Tuesday 19 June 2018

Ravi Shankar 1967 'In New York'

Hi friends. Here is a nice 1967 US pressing of Ravi Shankar In New York. I have compared it to the Angel CD release. The vinyl has a bit more space/ambience, where as the CD version sounds slightly flat but louder. Also on the vinyl the Sitar lies a bit more to the right of the stereo spectrum. The tabla sounds a bit more open and sustained on the vinyl as well. Anyway - you can choose yourself which versions you prefer! Enjoy. 

Label: World Pacific ‎– WPS-21441

Tracks:
A1 - Raga Bairagi
A2 - Nata Bhairavi
B1 - Raga Marwa


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 WAV/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.

5 comments:

  1. Another gem, great transfer and performance. Many thanks Kirrin for your generosity.

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  2. In my opinion this is one of Shankars most inspired LP’s. All three ragas are excellent and I believe his version of Marwa is close to perfect. Those by Nikhil Banerjee (live on Chhanda Dhara), Imrat Khan (EMI) and Amir Khan (EMI) are up there as well. His rendition has an edge of anxiety which is missing in the other versions. Your rip is almost as noiseless as the Angel CD, but has more presence. Many thanks

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  3. Thanks a lot Kirrin, great LP!

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  4. Thank you for sharing this beautiful music!

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