Sunday 22 April 2018

Kartick Kumar 1978 'Ritu Samhaar (Thirty-One Sitar Concerto)'

Here is a 1979 Japanese pressing of Kartick Kumar's 1978 LP featuring an orchestra of 31 sitars. Quite an interesting sound - it's quite rare to have so many sitars playing together. There is an LP by Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan from 1968 'Sitar Quintet' which I enjoyed a lot. The recording is pretty clean. A nice LP! Sorry I forgot all my high school Japanese so can't do any translation!

Label: Philips ‎– 6405 642

Tracks:
A1 - Grishma (Summer)
A2 - Varsha (Monsoon)
A3 - Sharad (Post-Monsoon)
B1 - Hemant (Autumn)
B2 - Shishir (Winter)
B3 - Vasant (Spring)


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. Reggie22 April 2018 at 13:20

    31 sitars? OMG... what was Panditji thinking? No wonder his son Niladri turned out the way he is :-p

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    1. Kirrin23 April 2018 at 10:12

      I'm guessing quite a few of them are his students. :-) and I love Niladri.. such a laid back and talented musician.

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    2. Reggie24 April 2018 at 14:31

      Kirrin - Quite evidently, you are a man of impeccable musical taste. But your appreciation for Niladri confounds me. He took a perfect instrument like the Sitar and created a travesty called Zitar. How can one respect him?

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    3. Kirrin24 April 2018 at 16:50

      Haha, I have not bothered to listen to any of the Zitar stuff. I have only heard the sitar playing and the live videos on YouTube - particularly on the Darbar Channel.

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  2. Anonymous22 April 2018 at 15:10

    Many thanks !

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  3. Bill24 April 2018 at 10:57

    This is a powerful album Kirrin, thanks so much for posting it!!!

    Bill

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  4. Jonno25 February 2020 at 23:04

    Thank you.

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