Sunday 13 May 2018

Ali Akbar Khan 1973 'Ahir Bhairav & Durgeshwari'

[Re-post and Re-transfer with FLACs]

If you haven't guessed by now, I'm a huge Ali Akbar Khan fan... and for good reason! I don't understand why so many of his recordings weren't remastered and re-released on CD. This LP was released in India in 1972. A beautiful and peaceful rendering of Ahir Bhairav - a raga which I first fell in love with from hearing the song 'Albela sajan' from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and also rendered nicely by Rashid Khan... and many others... Anyway!

Label: His Master's Voice ‎– EASD 1391

Tracks:
A - Raga Ahir Bhairav (Alap & Gat Madhyalaya - Teental)
B - Raga Durgeshwari (Gat - Vilambit & Drut - Teental)


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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8 comments:

  1. ljf20 February 2018 at 17:47

    Dear Kirrin
    Thanks for this blog. The CD version of this was released by Saregama a few years ago as "Mesmerising Maestros" CDNF 150881. I can't recall the quality of the CD remastering for this music, but I agree with you (and others) that it often left a lot to be desired. In any case, with the demise of CD's in India, this is probably as unobtainable now as the original LP.
    All the best Louis

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  2. Kirrin21 February 2018 at 23:17

    Thanks for the message. I agree a lot of these CDs are now obscure and variable in quality. Luckily this was a good pressing and the recording equipment has captured a nice range so that we can hear a pretty clean result. Without a good recording you'll never ever get a good end result whether vinyl or CD!

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  3. Anonymous14 May 2018 at 17:41

    Many thanks Kirrin for the upgrade !

    cheers,
    PS.

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  4. Bill15 May 2018 at 03:24

    Kirrin, I have the earlier 16/44.1 version you put up. Do you suggest replacing that earlier version with this one?

    Bill

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    1. Kirrin15 May 2018 at 10:10

      Hi Bill.

      The only real difference on this transfer is the use of click repair. I have been thoroughly pleased with the results, so using it on all my edited (cleaned) versions now.

      Kirrin

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  5. Bill15 May 2018 at 15:26

    Thanks Kirrin. I will get the new version in that case.

    Bill

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  6. apf22 March 2019 at 15:04

    Thank you !

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