Monday 2 April 2018

Rare Amjad Ali Khan 1967 'Amjad Ali Khan'

Here is Amjad Ali Khan's first LP from 1967. It is possible to find a copy, but still fairly rare. Saregama have re-released the tracks, but you have to hunt for them and their digitisation of track 2 is low quality. Enjoy!

Label: His Master's Voice - EALP 1316 & Odeon S/MOAE. 185

Tracks:
A1 - Raga Desh (Slow And Fast Gats In Teental)
B1 - Raga Kiranranjani (Alap And Gat In Rupak Tala)
B2 - Dhun In Bhairavi


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 16 Highest Level 8, and then separately edited with: Clickrepair (low settings) then slight reduction on surface noise + normalised to -1.5db in Audacity and exported as FLAC Highest Level 8 and MP3 320kbps.
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9 comments:

  1. Rory2 April 2018 at 03:33

    Thanks a lot Kirrin for all those beautiful Amjad Ali Khan's LPs!

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  2. Gidi Hubbert2 April 2018 at 07:46

    Great first LP by Amjad Ali Khan!
    Any idea who the Tabla player is?

    Many thanks Kirrin :)

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    1. Kirrin4 April 2018 at 09:43

      Hi Gidi,

      I have no idea who the tabla player is. I might check the LP labels - it could be there.. but a real shame they don't even get acknowledged on the covers. Tabla players also go through rigorous training and are the second half of a whole in my opinion. I guess this performance was more of a standard transaction type of thing, as they are sometimes with the soloist maintaining all the praise and spotlight (no offence to Amjad - love your work...) Whereas Ravi Shankar and Allarakha for example like so many other duos clearly had a strong bond and mutual respect / acknowledgement in most performances. That's my morning rant! K.

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    2. Gidi Hubbert9 April 2018 at 00:29

      Still not an uncommon practice I'm afraid, especially in music festivals in India...
      And it's funny because it goes to the opposite extreme as well - I remember going to a Shivkumar Sharma concert in Jerusalem in 1998, but everyone was there to see Zakir Hussein who accompanied on tabla and had no idea who Shivkumar Sharma was...

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    3. Kirrin9 April 2018 at 10:56

      What I would give to see some of these artists... It's probably too late now and I was too young. I'm glad you got to see some of these legends in real. I have quite a few Shivkumar Sharma LP's, including a rare 1982 with Zakir Hussain called "... When Time Stood Still!" which I will post in the future.

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  3. Anonymous2 April 2018 at 12:51

    Well done Kirrin, another superb post, thanks again.

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  4. ljf2 April 2018 at 19:48

    Dear Kirrin
    Thanks for posting this rare LP. The only reissue by Saregama I can find is a digital MP3 from their website, though its not labelled Raga Kiran Ranjani, which made it hard to find. I suppose this is the source you mention?
    Raga Kiran Ranjani is a very rare raga, it definitely not another name for Kirwani and this recording is the only one I have for a raga of that name. Perhaps its his gharana's name for a raga which has another more common name?

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    1. Kirrin2 April 2018 at 19:57

      Hi Louis. I think this was the source. It says on the back cover this raga was created by Amjad Ali Khan, so he might be the only one who has performed it, unless he taught it to his sons?

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  5. apf26 April 2019 at 17:08

    Thank you !

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