Kaleidophone Catalogue - Discographic Record

The Music of Africa Series - Anthologies

Kaleidophone - P.1972

KMA 1 Musical Instruments 1 - Strings

KMA 2 Musical Instruments 2 - Reeds (Mbira)

KMA 3 Musical Instruments 3 - Drums

KMA 4 Musical Instruments 4 - Flutes and Horns

KMA 5 Musical Instruments 5 - Xylophones

KMA 6 Musical Instruments 6 - Guitar 1

KMA 7 Musical Instruments 7 - Guitar 2

KMA 8 Rhodesia 1

KMA 9 Tanzania 1

KMA 10 Uganda 1

Here is another label that I will start posting titles from. I will eventually post all of them but in the initial stage I have only made ready the series Musical Instruments 1-7.

The 10 titles I know of were produced in the United States as a selection from the magnum opus of Hugh Tracey and also edited by him.

To complicate matters further there are these volumes on various labels numbered and named differently. I will go into more detail on that in a while.

The Kaleidophone LP's were compiled from an allegedly 118 LP's series that appeared over the years from the forties, either on Decca or Gallotone, or both of them. Maybe they started on Decca and continued on Gallotone, and there were different numbered sseries. I am not sure! If anyone has more specific details please share them with us!

Samples of record covers from those catalogues as an illustration of some of the complexity.

LF 1084 Music of Africa series - No.1 - Tanganyika Territory

- Songs & Instrumental Music of Tanganyika

LF 1172 Music of Africa series - No.7 - Congo - Songs and Dances

LF 1173 Music of Africa series - No.8 - Music of The Uganda Protectorate

LF 1224 Music of Africa series - No.10 - The best recordings from 1953 - part 1

GALP 1320 The Music of Africa Series No. 25 - Tanganyika

Musique du Mali - Bärenreiter Musicaphon Discography

Here is the small discographic entry for the Bärenreiter • Musicaphon series

Musique du Mali

I have no indications that there were any more volumes in this series, but there are at least two other series of music from Mali on Bärenereiter. One that has been published here in it entirety, Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne, and another that seems to be readily available from Global Groove.

Musique du Mali

BM 30 L 2551 - Musique du Mali - 1

Fanta Sacko - La Tradition Epique

Musicaphon Bärenreiter - P.1971

BM 30 L 2552 - Musique du Mali - 2

Bazoumana Sissoko - Le vieux lion I

Musicaphon Bärenreiter - P.1971

BM 30 L 2553 - Musique du Mali - 3

Bazoumana Sissoko - Le vieux lion II

Musicaphon Bärenreiter - P.1971

Click on the catalogue numbers above to go to the individual posts.

Bärenreiter Musicaphon - Discography # 2

The German record company Bärenreiter started in the beginning of the sixties of the previous century the first series of what was later to become no less than six different series. The various series covered mostly Asia, but also Africa and Oceania. I have already posted the list of items published in their catalogue for the Premiere Anthologie de la Musique Malienne in this post here.

This post is the second, and that each will attempt to list all of the titles that I am aware of from each series. The Unesco Collection was the first, and started 1961 under the editorial direction of the french musicologist Alain Daniélou.

A Musical Anthology of the Orient - Unesco Collection

(click on the catalogue number to go to the specific post)

BM 30 L 2001 Laos

BM 30 L 2002 Cambodia: Ceremonial, Folk and Court Music

BM 30 L 2003 Afghanistan, 1960

BM 30 L 2004 Iran I: Classical Modal Music

BM 30 L 2005 Iran II: Classical Modal Music

BM 30 L 2006 India I: Vedic Recitation and Chant, 1949-52

BM 30 L 2007 India II: Music of the Dance and Theatre of South India

BM 30 L 2008 Tunisia: Traditional Classical and Folk Music, 1960

BM 30 L 2009 Tibet I: The Music of Tibetan Buddhism 1961

BM 30 L 2010 Tibet II: The Music of Tibetan Buddhism 1961

BM 30 L 2011 Tibet III: The Music of Tibetan Buddhism 1961

BM 30 L 2012 Japan I: Sokyoku 1962

BM 30 L 2013 Japan II: Gagaku 1962

BM 30 L 2014 Japan III: Music of the Edo Period (1603-1867) 1962

BM 30 L 2015 Japan IV: Buddhist Music 1953-57

BM 30 L 2016 Japan V: Shinto Music 1953-57

BM 30 L 2017 Japan VI: No-Play, Biwa and Chanting 1962

BM 30 L 2018 India III: Dhrupad

BM 30 L 2019 Turkey I: Music of the Mevlevi, 1960

BM 30 L 2020 Turkey II: Classical and Religious Music, 1960

BM 30 L 2021 India IV: Karnatic Music (South India)

