Also, a nice biographical sketch is provided in the liner notes of this record by the well-known ethnomusicologist James Rubin.

This LP is an album of duets with sarangi player Munir Khan and was recorded in Indore, India in 1968 by the Pan Orient Arts Foundation. Khan plays beautifully on this recording.

The sarangi is certainly one of the most evocative of the stringed instruments. Although it does not usually look like much, the many sympathetic strings lend it a dignity and power of expression that is simply not present for western bowed string instruments such as violin or cello.

Tabla is performed by Suleiman Khan
Tanpura by Usman Khan










I recently ran across an interesting article about Ghulam Husain Khan which one of his students had reproduced on his website. I encourage everyone to visit the site. I encourage any friends, family or past students of Patric Marks to unearth any previously unreleased recordings of his guru and make them available in high quality audio files (I volunteer to assist in the mastering!).

Here I reproduce the entire article:

'Ustad Ghulam Husain Khan was born in Indore in 1927. Since his father died shortly after his birth, he took his musical training from his elder brother, 'Usman Khan. He began by playing the bin, but gradually realized that in the changing musical climate of India the sitar held a more promising future, and he eventually concentrated on the latter instrument in his lessons with his brother. As a general rule when he was young, he mischievously neglected his practice for typical childhood preoccupations (kite-flying, bicycle-riding, and the like). Only after a program in which a cousin was highly praised for a fine performance on the sitar--while Ghulam Husain, wearing (as he vividly remembers) his customary short pants, was sent to fetch water for the guests did he feel a motivation, born of pangs of humiliation and envy, to begin practicing in earnest. 

With much riyaz and mahnat (practice and industriousness), he progressed rapidly,and was appointed a Court Musician at the age of eighteen or nineteen, shortly before Independence; after 1947 he accompanied his brother 'Usman to Bombay, where he quickly began to establish a reputation as an outstanding sitarist. He remained in Bombay after 'Usman Khan moved to Ahmedabad, and performed there very successfully until he was summoned to Ahmedabad by 'Usman, who was returning to Indore at the invitation of the Maharaja. Ghulam Husain was thus required to take over his elder brother's teaching responsibilities, and he reluctantly left Bombay for Ahmedabad.

He was clearly the best sitarist in that city, and he soon developed a considerable, if geographically limited, reputation. He was able to discontinue the classes he had taken over from his brother, and to earn a comfortable income from radio performance, local programs (both public and private), and the private instruction (in "tuitions") of a few wealthy devotees of Hindustani music. While not performing often in other parts of India outside Ahmedabad, he did make a European and American concert tour, sponsored by the Pan Orient Arts Foundation of Boston, in 1968, followed by a second European tour in 1973. His reputation in India has now spread beyond Ahmedabad, and he has performed on one long-playing record released in India and three other records issued abroad. 

To a great degree, Ghulam Husain Khan has adhered to the traditional principles of ustadi which have already been discussed: riyaz (practice) and mahnat (industriousness); the development of a distinctive style, arising out of traditional elements, in what he calls binkar baj (playing the sitar in the style of a binkar); the maintenance of mithas (musical sweetness) so treasured by 'Usman Khan as the hallmark of the instrumental style of Bande 'Ali Khan; a sense of dedicated khidmat (service) to the gharana; and a basic respect for sadagi (simplicity) in style of life. Moreover, his sense of the traditional instructional roles of the ustad is highly developed; he has not participated in the establishment of any music classes, as have many of his contemporaries, but remains dedicated to the principle of intensive individual instruction and has limited the number of his formally bound shagirds (disciples) to a few individuals who have clearly demonstrated their dedication and seriousness. 

While he has been creative in developing his own style of binkar baj and in developing, after several years' effort, a new rag (Priti-Hindoli)l it is rather in the larger social realm beyond pure music that Ghulam Husain Khan has expanded his role as an ustad. He has, one might say, become his own patron, and something of an entrepreneur, partly out of economic necessity, but also partly out of a sense of khidmat to music and to the gharana. In one sense he has developed a philosophy of how to live the "artist's life"; in another he has defined for himself a role as a visibly productive and responsible citizen. In short, Ghulam Husain Khan has become the most accomplished musician of his generation in his immediate family, and the most renowned as an ustad. A discussion of the various aspects of his life--both musical and extra-musical will be of assistance in understanding the reasons for his renown. 

