Dear Visitors,
Aftab tried twice to send me all this music online through sendspace, and each time I got around to downloading, it would no longer be available. This time he has gone a step further and done it again: bypassing my personal inertia, he has singlehandedly edited, converted, named, tagged and uploaded, not to mention […]
We are presently encountering a database error: the comments table has crashed… That is why no new comments are showing up on the site. We had collected quite a few recordings for this birthday, but both the updates and your comments will have to wait till the problem is rectified.
Best wishes,
Taimur
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Music Room is the story of Namita and her teacher; of the charismatic Alladiya Khan; and of the foul-mouthed and bewitching Kesarbai. At its heart is Dhondutai, shy, diffident yet full of determination… Namita Devidayal is a journalist with The Times of India. She lives in Mumbai. This is her first book.
Click here to learn […]
Aftab Shahrukh Datta hereby responds ineptly to the state of emergency in Pakistan by sharing a dhrupad, a khayal and a whim:
S. C. R. Bhatt & K. G. Ginde - Kedara
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan & Munnawar Ali Khan - Kafi Kanada
I love those old days… I really love the past. I am going to grow […]
Fateh Ali & Rustam Fateh - Megh
Mubarik Ali - sarangi
Ijaz (Jhajji) - tabla
Aftab Datta has kindly shared the video above and the recordings below:
Amanat Ali & Fateh Ali - Asavari (Radio Pakistan)
Moinuddin & Aminuddin Dagar - Abhogi Kanada
Anant Manohar Joshi - Shree
Azizuddin Mirza - Shuddh Sarang
Chote Ghulam Ali Khan - Mishra Bahar
Chitti Babu - Tilang […]
This book has been kindly sent to us by Roland Viviers, and is being featured on this site for educational purposes only.
Alongside its occasionally predictable & enthusiastic claims & comicalities, it is significantly informative.
Right-click the following link and ’save target’.
Tabla of the Sri Kirtana Gharana—Krsna Dhenu (PDF~1MB)
In accordance with the author’s suggestion, the link to […]
گردشِ ساغرِ صد جلوۂ رنگیں تجھ سے
آئنہ داریِ یک دیدۂ حیراں مجھ سے
the going-around of a colorful hundred-gloried flagon, from you
the mirror-possessing of one stupefied eye, from me (Ghalib)
This update is a peculiarly pleasant one to make. Shiladitya Banerjee and Abhik Majumdar have kindly shared with us two private/mehfil recordings of Amir Khan. We have […]
Abhik Majumdar has kindly shared a jugalbandi through MediaFire:
Latafat Hussain Khan & Bismillah Khan - Kamod
Tabla - Mohammad Ahmad
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Samson Zoom H2 - review & sound samples
Download the H2 User Manual in PDF format ( 2,308.6K PDF file)
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Sony PCM-D50
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Vocals: Salamat Ali & Sharafat Salamat
Sarangi: Mubarik Ali
Tabla: Ijaz (Jhajji)
Raag Rang, Pakistan Television.
from Nampreet Singh’s collection.
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These recordings have been shared by Aftab Datta:
Munawar Ali & Sandhya Mukhapadhyay - Jhana Jhanan Sur Jhankar
Raga Jaunpuri
Film: Jay Jayanti (1971)
Vasantrao Deshpande - Paraj, Jhinjhoti, Bhairavi
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This recording has been shared by Mr. J. S. Pande:
Niaz Hussain Shami - Lalit (sadra)
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The three wma files above are encoded at 64 kbps instead of the previous 32 kbps. […]
Here, Aurangzeb Khan Sahib (known as Rangi Khan) is playing the shehnai at a ceremony to commemorate the Pride of Performance award by the Government of Pakistan.
Aurangzeb Khan was a student of Ustad Ghulam Hassan Shaggan’s father Ustad Bhai Lal and passed away in his early fifties. His father Ustad Alamgir Khan introduced the clarinet […]
The following recordings from Aftab Datta’s collection have been added to the vocal archive:
Alladino Khan - Megh
Amanat Ali and Nur Jahan - Kalavati
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan - Nayaki Kanada
Ghulam Hassan Shaggan - Marwa
Hamid Ali and Fateh Ali - Gandhari
Jitendra Abhisheki - Dhanakori Kalyan, Nayaki Kanada
Kishori Amonkar - Basant Bahar (from MIO)
Krishnarao Shankar Pandit - Paraj
Moinuddin […]
Vintage recording with Abdus Sattar Tari on tabla and Ustad Allah Rakha on sarangi.
Suhaib
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We presently learned from Mr. J. S. Pande and Dr. John Campana that the Khamaj thumri by Amir Khan - posted on the website yesterday - was sung for a film called kshudhit pashan, meaning “hungry stones” - a Tagore story.
John just kindly shared another charmingly dealt Bageshri bandish sung for the same film by […]
There has been much mention here and there of Amir Khan singing thumris occasionally, privately, and quite well. The ones who possess them mostly cannot part with them for one vow or another of fidelity to some other demigod/collector, and so on - aside from ones posing far more primitive and incredible reasons.
Aftab happened to […]
sarangi and related fiddles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
sarangi and other fiddles
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Shahida Parveen at Bhai Lal’s Barsi (video from Nampreet Singh’s collection). She died of kidney failure in her late 40s on 13th March 2003.
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Two more videos from Nampreet Singh’s collection, originally telecast by PTV:
Fateh Ali Khan - Bilaskhani Todi
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Fateh Ali Khan - Jaunpuri
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Here are two more videos recorded and uploaded by Aftab Datta:
Mubarik Ali- Shahana, APMC Annual Festival, 13 April 2007
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Salim Khan - Tabla Solo, APMC Annual Festival, 13 April 2007
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