Ali Akbar Khan 1969 'Shree Rag'

Here is a nice copy of AAK's 1969 Shree Rag. Like always, a great quality recording by Connoisseur Society. Some selected words from the back cover notes:

The Shree Rag is of late afternoon, intended to be played in the brief, fragile time between sunset and the end of twilight. The characteristics of the Shree Rag are devotion, peace, and heroism. The scale of the Shree Rag is complex. The note "re" — equivalent to the D of a C Major scale — uses all three flatted micro-tones. In Western practice, one would go from D to D-flat, but here there are three gradations between the two notes. In this rag, the note "Dha" is doubly flatted, and the note "Ma" uses two sharp micro-tones. The recording was made in St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University and is regarded by All Akbar Khan as having the best sound yet of any of his recordings. The performance here by Ali Akbar Khan and Shankar Ghosh.

Label: Connoisseur Society CS-2015

Tracks:
A - Shree Rag - Alap In Two Parts And Gat (Beginning)
B - Shree Rag - Gat (Conclusion)

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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.