Ghulam Husain Khan has a strong sense of the importance of riyaz and mahnat for a musician, and he laments in a published interview that he, like other contemporary musicians, does not have as much time for practice as he would like: "Without patronage and respect, the musician cannot devote the whole of this time and self to the music. In the old days--even as recently as thirty years ago--it was not the same. His attitude toward practice, however, is refreshingly realistic, partaking hardly at all of the usual pious claims and pronouncements. While acknowledging that intense practice was essential in the formative stages of his career, he recognizes the equal importance of other elements as well: patience, obedience, industry, and intelligence are the qualities necessary to a good musician. Through learning the ragas by heart the power to play them comes. One becomes almost hypnotized by the discipline of practice, and this reveals the growth of the inner strength necessary for music.

In the development of his sitar style, Ghulam Husain ,as combined the bIn style learned from his elder brother with traditional elements of sitar performance in what he feels is a somewhat novel approach to sitar playing--bInkar baj --thoroughly grounded in precedent in each of the two individual instrumental styles. As already mentioned, 'Usman Khan identifies his bIn style, derived from that of Bande 'Ali Khan, as being distinguished by the introduction of a khaval sensibility and technique into the traditionally dhrupad-oriented style of the bin. 

Thus Ghulam Husain feels his music to have a strongly vocal quality for which he uses the phrase gayaki ang (used as well by some other musicians, notably Ustad Vilayat Khan) ; and he adds the further qualification that his performance includes elements of thumrI and dadra (forms of light classical music) as well. In the specific flavor of his playing, he, like 'Usman Khan, has tried to maintain the quality of mithas (musical sweetness) through the use of srutitI (microtonal variation), murki (a delicate quaver at the end of a note before a descent), and zamzama (a particular type of occasional tremolo.) His performances are enriched by his knowledge of a large number of old gats ( compositions), including many rare double gats (compositions, in the Raza KhanI or fast pattern, having two parts and lasting two-full-cycles of tIntal, the rhythmic cycle which has sixteen beats) from past ustads in the gharana.

Ghulam Husain Khan's sense of khidmat (service) to the gharana is clear. He has remained more concerned than his brothers about the fate of his musical tradition, and a conversation with him often reveals some hope or anxiety prompted by this concern. (This aspect of his ustadi will be treated in an elaboration of his educational philosophy, and in the section on the gharana itself). On the personal level, Ghulam Husain sent his firstborn son, Afzal Husain, to live with and be raised by 'Usman Khan, Who had no son of his own (it was only from a third marriage years later that 'Usman was to have two sons). In fact, out of a general deference toward and sympathy for his older brother (who very much wanted children of his own.), Ghulam Husain has had all his own children call Usman Khan Babba (roughly equivalent to the English papa), while he himself is addressed as bha'i miyan (respected brother). He also has a clear sense of social khidmat--to be discussed presently--as a citizen of his community in contemporary India. 

While not an ostentatiously pious man (he has a wry sense of humor and an engaging personal warmth) Ghulam Husain Khan does observe certain principles of sadagi. On almost all occasions he wears a plain white kurta and pa'ijama (loose, flowing shirt and pajama-like trousers) made of simple cotton, neatly pressed. He takes very seriously attendance of ceremonies at the tombs of saints (the roza of Shah 'AIam in Ahmedabad is a favorite visiting place for him), and he prays regularly before his performances. When he was congratulated by a few close friends after a particularly moving and successful debut performance in the United States, he shook his head with stark and genuine humility and said, "maih ne kuch nahin kiya khud ne sab kuch kiya" ("I did nothing--it was all done by God"); one had the distinct impression that he believed utterly that the music had flowed through him from a divine source.

But it is in his dedication to teaching that Ghulam Husain Khan has shown some of the most dominant aspects of his ustadI. The importance of posterity in the maintenance of a gharana is evident to him, and for this reason, with a sense of khidmat to the gharana, he has taken the process of teaching very seriously. A distinction has already been made between an ustad's attitude toward uncommitted students and serious disciples. Casual students he treats casually, but his few shagirds (he has taken perhaps eight such disciples, exclusive of his sons, in thirty years of teaching) are the recipients of his utmost dedication. In the interview from which he has previously been quoted, he describes his view of the relationship between ustad and shagird: 

The ustad gives his pupil the maximum personal attention possible. He spends from five to ten hours a day with him, until the disciple understands the mind as well as the movements of the teacher. The teaching of music is the creation of a complete understanding between the two. 

