Oriental Traditional music from LP's & K7 • New blog to keep an eye on!

Do you like some more Mallikarjun?

Well, I have some very good news to share with you! There is a new blog started by one of the frequent visitors to this blog and I can assure you that it will be worth your while following it. the first post right now in my blogroll is from that blog!

Pop over directly to this new blog and get your own copy of

Mallikarjun Mansur - Bahaduri Todi & Gaud Malhar - ECLP 2384 (1968)


What are you waiting for... the files are over there...

Don't forget to say thank you!

Just pop over there and enjoy, and good luck Tawfiq!

Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar • Gangeyabushan (1st take)

Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar  • Raga Mangeyabushan (sic!)
[i.e. Gangeyabushan] Recorded 1968 in Bombay by Bengt Berger.
Disques Alvarès (Productions Boîte à Musique) - LD 114 - P.1974







Side A

A1 Gangeyabushan 19'16

Side B

B1 Gangeyabushan 21'10


Here as one file without the interruption of a total lenght of 40'28!






Here is another record that has also been a very long time coming. I did not want to post it totally out of context and felt there had to be some more substance to this blog before I could posts such a profound piece here! I hope you understand. It was generously supplied a long time ago by a true and very good friend in music! This piece, that had been “cleaverly” cut up because of the LP format, have now been cleverly edited together as there was no interruption on the master tape. ;-)




I am pretty sure you will enjoy! I usually don't phrase myself in the negative, but if you don't like it go find another country than Luobaniya ...

Ustad Zia Mohiuddin on the roof terrace in Chembur 1968.

There is a noteworthy CD release with an alternate take of this piece on Amigo AMCD 906 • Gangeyabushan, and the reason for that is that is that Jacques Lévi-Alvarès [aka Jacques Lévy-Alvarès] the founder of BAM - Boîte à Musique / Disques Alvarès, never returned the masters! There are still a few copies left of this CD with the 2nd take, also recorded the same day. available from Country & Eastern, and at a very low price as well, less than a third of what a regular CD costs these days. If you are interested, do take a look here, before they are all gone...




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Musiques du Gabon - Recorded in 1967 by Michel Vuylsteke

Musiques du Gabon 
- Fang, Kota, Masango, Ndjabi, Obamba, Pounou, Pygmée
Recorded in 1967 by Michel Vuylsteke
Ocora - OCR 41 - P.1968



Side A

A1 Arc-en-bouche Masango
A2 Chant funèbre Masango
A3 Ensemble Fang avec xylophone
A4 Orchestre de xylophones Fang
A5 Chant épique avec mvet Fang


Side B

B1 Chant de marche Obamba
B2 Dance sur échasses Ndjabi
B3 Récit chanté Pounou
B4 Musique d'initiation Kota
B5 Chant avec harpe Pygmée
B6 Chœur de femmes avec tambour Pygmée

Here is another of the african Ocoras. I have little to add except that I like the music very much and that I highly recommend you to listen to it. Hope you enjoy!

Arc en bouche Moungongo 

Track A1

Harpe arquée Gonfi 

Track A2 

Xylophone Melane 

Track A3

Xylophone Endoume 

Track A4

Xylophone Nieng

Track A4

Xylophone Omvac 

Track A4

Xylophone Akourou 

Track A4

Xylophone Ololon

Track A4

Ensemble de Xylophones

Track A4

Harpe chitare Mvet

Track A5

Pluriarc Nsambi

Track B3

Harpe arquée Gonfi

Track B5

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Portrait of Andalusia - Rec. 1956 by Deben Bhattacharya

Portrait of Andalusia - The Living Tradition

Recordings 1956 by Deben Bhattacharya

Argo Record Co. - ZRG 560 - P.1968

A Street In Andalusia

The Roman Marchers In The Procession

The Cross Bearer In The Procession

Easter Procession In Puente Genil

A Close Up From The Procession

Penitents In Puente Genil

Side A

A1 Saetas et tambours assourdis 4'12

A2 Soleá 3'50

A3 Procéssion de Paques à l'église de la Macarena 8'34

A4 Serrana 4'04

Side B

B1 Cantiñas de Cadiz 3'46

B2 Soleá 3'15

B3 Alegrias de Cadiz 2'34

B4 Saeta mozarabe 1'03

B5 Improvisation à la guitare 8'44

B6 Soleá "Apolá" 3'01

Julian De Cordoba - (B2)

