Here is a 1975 release of Joya Biswas (also known as Jaya Bose). This is to my knowledge one of Joya's only LP releases. The other one is an earlier 1968 release under the name of Jaya Bose with Himangshu Biswas on Flute (I think they aren't related - maybe the reason for her different name on this one?) - which I will also be posting in the future. I don't know of any other recordings, but I have seen in Apple Music a 2016 re-release of a 1983 recording. This 1975 LP is a surprisingly good recording, so it's a shame that there aren't more copies around. This one was in great condition, but there is a little bit of distortion on the sitar in places, but still a nice overall result on the transfer...
Label: His Master's Voice – EASD 1406
Tracks:
A1 - Raga Jayajawanti (Alap, Jod, Gat in Rupak & Fast Teen Taal)
B1 - Raga Piloo (Alap, Jod, Gat in Medium Dadra & Fast Teen Taal)
Digitised with: Project Essential II Turntable, Ortofon Red Stylus, recorded as WAV 16/48 in Audacity and saved unaltered (apart from track separation/info tags) as WAV 16/48, and then separately edited with: Clickrepair (low settings) then slight reduction on surface noise + normalised to -1.5db in Audacity and exported as WAV 16/48 and MP3 320kbps.
Thank you for the share, Smt. Jaya Biswas is a good artist. Her album - ECSD 2512 - with the great Sarod Maestro Ut. Bahadur Khan is really nice. See the back page of your LP cover for more info on this album.
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointing this out. It seems there is a fairly good version of this duet album available on the Saregama website to purchase in lossless and also on the streaming sites like saavn and gaana. I'll have a listen now! Kirrin
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Great post Kirrin, thanks again.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks Kirrin for providing an opportunity to listen to Smt. Joya Biswas ! Seems to be an interesting album !
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