BM 30 L 2022 Viet Nam I: The Tradition of Hue

BM 30 L 2023 Viet Nam II: Entertainment, Modern Theatrical, Ritual and Religious Music of South Viet Nam

BM 30 L 2024 Azerbaijan I

BM 30 L 2025 Georgia I: Songs of Oral Tradition from the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

BM 30 L 2026 Malaysia: Traditional Music of West Malaysia, 1969-70

BM 30 SL 2027 Morocco I: The Music of Islam and Sufism in Morocco

BM 30 SL 2028 Kurdish Music I

BM 30 SL 2029 Pakistan: The Sitar - Classical Indian Music from Mohammad Sharif Khan (Poonchwala)

BM 30 SL 2030 Lebanon I: Religious and Ceremonial Music

BM 30 SL 2031 Indonesia I: Java Court Music, 1972

BM 30 SL 2032 China

Here is some more reading with reference to reviews and reissue information of the records.

Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne

Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne

Editions du Ministere de l'Information -

Bärenreiter - Musicaphon

BM 30 L 2501 Le Mali des Steppes et des Savanes - 1

BM 30 L 2502 Le Mali du Fleuve - 2

BM 30 L 2503 Le Mali des Sables - 3

BM 30 L 2504 L'Ensemble Instrumental du Mali - 4

BM 30 L 2505 Cordes Anciennes - 5

BM 30 L 2506 Fanta Damba - 6

Those are the volumes published in the first series of Music from Mali on the German label Bärenreiter - Musicaphon.

This is just a preamble to announce the imminent arrival of most of the volumes in this series.

A good friend was in search for one of them a few days ago and that was the original incitement to follow up with the coming posts. So just let me caution you to the possibility that they will materialize here soon!

And finally they have! Now they are all here!

Just click on the catalogue numbers to go to the various posts!

EMI Music from India Series vol. 1-11

EMI Music from India Series vol. 1-11

Music from India Series - ①

Vilayat Khan & Bismillah Khan • P.1967 HMV

ASD 2295 • Duets (Jugalbandi): Chaiti-Dhun; Bhairavi-Thumree

Music from India Series - ②

Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan • P.1965 HMV

ASD 2304 • Duets: Raga Shree; Raga Sindhu Bhairavi

Music from India Series - ③

Ustad Bismillah Khan & Prof. V. G. Jog • P. 1965 HMV

ASD 2312 • Duets: Raga Jai Jaiwanti; Raga Bahar; Dhun in Mishra Khamaj

Music from India Series - ④

Ravi Shankar 1967 • HMV

ASD 2341 • Raga Khamaj, Raga Lalit

Music from India Series - ⑤

Ali Akbar Khan • HMV

ASD 2367 • Raga Durga; Dhun in Khamaj

Music from India Series - ⑥

Nikhil Banerjee • P.1968 HMV

ASD 2394 • Raga Lalit, Raga Sindhu Bhairavi, Raga Puriya Kalyan

Music from India Series - ⑦

Vilayat Khan • HMV

ASD 2425 • Raga Yaman

Music from India Series - ⑧

Ravi Shankar • HMV

ASD 2418 • Raga Nata Bhairav; Raga Mishra Piloo

Music from India Series - ⑨

Bismillah Khan • P.1969 HMV

ASD 2446 • Raga Sarang; Raga Dadra; Raga Chandra Kauns; Raga Kajaree

Music from India Series - ⑩

Imrat Khan & Manik Rao Popatkar • HMV

ASD 2461 • Raga Marva, Raga Suddha Saranga

Music from India Series - ⑪

Ustad Vilayat Khan • P.1969 EMI

ASD 2460 • Ragas Jaijaiwanti, Rageshree

In some coming posts I will try to reconstruct most (well, hopefully all) of the above catalogue but I will first post the three LP's that I came in contact with when I first started to listen too Indian classical music, and then later I will go on with the others as they materialize.

Music in the following posts...