Tuesday, 22 May 2018

Kalyani Roy 1986 'The Virtuoso Of Sitar Vol. II'

Here is the second volume of Kalyani Roy's 'The Virtuoso of Sitar', a lovely Japanese release and pressing from what we believe 1986. From the information in the rare CD release it appears these recordings were made over a decade beforehand on September 20, 1974. Very odd considering the recording quality is so good - but maybe it turned out for the better because the technology was far more advanced when it finally got onto CD and Vinyl.

Label: Denon ‎– ZX-7019-ND

Tracks:
A - Raga Yaman
B1 - Raga Yaman (Gat II)
B2 - Bhatiali (Boatsong Of Bengal)


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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12 comments:

  1. Rory22 May 2018 at 18:20


    Kirrin, in order to compare the LPs and the CD versions, and in order to thank you for all you shares, I made a link to download the DENON CD version of this album. It's in FLAC, and there is the scan of the booklet as well, here it is:

    goo.gl/9Nx1g4

    Hope you and all the readers of your blog will enjoy!


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    1. Kirrin22 May 2018 at 22:17

      Thank you so much for sharing. As I suspected they are quite comparable - both sound good. The CD version I would say has slightly more warmth, or at least is a bit louder, and would lack any physical drawbacks of the vinyl such as reduced quality the closer the stylus moves towards the inner grooves - i.e. more information is packed into a tighter and tighter space - the stylus has a lot more work to do following the vinyl grooves on the inner part of the vinyl. Anyway thanks again! Feel free to email me at kirrin@live.com - we may be able to exchange some other CDs

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    2. Bill23 May 2018 at 04:48

      Thank you Rory!

      The Denon CD sounds superb.

      It also makes me appreciate what a great job Kirrin is doing with the LP transfers.

      I've made separate front and back covers from the booklet that is included in the CD download (with very light adjustments).

      Thanks to both of you.

      Bill

      https://imgur.com/NGNaFzK

      https://imgur.com/FaGn9kX

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    3. Rory24 May 2018 at 04:07

      You're welcome! ;-)

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    4. Vaibhav25 April 2020 at 02:17

      Hey Rory or Kirrin, Thanks for all that you do. Is there any way I can get the cd track for the album. I know I come in late.

      Thanks, much love from Atlanta.

      Vaibhav

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  2. Anonymous23 May 2018 at 18:17

    Hi Kirrin, just wanted to say thank you for the incredible recordings of beautiful music you generously share for public consumption. I can't imagine the time & effort it must take. Thank you so much, J

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    1. Kirrin24 May 2018 at 22:49

      You're welcome, thanks for listening.

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  3. ricardo24 May 2018 at 07:05

    thank you so much for loving and sharing this great music

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    1. Kirrin24 May 2018 at 22:50

      You're welcome - thanks for your comments :-)

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  4. peskypesky24 April 2019 at 16:02

    Thank you for sharing this beautiful music!

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  5. apf21 September 2019 at 16:13

    Thank you !

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  6. Jonno5 May 2020 at 14:16

    OMG, it's Julia Sawalha! Thank you.

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