Thursday 26 April 2018

Ali Akbar Khan 1982 'The Soul Of The Sarod'

Here is a 1982 LP of AAK. A nice listen - fairly clean recording. I'm not a huge fan of the standard practise throughout the LP era of separating the Tabla on the left channel and the Sarod or other instrument on the right... On this LP - separation has been done on side A, but Side B is centred? To add some consistency I've centred the Sarod more on Side A (on the cleaned version), which I think sounds a lot better.

Label: Oriental Records ‎– BGRP 1041

Tracks:
A - Rag Lalit
B - Tilak Kamod With Ragmala



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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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous27 April 2018 at 13:05

    Many many thanks for all these great recordings Kirrin!

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  2. ljf3 May 2018 at 03:56

    Hi Kirrin
    This was also released on Oriental Records as CD AAMS 128 (not sure exactly when, probably before 1990), which I have a copy of. Again I think the CD is more difficult to find than the LP. Sound quality of LP and CD are very similar, possibly the LP is better. But that's what you would expect for a digital recording. Not sure that this really was the first Indian classical music ever recorded digitally, as claimed on the cover, but possibly (I recall seeing a least one other similar claim). The music is fine and I especially like the Tilak Kamod, but I think his earlier recordings are much more impressive. Ali Akbar never made a bad record, but his standard was set so high, that sometimes it was only an average Ali Akbar Khan recording. But even his average was difficult to criticise.

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