15 December 2010

3 Vilayat Khan LP's,from the late 60's

Here are a few favourites( all out of print as far as i can tell ) by the great Bengali Sitar master Vilayat khan-(1928-2004), someone perhaps unjustly overshadowed in the west by better known more sophisticated peers such as Ravi Shankar , and Nikil Banjeree.
theres a real rawness , and risk taking edge to the playing that i find most congenial . trance and ecstatic euphoria , enjoyably punctuated by moments of ..chaos... which are rare in this music.
the playing goes a long way beyond mere melodic embroidery...



















The Genius of Vilayat Khan- Ealp -1266-(1966)

A-1-Raga Ahir Bhairav
B-1-Raga

Vilayat Khan-Sitar
Mohammad Ahmad-Tabla



















Music from India series- Vilayat Khan-EMI India lp,ASD 2460-(1969)

A- Raga Jaijaiwanti
B- Raga Rageshree

Vilayat Khan-Sitar
Shanta Prasad-Tabla




















.....And best of all!

Vilayat Khan- Music of India HMV /world record Club/lp S/CE 3068

Vilayat Khan-Sitar
Imrat Khan-Surbahar, Sitar
Shanta Prasad-tabla


A-1- Raga Suha Surai
B-1- Raga Thumree Piloo


NB
These were all originally posted (by me) , at SFRP's Classical Indian thread... Not too long ago...

Down sampled from 48 hz-24 BIT , to normal 16 bit Flacs ...
minimal processing used...


ENJOY!!

more info about V.Khan

A Wonderful , rare Jgalbandi lp with Bismillah Khan , can be found here
at

14 comments:

  1. SOTISE15 December 2010 at 14:23:00 CET

    FLAC

    genius of vilayat khan
    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QC4Y3WFC


    the music of india vilayat Khan
    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KTROF3TE


    music from India-series- his masters voice-(india) ASD 2460 1969

    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ASKRDS6Q

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  2. gd15 December 2010 at 16:56:00 CET

    wow, thanks for these!

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  3. Gerald15 December 2010 at 19:36:00 CET

    Looks very interesting! Thanks!
    Jerry

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  4. Nuage fiché qui rêve15 December 2010 at 21:36:00 CET

    Sotise, you always find the right words, the eloquent images to present the music you share with us, as does our friend Onxidlib ; one can just feel the urge of listening. Merci !

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  5. archer16 December 2010 at 01:38:00 CET

    much gratitude, sotise!

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  6. Marcus17 December 2010 at 18:58:00 CET

    Smashing! Many thanks!!

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  7. Steven25 December 2010 at 17:45:00 CET

    Sotise,

    First, thank you for the truly, beautiful music.

    One question - the flac file of Raga Suha Sugrai is slightly larger than that of Thumree Piloo, but the music length is only 1'39" as compared to the music on side B which is 23'16"?

    Is side A complete?

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  8. SOTISE28 December 2010 at 04:49:00 CET

    STEVEN ..the problem is on your End it seems your files are broken ( it happens occasionally) ..both sides are roughly the same length .. you need to re-Dl the rar ..

    if you are on a mac .. the un rar app you ae using may not be functioning properly for some reason .

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  9. Steven29 December 2010 at 05:08:00 CET

    Sotise,
    You were right, my bad.
    Thank you again for this magnificent music.

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  10. Bill4 January 2011 at 03:22:00 CET

    This is a fantastic post. Thank you. I often wonder how fans of improvisatory music say they don't like Indian music.

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  11. Andrew21 January 2011 at 19:17:00 CET

    Another thankyou here for posting this wonderful music.

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  14. Paczkipipco6 March 2017 at 00:50:00 CET

    I would LOVE a re-up on this one, if possible! I listened to quite a bit of Indian classical music 25 or so years ago, but I don't have much access to good recordings anymore. I'd love to see how my perceptions of it have changed over the decades, and I trust the writers of the blog, without reservation, to share the best stuff!

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