Sometimes the ustad disciplines his pupil to be certain that the disciple is serious. An American boy came to me several years ago, wanting to study the sitar. I was not sure of him so I called him at midnight, at five in the morning, in rain and sun, to test his discipline and patience. Finally I was satisfied and took him. Now he is like a son to me. Ghulam Husain Khan takes his obligations to his shagirds not only as a musical relationship, but as a spiritual and very personal one as well. Certain features of his preceptive philosophy are similar to those of the Sufl tariqa (path), in which the relationship between shaikh and murid often parallels that of ustad and shagird. The aspect or-trial and testing by the ustad shaikh has already been mentioned, as has the aspect of suhbat(literally, company, but in Sufism, spiritual conversation), in which ustad and shagird become well acquainted through extensive conversations and long periods of time spent in each other's company. 

Writing of the symbolic use of clothing in Sufism, Schimmel (1975:102) has observed that "by donning a garment that has been worn, or even touched, by the blessed hands of a master, the disciple acquires some of the baraka, the mystico-magical power of the sheikh." In numerous instances Ghulam Husain has followed this particular symbolism as well by presenting his male shagirds with both new clothes, particularly kurtas, and clothes which he himself has worn. This last custom in particular is typical of his generosity to his most trusted disciples.

In a more public context, as mentioned earlier, Ghulam Husain has become something of a musical entrepreneur. He has realized that with the loss of courtly patronage, it is difficult for a musician to survive with the degree of passivity that often results from an adequate monthly stipend; he has therefore developed in himself, quite against his ultimately shy and self-effacing nature, certain entrepreneurial capabilities that have borne significant results. In 1962, for example, he gained publicity, prestige, and merit as a citizen by arranging his own benefit program for the national defense fund instituted during the border dispute with China. 

He personally canvassed the city of Ahmedabad to sell tickets to the wealthier residents of the city, and when he was refused entry because of his modest appearance, he would gain audience with his patrons-to-be after passing with much good humor through the servants' entrance. "I am not a proud man," he would say, laughing; "this is the artist's life"--and then, "you must buy tickets to my program. It will be a good program, in a good cause." He sent a very substantial sum received from the concert to the fund, and is still remembered for this in Ahmedabad. 

Feeling, as many traditional ustads would not, this sense of public interest and duty, Ghulam Husain Khan has thus become something of a patron himself--dispensing, if not money, at least moral and tactical support. During his early days in Ahmedabad, when there was little musical activity in what was primarily the business-oriented center of an expanding textile industry, he was cofounder of "Alap," a music circle organized to bring visiting artists, to the city and thereby enrich its cultural life. He has also participated conscientiously in anniversary programs honoring the memory of two of the major figures in the modernization of Indian music education, V.D. Paluskar and V.N. Bhatkande; in this connection he received a special reception and award, presented by the Finance Minister of India, from the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal. a well-known modern music school. 

This last point suggests not so much that Ghulam Husain Khan participates in current trends in the modernization of classical music, as that he wants to acknowledge the fact that such trends exist. To remain informed on various musical developments, he subscribes to at least one musicological journal published in Hindi. In many respects, his reading of this journal has the same motivation as his reading of newspapers: diversion, with an intelligent interest in the events--musical or otherwise of the day. (While maintaining that very little of practical value can be learned from books on music, he does occasionally consult a nineteenth-century Urdu treatise on music, Sarmaya-e-'israt, (sadiq 'Ali Khan 1895) particularly regarding aspects of instrumental maintenance and repairs in which he takes a keen interest. His apparent trust of this book is possibly due to the fact that the author, Sadiq 'Ali Khan, has the same name as the father of Bande 'Ali Khan, the founder of Ghulam Husain's gharana, and may well be the same person.

