Hi Friends. This is a fusion 'Indo-Jazz' recording from 1969. It was released in the UK and Australia and is one of my favourite Indo-Jazz recordings. It isn't too hard to find a used copy, however it was not widely re-released (apart from a CD version on Amazon which is stupidly over-priced at $87USD - what the...) There weren't many of these types of Indo-Jazz experiments released other than the few well known recordings by 'The Joe Harriott Double Quintet'. I really wish this particular group had have done some more releases, but if you are going to only release one Indian Jazz fusion LP, you would want it to be awesome, and thank Saraswati it was! My copy was a bit crackly on the second side - but still a nice overall result with a light clean up.
Label: MFPA 8124
Tracks:
A1 - Yaman (The Colonel's Lady)
A2 - Lalit (Meeting Of The Twain)
B1 - Bhimpalazi (Looking Eastward To The Blues)
B2 - Pahari (University Raga)
Digitised with: Project Essential II Turntable, Ortofon Red Stylus, recorded as WAV 16/48 in Audacity and saved unaltered as 'Side One' and 'Side Two'. 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.
A blast from the UK past, and a year or so later we had John McLaughlin's "My Goals Beyond". Great times. Good rip, thanks again for your hard work and generosity.
ReplyDeleteThat's really interesting thanks for sharing. It's been a while since I listened to the suites. Going to do this weekend :)
ReplyDeleteGraciasss!!
ReplyDeleteBought this for 10p at a school jumble sale when I was twelve.
ReplyDeleteTook me another twelve years to get into it.
It was worth it.
I love to play this in the mornings on a slow 'I've got all day' day.
So good to see other people still love it.
We still have it we now live in Canada ...bought this May 1969 uk
ReplyDeleteCould you repost the links for this, Kirrin?
ReplyDeleteLove your blog.
Please re upload Thanks
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