Juan Garcia (B6)

Accompanied by Jose Bedmar (A2,A4,B1,B2,B3,B6)

Antonio Fernandez (A2, B1, B3)

I really like this record very much and I think it is partially because I like the singing of the Saeta so much. There are some other great recordings of Saeta music and as Easter is approaching maybe there will be time to post something more of that. I have to say again that I find the earlier recordings by Deben Bhattachariya to be the most enjoyable and maybe it is the time that has passed and maybe it is partly the fresh and eager recorder himself. This record is in my opinion very pleasant as a whole and hopefully there will be more of his excursions in Andalucia unearthed before we have found all the records he produced. There is a gypsy music collection that may have some more. If you know anything more let me know and that is also in general if you find some of his recordings that are not here already I would be most happy if you shared them with me! This record comes with a four leaf inlay of accompanying notes and you have just seen all the photos from that folder.

After this one, I have just a few more of his recordings so maybe there will be a break from Deben for a while. There is no shortage of music however, just to little time to prepare the posts. I think I will share some more religious and ritual music as it has been a long time interest of mine and I have a big collection from many parts of the world and representing many of the faiths, religions and practices.

This record I got from Barraka, a long time friend who shares, if not all, so at least very many of my musical tastes. We first met already in the early seventies I think, looking for rembetika and demotica in a shop called Zorba, that like so many record shops are no more. It was run by a very jovial fellow by the name Costas.

Maybe you can guess that there will be much more Greek music later on...

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Religious Music from the Holy Land - rec. by Deben Bhattacharya

Religious Music from the Holy Land - The World of Music series

recordings by Deben Bhattacharya

Expo Norr - RIKS LPX 3 - 1968

Pre- World War II map

City view of Jerusalem

City view of Betlehem

Side A

A1 Bells from the Coptic Church 0'25

A2 Qudass, Sunday morning celebration 3'00

A3 Kyrie eleison 0'55

A4 Reading of the text 3'00

A5 Ite, Missa est and response 3'00

A6 Verses and response

A7 A hymn sung by massed choirs 4'05

Side B

B1 Simandre 1'10

B2 A hymn for the afternoon service 1'40

B3 Shir Hashrim 1'00

B4 Mizmor Shir Leyoum Shebat 3'25

B5 Bereshit 2'35

B6 Mizmor Shir Channehat Beit 1'12

B7 Addhan 2'30

B8 Waddoha 1'55

B9 Kurbani prayer 5'00

Dominic's church Jerusalem

Christian Quarter in Jerusalem

Islamic prayer

Sheikh Jumal as-Saadi, the Imam of el Jezzar Mosque at Acre.

The Damascus Gate, Jerusalem

An Orthodox Church

Street in Nazareth

Coptic Church, Nazareth

Shelom Kashi and Salem Yehie sing Psalm of David

Moshe Stern, an Ashkenaz Hazan from Jerusalem

Here are some more results from another of Deben Bhattacharyas' recording trips to Palestine

and another of the earliest and very rare LP's from the most elusive Expo Norr series The World of Music.

It is also a new candidate for the Folkcatalogue discography Again in a most exclusive packaging. Very high quality printing beautiful graphic "educational" layout of the Swedish sixties, and again, like the Rajastani and the Hungarian LP's it comes in a very nice quality cloth binding. Much nicer than todays plastic boxes...

I hope you find something to enjoy from this LP.

Also don't miss the four LP's of Deben Bhattachariyas' recordings in Israel posted here by Gadayas on his blog The World Jukebox!

The entrance to a Synagoge in Safed

Simandre

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