Saturday, 21 April 2018

Ali Akbar Khan 1982 'Halfmoon'

Here is a 1982 live recording of AAK. The recording pretty good quality. I know that Malashri is rarely performed (because it's only three notes...) I'm not going to pretend I wouldn't have rather heard side B as Chhayanat extended in Gat - however I did enjoy hearing something unique (AAK trying to make a tri-chord sexy for 25 minutes...).

Label: Metalanguage ‎– ML 122

Tracks:
A - Rag Chhayanat (Alap)
B - Rag Malashri (Gat)


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 FLAC, and then separately edited with: Clickrepair (low settings) then slight reduction on surface noise + normalised to -1.5db in Audacity and exported as FLAC and MP3 320kbps.
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 April 2018 at 12:04

    Another AAK rare record Kirrin, you have an amazing collection.
    Many thanks again!

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  2. Unknown22 April 2018 at 15:59

    I am falling short of words to express my gratitude. Bless you Kirrin.

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    1. Kirrin25 April 2018 at 17:28

      You're welcome Somesh :-) thanks for listening.

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  3. ljf3 May 2018 at 04:00

    Hi Kirrin
    Wonderful to find this really rare LP, which certainly never made it to CD. Thanks a bunch for uploading it, the Chhayanat is really sensitively played and the sound quality is amazing. Very quiet on the surface noise front, you can barely hear this is vinyl.

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  4. roberth18 March 2019 at 18:47

    thank u for this treasure. the metalanguage label was owned by larry ochs of rova sax quartet. and henry kaiser the guitarist recorded for the label. i believe he requested the maestro record rag Malashri as it hasn't been recorded often. i for one could listen to the maestro play one note for an hour no problem. thanks again robert

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  5. Jonno9 April 2020 at 23:01

    Thank you.

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