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273 posts panchamkauns 273 posts
panchamkauns
ragamala wrote:
See http://www.ragascape.com/

This has a number of performances, many of around 28 mins, presumably to fit into a half-hour radio format. Most came originally I think from AIR, when they used to share music online.
Wow, wow, wow! This is superb; even a lumpen Bhoopali turns unearthly in his left hand!
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Fuller recordings of Mustaq Ali Khan I have are a 53 minute Bageshri, from radio, and a superb 57 minute Miyan ki Malhar from AIR in the early 50s.
Reassuring to hear such recordings are at least out there. Some day I am going to have them too.

Thanks!
We are 3
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Kanti Dattani 213 posts
Kanti Dattani
I have this CD by Partho Das, Details are

JVC VICG5222, Music of the Sitar, recorded at Delhi in 1989
Bageshri 30.34, Yaman 28.36 and Bhairavi 8.30
Good sitar playing butbut not an outstanding recording, particularly of tabla.
Since this CD was released by a Japanese company it was quite unreasonably expensive. To gain popularity and national and international acceptance the new artistes would benefit if they find an Indian recording company, with good recording equipment and engineers, to produce their very best music at affordable prices. Partho does not seem to have released any other CDs since 1989. I wonder why?

I have CDs by several pomising sitar players who have released just one or two CDs and then disappered!

Kanti Dattani
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Kanti Dattani 213 posts
Kanti Dattani
Hi IML,

I don't have any CD by Indrajit Banerjee. Read his profile, quite impressive. Please supply details of his CDs. I can ask a local music store to order a few copies for sell in his outlet. This way I get an opportunity to listen first in his shop before I buy. Thanks.

Kanti Dattani
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IML 43 posts
IML
Kanti wrote:
Hi IML,

I don't have any CD by Indrajit Banerjee. Read his profile, quite impressive. Please supply details of his CDs. I can ask a local music store to order a few copies for sell in his outlet. This way I get an opportunity to listen first in his shop before I buy. Thanks.

Kanti Dattani
Hello Kanti Dattani

I'd have to call on my old sitar friend who would have an up-to-date details list on Indrajit's cds, I think there's 4 or 5 now...........
(this is where i need larsji)
Indrajit is one of the best (imo)

Maybe Bharat can help us out here?

thanks
IML 8)
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ghozm 4 posts
ghozm
i must say one of the sitar artist i know of is pt. shivnath mishra from the benares gharana. he has released three jugalbandhi cd together with his son and student deobrat mishra. together they are truely amazing.
they have a website: http://music-of-benares.com. i think they distribute their own cds them selves..
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Kanti Dattani 213 posts
Kanti Dattani
Hi ghozm, thanks for the info. Have just them an email asking them to supply full details of each CD, including details of ragas, duration and the cost of 4 CDs including postage to UK. Have you got all these four CDs? Where did you buy them from? How much did you pay? How do you rate the music and the recording quality?

Kanti Dattani
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ghozm 4 posts
ghozm
i bhought the cds from them directly. they have house concerts a couple times a month. i dont remember what i payed. somewhere between 100 and 150 rupees for each cd. not much. i have three of those cd's..

when it comes to rating cds i rate them from energy within the music. emotion and rasa. and theese guys have alot of it. the recordings are good quality also. i think it is deobrat (the son) who is arranging all the technical stuff. he is a smart guy.
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IML 43 posts
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ghozm wrote:
i must say one of the sitar artist i know of is pt. shivnath mishra from the benares gharana. he has released three jugalbandhi cd together with his son and student deobrat mishra. together they are truely amazing.
they have a website: http://music-of-benares.com. i think they distribute their own cds them selves..
one of my favorites is their Raag Desh which i have
a good listen

IML 8)
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ghozm 4 posts
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IML wrote:
one of my favorites is their Raag Desh which i have
a good listen
funny, it is one of my favourites too!
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IML 43 posts
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ghozm wrote:
IML wrote:
one of my favorites is their Raag Desh which i have
a good listen
funny, it is one of my favourites too!
I saw them once back in 2004 at this really great bookstore in the Seattle area
it was my only indian concert so far
it couldn't have possibly been any better
I admire the Mishras a great deal

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trippy monkey 4,281 posts
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I videod them both in a surbahar duet at the mid-march Dhrupad Festival in Varanasi.

' Rock'n'Roll' surbahar it was called by a local afficienado due to Deobrata's constant clashing on the tarafs & rather stacatto playing. I felt his 'style' more suited to sitar rather than this gorgeous 'beast'.

His father has a very nice touch on surbahar although I haven't heard them both on sitar yet.
On my next visit to Varanasi in 2007.
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Nick
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IML 43 posts
IML
Only place to get Indrajit's CD's is Sitars, Etc.
Their site has the videos and complete Raag Jog there
scroll down to the recordings:

http://www.sitarsetc.com/Books.htm

http://www.indrajitbanerjee.com/

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David Parfitt Junior Member 22 posts
David Parfitt
Is anyone else familiar with Jay Kishor?

http://magnatune.com/artists/jay_kishor
http://www.oud.eclipse.co.uk
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daz199 431 posts
daz199
IML wrote:
ghozm wrote:
funny, it is one of my favourites too!
I saw them once back in 2004 at this really great bookstore in the Seattle area
it was my only indian concert so far
it couldn't have possibly been any better
I admire the Mishras a great deal

IML 8)
tune it, play it, love it

the mishras are awesome, best live show i've seen (along with zakir...)
so much energy flowing...it was unreal

they even gave me a lesson the day after the show, theyre really nice people



as far as modern sitarists, i'd recommend Niladri Kumar
he has a cd out with kaushi kanada on it...i've never heard anyone do meends like him, the alap is incredible
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kalpitpandya 4 posts
kalpitpandya
Hello everyone,

I think Niladhri Kumar should be inculded in this category, have seen him live and have couple of videos. He has 2-3 CD's out.

Dharohar - bilaskhani, pilu and bhairavi is decent
Another one included Kausi kanada with vijay ghate.


kalpitpandya.
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Kanti Dattani 213 posts
Kanti Dattani
Hi Kalpit.

I have the following Sitar CDs with the three ragas, Bilaskhani Todi, Pilu and Kaunsi Kanada, that you have mentioned in your posting.

BILASKHANI TODI
Balaram Pathak 22 minutes C558672
Imrat Khan 25 NI5153
Nikhil Banerjee 51 RAGA216AB
Niladhri Kumar 30 TDICL037C
Shahid Parvez 31 S500014
Shalil Shankar 21 ARCD2029
Shujaat Khan 67 IAM1046

My favourites are the recordings by NB (best), SP, SK and IK

PILU
Budhaditya Mukherjee 21 RCD2224
Debu Chowdhury 8 IAM1055
Imrat Khan/Wajahat Khan 27 NI5195
Nikhil Banerjee 55 ARCD2005
Nishat Khan 16 PSLP5246
Shahid Parvez 12 BIS32 & 38 SWM021
Shubhendra Rao/Partho Sarothy 24 CDNF150158
Shujaat Khan 13 IAM1029
Vikas Gupta 32 SWM068
Vilayat Khan 10 A95001B

My favourites are the recordings by NB (best), SP (best - the SWM cd), LK/WK,

KAUNSI KANADA
Niladri Kumar 62 NR141
Ravi Shankar 21 A91003
Shivu Taralagatti sitar 22 822882
Subroto Roy Chowdhury 44 jp1022

I have no favourites, but I think the versions by ST and SRC are better than that by NK

Kanti Dattani
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