In most respects, Ghulam Husain Khan approaches his public role as an ustad with a particular savor and witty nonchalance that characterizes what he calls "artist's life"--the life of an individual seen, as a Muslim musician, as being somewhat on the periphery of traditional Indian society no matter what the degree of art. When he lived in Bombay, Ghulam Husain moved in a polyglot community of painters, poets, 'and other musicians: he lived for a time in a flat on Malabar Hill where the famous Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz had recently lived, and which had a history of tenants arrested for offenses ranging from gambling to political terrorism. He still remembers those days and those individuals with pleasure. Yet, coming to Ahmedabad on his brother's instruction, he left the Bohemian life when he realized that it would ultimately be detrimental to his stature as a musician, and to the stature of the gharana, in the public eye; instead of squandering a growing income, he began to invest in the future through the cultivation of a distinct image and selective acquisition of property. 

Traditionally, Muslim musicians who, before independence, were associated with the courts of princely states, have tended in many respects to imitate the manners and pursuits of their patrons, the Hindu maharajas and the Muslim navabs: hunting, Epicurean dining, a fondness for elegant clothes, and a great pleasure in the adventure of travel. Ghulam Husain is very much of a gourmand, and for some years met regularly with a group of fiends, known as the Murghr (chicken) Club, who would take turns hosting meals In which no effort, and sometimes ( depending on the means of the host) no expense, was spared. 

During his four-month stay at the University of Chicago, Ghulam Husain cooked sumptuously for his numerous guests, and ate frequently in the city's different ethnic restaurants. Even today, he is fond of going, at five o'clock in the morning, for breakfast to the narrow, smoky, congested street in Ahmedabad known as bhathiyara gali, where bara handi ("twelve pots"--viscid and spice-ridden curries of all edible portions of the goat: brain, tounge, heart, liver, tripe, lung, trotters, and all the usual cuts) is served by the light of kerosene lamps to a motley of dozing Muslim laborers and idlers, and the occasional ustad. Traveling, too, is diverting for Ghulam Husain, who can be an enthusiastic tourist, particularly when he is abroad, unlike some Indian musicians who have difficulty in foreign cultures. As already mentioned, his ordinary dress is simple, though conspicuously long and flowing in its cut, typical of ustads; his taste for clothes worn in performance--still a courtly occasion for him--tend toward pale but expensive raw-silk kurtas and elegantly embroidered Kashmiri woolen shawls, for he believes that if an ustad looks confident and successful, he will more likely be taken as such. 

In his own words, his dress is "a question of prestige" (prestij ka saval hai) , as are his watch--with its spectacular metallic blue face--and his automobile. His first automobile, purchased with painstakingly gathered funds in 1964, was most of the time under repair; but when it was running, it became famous in Ahmedabad as the lal pari (the red fairy). The vehicle bears description. Ancient and British--perhaps a vintage Austin or Morris-- it was a quaint, stylish two-seater convertible, painted a dark but highly visible crimson. Ghulam Husain always dove the car to tuitions, and often took his children ( three sons, two daughters) or friends for a conspicuous tour of the city. Ramshackle though the automobile was, the fact that it was driven by a musician was not lost upon Ghulam Husain' s friends and the public at large. Few professional musicians in India can afford automobiles, and it is probable that in 1964 no other musician in the state of Gujarat had a car of his own. Though he enjoyed. the notoriety of the lal pari for a time, Ghulam Husain sold the car when its mechanical difficulties became too troublesome, and he purchased a somewhat newer Indian-manufactured Fiat which, though still needing frequent repairs, was certainly more practical and dignified than its whimsical predecessor. But the point had been carefully made: even people who did not attend his concert" knew that Ghulam Husain Khan was a visibly successful Ustad 

This is not to say that Ghulam Husain makes ostentation a way of life. His modest flat in Ahmedabad consists of two rooms and a partitioned verandah; it is located behind a petrol station in the old part of the city, in a large fifty-year-old compound that includes ~ miscellany of families of extremely diverse religious, regional, and even national backgrounds. Nor has his return from his foreign tours significantly changed his style of life. It seems more a function of the passage of time than of self-conscious change that his wife no longer keeps rigid parda (the traditional Islamic veiling of women); that he recently obtained a telephone to facilitate communication with his students, disciples, and friends; that he occasionally wears suits (as he did be: his tours) to social occasions; and that he now eats at small metal table with one or two of his children (though when guests come to his home, tea and dinner are still served on the traditional dastarkhwan spread on the floor.) He remains in touch with most of his close friends of fifteen years ago, though he has made many new friends as well. In all these respects, his life as an ustad has seen not so much a radical alteration as an expansion and enrichment of the traditional roles."

from  Asian Music: A symposium on the ethnomusicology of culture change in Asia V11-2 1976


side 1:
Raga Bhairavi alap with gat in drut teentaal

side2:
Raga Bihag - alap
Raga Shankar - gat in drut teentaal

Here is a youtube audio recording of Munir Khan performing Raga Desh




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December 16, 2017

Kishori Amonkar: Malhar Malika [STCS 65033/36] a 4-cassette box set recorded and released in India in 1994

This is a cassette box set recorded by Kishori Armonkar (10 April 1931 – 3 April 2017) in 1994.

The concept of the set is that she sings ragas that are in the family of Malhar -- hence the title. There were a lot of 4-cassette box sets released by HMV in the late 1980-early 1990s; this is the only one that I know of which was not just recycled material, but instead is all-newly recorded music. I'm sure there were others which were newly recorded; I just don't own them.







Kishori Armonkar: vocal
Appa Jalgaonkar: harmonium
Balkrishna Iyer: tabla
Raghunandan Panshikar: harp
Nandini Panshikar and Mahu Joshi: Tanpura

Track list:
01 Raga Gaud Malhar (45:16)
02 Raga Nat Malhar (44:02)
03 Raga Meera Malhar (38:11)
04 Raga Soor Malhar (19:44)
05 Raga Anand Malhar (32:10)
06 Raga Adana Malhar (23:06)

Total time: 202:29 (or 3 hrs 22 min 29 sec)


Equipment used in this transfer:
Cassette Deck: Teac W890R (azimuth was carefully adjusted for each side)
Preamp: Parasound PHP 850
Recorder: Sony PCM-M10 at 16/44 resolution
Software: Audacity and xAct



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December 12, 2017

Niaz Ahmed Khan and Fayyaz Ahmed Khan: Raga Yaman [Odeon MOCE 1058] an LP recorded in 1963 and reissued in 1967 in India

Here we have a really lovely and heartfelt example of singing from the Kirana Gharana. These two brothers were born in Jaipur. Fayyaz ji died in 1987; I can find little or no information on his younger brother Niaz Ahmed.

This is a beautifully sung and tastefully recorded LP, recorded in glorious monophonic sound in 1963. I'm beginning to prefer mono recordings of Hindustani Classical music, as it avoids the hard right/left stereo balance common in the 1970s-80s in India.







Niaz Ahmed Khan: vocal
Fayyaz Ahmed Khan: vocal
Mohammad Ahmed: tabla

side 1:
Raga Yaman
a) alap
b) composition in slow Jhumra taal
c) composition in fast teentaal

Side 2:
Raga Bairagi-Bhairav
a) Alap
b) composition in slow Jhaptaal
c) composition in fast teentaal


Equipment used in transfer: 
Preparation: Ultrasonic cleaning for 20 minutes in pure clean water
Turntable:  Audio-technica AT-LP-1240
Cartridge: Audio-technica AT440 mlb
Pre-amplification: Vintage refurbished Pioneer SX-780.
Recorder: Sony PCM-M10 at 24bit/96kHz resolution
Software: AudacityClickRepairand xAct


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December 11, 2017

(REPOST) Debabrata Chaudhuri: Meditations in Indian Sitar Music [SMFP 2101], an LP recorded and released in England in 1968

This particular transfer fell off the zippy share file service (due to a 30-day period of time where no-one downloaded it) and there were several anonymous people requesting a re-upload.

I remastered the original digital transfer, using very gentle setting on "Click Repair. The result should be worth re-downloading and eliminating your old files.


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Debu Chaudhuri was last seen in this blog with his second LP issued in the West. This, I believe, is his first LP to be released in the West, on the EMI budget label called "Music for Pleasure." Unlike a lot of MFP albums, this seems to be an original production and not a reissue.


There was definitely a craze going on in 1966 and 1967 for the sitar, especially given the attentions brought to it by groups like the Beatles and (less famously) the Rolling Stones.

Tabla on the LP is by Faiyaz Khan.

side 1: Raga Maru Behag

side 2: Raga Ahir Bhairav










Equipment used in transfer: 
Preparation: Ultrasonic cleaning for 20 minutes in water, followed by a  quick vacuum drying with a VPI 16.5 cleaning machine
Turntable:  Audio-technica AT-LP-1240
Cartridge: Shure M97x
Pre-amplification: Vintage refurbished Pioneer SX-780.
Recorder: Edirol R-09HR at 24bit/44.1kHz resolution
Software: Audacity, ClickRepair, and xAct



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December 10, 2017

Gayathri Rajapur: Raga du Sud de L'Inde [Le Chante du Monde FMX 58854] an LP recorded in the US in 1963 and released in 1967; then reissued in France in 1975

Here is album of vocal and Gottuvuadyam (also known as chitravina) music by Gayathri Rajapur

Originally it was released by Folkways Records in the US in 1967 and subsequently released in France under the "Le Chant du Mode" label. 

This LP is never going to wind up on anyone's "Audiophile Must Have" list. It was recorded in late 1963 (according to the original liner notes) under what appears to be a non-studio environment and is almost certainly (at least in this release) in mono. This transfer, however, sounds much better than what is available on the web and on youtube. If you have any doubt about this, then please check out the upload provided on youtube by the label.

Of some note is the presence of Dorothy Moskowitz on tanpura. Moskowitz was Rajapur's student at UCLA, and had a singing career in her own right, appearing (among other places) on an underground classic of experimental rock

Somewhere on the inter webs I located a PDF file of the original (surprisingly good) liner notes which were written for the US Folkways label by Joseph Byrd, who was Moskowitz' boyfriend at the time (see below).












Gayathri Rajapur: vocal and gottuvuadyam
Harihar Rao: mridigam


Side 1:
Varna in Raga Shankaraburanam
Kriti in Raga Bhairavi

Side 2:
Kriti in Raga Nathe
Ragamalica

Equipment used in transfer: 
Preparation: Ultrasonic cleaning for 20 minutes in pure clean water
Turntable:  Audio-technica AT-LP-1240
Cartridge: Audio-technica AT440
Pre-amplification: Vintage refurbished Pioneer SX-780.
Recorder: Sony PCM-M10 at 24bit/96kHz resolution
Software: AudacityClickRepairand xAct


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December 9, 2017

Hariprasad Chaurasia: live recording broadcast on French radio in 2005

Here is a recording from a broadcast in 2005 by French radio of two pieces by Hari ji. Unfortunately, the second piece is missing the ending because of problems experienced by the original recorder (as described below). Unfortunately, this is all we have of this concert.

This set was broadcast as part of a concert which also featured Girija Devi (which was recently posted here).


Hariprasad Chaurasia: bansuri
Sunil Avchat: bansuri
Vijay Ghate: tabla
Bhavani Shankar: pakhawaj
Julia Horman: tanpura







The original info file as I received it is as follows:

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Hariprasad Chaurasia: bansuri 
live at Theatre de la Ville 
Paris, France.
September 18, 2005
2005-09-18

France Musique FM broadcast
December 06, 2005
2005-12-06 recording and 2005 seed by museum64

November 2017 reseed:
Sector-boundary errors, 
dropouts and a few clicks repaired
and volume adjustments made;
originally seeded with a full set by Gijira Devi;
reseeded separately.  

Morning Ragas from Northern India

52:38 minutes 

tracklist:

01 unknown title 34:40
02 unknown title 17:55

Hariprasad Chaurasia: bansuri (wooden flute) 
Sunil Avchat: bansuri 
Vijay Ghate: tabla
Bhavani Shankar: pakhawaj or flute
Julia Horman: tampura
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info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hariprasad_Chaurasia 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bansuri 

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original taper's notes:
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* a few flaws here and there . 
* The stream felt down at cd2 track2 because of a phone call (?) 
so it's not the complete broadcast (about 4-5 mn missed).
* A better and complete recording will be welcome.
* don't take a freebox for tv/radio unless you live in a phone central.

Source : FM
Adsl Freebox Modem > Coaxial cable > MD Recorder > 
Analog cable > SBLive! > HDD > WAV to FLAC
recorded and uploaded by museum64:) ENJOY !!!

more details in french here >>> 
http://www.theatredelaville-paris.com/telecharger/brochure.pdf

reseed:

Sector-boundary errors, 
dropouts and a few clicks repaired with volume adjustments;  
new FLAC-8 files and checksum files created 
and this info file revised; original info file included.

Thanks again to museum64 for this recording.

a zootype reseed November 2017

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