"La Flute De Pandit" series
Bibhas
one volumes of the album "La Flute De Pandit" by Pt. Hari Prasad
Chaurasia. The one I am familiar with is the one with Yaman but this
spreadsheet lists:
La flute de Pandit.. Vol.2 ESP 155532
Suddha Sarang\Madhuvanti\Dhun Zamir Ahmad Khan tabla Dec'75
La flute de Pandit...Vol.14 ESP 8403 Lalit\Jog\Dhun Misra Khamaj
Zamir Ahmed Khan tabla 12/1/1976
La flute de Pandit... Vol.12 ESP 8408 Bhupali\Vachaspati
Shafaat Ahmed Khan tabla 12/3/1983
La flute de Pandit Vol.17 ESP 8416 Madhyamad Sarang\Misra Pahadi
Sabir Khan tabla 3/11/1985
La flute de Pandit ... Vol.18 ESP 8426 Yaman
Zakir Hussain tabla 4/30/1986
I am familiar with the vol.17 and 18 but haven't heard of the others.
I am told they were released by Sonodisc in the 80s. Does anyone have
any info on them. Are there any additional albums in this series
(curious due to the gaps in numbering)?
Thanks
Bibhas
bos...@free.fr
> I ran into a french spreadsheet posted online that listed more than
> one volumes of the album "La Flute De Pandit" by Pt. Hari Prasad
> Chaurasia. The one I am familiar with is the one with Yaman but this
> spreadsheet lists:
> La flute de Pandit.. Vol.2 ESP 155532
> Suddha Sarang\Madhuvanti\Dhun Zamir Ahmad Khan tabla Dec'75
>
> La flute de Pandit...Vol.14 ESP 8403 Lalit\Jog\Dhun Misra Khamaj
> Zamir Ahmed Khan tabla 12/1/1976
>
> La flute de Pandit... Vol.12 ESP 8408 Bhupali\Vachaspati
> Shafaat Ahmed Khan tabla 12/3/1983
>
> La flute de Pandit Vol.17 ESP 8416 Madhyamad Sarang\Misra Pahadi
> Sabir Khan tabla 3/11/1985
>
> La flute de Pandit ... Vol.18 ESP 8426 Yaman
> Zakir Hussain tabla 4/30/1986
Your list, I think, is complete. The missing numbers are albums by
other Indian musicians (vol. 19 is le Shenai d'Ustad Bismillah Khan
for example) I should be able to get you a copy if you are
interested. You can send me a mail at bosmart followed by at free dot
fr.
Hans Bosma
Paris
France
Pierre MONS
reissued on CD they remain valuable only on LPs, but I may be wrong.
The naming of the series was : Traditions classiques de l'Orient Inde
Vol x (indiant classical traditions India volume...)
The first of them all was a Baul songs Lp ESP 8401 Le chant mystique des
Bauls, but the series encompasses other rewarding musicians as Ustad Zia
Fariduddin Dagar Bhimpalasi ESP 8413, Krishnamurthy Shridhar raga
madhukauns ESP 8409 without missing five Nikil Banerjee which made me
love him.
ESP here means : disques Esperance. The numbering of the series varies
from ESP 8400 series to ESP 155500 series then 165500 series. Most of
them were indian music but a little bit of the series were from other
Asian traditions: Chinese shadow theater music from Luochan (ESP 8417),
japonese koto/ koto with shakuachi (Yusen Kazuahara and Teiji Itoh)ESP
165505/165506, korean kayagum music(Park Sang-Won ESP 165528).
The entire collection was directed by Françoise CHAPUIS, general
secretary of the ASSOCIATION FRANCAISE DES AMIS DE L'ORIENT.
What else? It's probably a pity that all of them weren't reissued .
Pierre MONS
Abhik Majumdar
Five? Could you list them out? I want to check if I've missed any.
Abhik
muthak...@yahoo.co.uk
i think some, if not all, would be spread across these three Sonodisc
CDs...
ESP 155530 Ragas Monomanjari, Manj Khamaj, Baul 1976
ESP 8402 L'sitar de Nikhil Banerjee, Raga jogiya Kalingada (Anindo
Chatterjee, tabla) 1983
ESP 8414 Raga Patdeep (Anindo Chatterjee, tabla) 1983
well worth picking up IMHO
it would be good to know if there are any tracks missing from the
original LPs though
MK
bos...@free.fr
There are indeed five LP's on the Sonodisc label:
ESP 8402: Jogiya Kalingada
ESP 8414: Patdip
ESP 155530: Monomanjari, Manj Khamaj, Baul song
ESP 165504: Pilu
ESP 165540: Desh
The last two however are reissues from the Swedish Amigo label (Live
in Stockholm 1975). Which means the cd's have the original Made in
France recordings:
> i think some, if not all, would be spread across these three Sonodisc
> CDs...
>
> ESP 155530 Ragas Monomanjari, Manj Khamaj, Baul 1976
> ESP 8402 Le sitar de Nikhil Banerjee, Raga jogiya Kalingada (Anindo
> Chatterjee, tabla) 1983
> ESP 8414 Raga Patdeep (Anindo Chatterjee, tabla) 1983
Pandit Nikhil Banerjee was a regular performer at the Musée Guimet.
Every year in November if I remember corrctly. Very fine concerts. I
realise now he probably had one or two ragas per season as the same
ragas keep popping up on live recordings around the world. It would be
interesting to document these and see which were his playlists.
Hans Bosma
Paris
France
muthak...@yahoo.co.uk
> ESP 165504: Pilu
> ESP 165540: Desh
>
> The last two however are reissues from the Swedish Amigo label (Live
> in Stockholm 1975).
might these two also be the Pilu and Desh that Audiorec put out a few
years
back? still available....
http://www.audiorec.co.uk/Raga-Piloo-CD---Pandit-Nikhil-Banerjee_0
http://www.audiorec.co.uk/Raga-Desh-CD---Pandit-Nikhil-Banerjee_0
the sound quality is somewhat rougher than the Sonodiscs, which might
be explained by the different (live) source.
MK
Abhik Majumdar
This link is too funny. The CD is labelled Piloo, but the track
listings specify Desh. It seems slapdash copy-editing is no longer the
preserve of Indian publishers alone.
The blurb from the review in Hi-Fi News & Reviews is even more
interesting. "'Banerjee plays sitar with a more hopeful, (sic)
Banerjee plays sitar with a more hopeful, upbeat style than some other
players, especially in the slower opening sections." Copy/paste
blunder aside, what's it supposed to mean? Vilayat Khan downbeat in
comparison? Ravi Shankar despondent?
Abhik
Town Crier
>
> It seems slapdash copy-editing is no longer the
> preserve of Indian publishers alone.
Far be it from me to defend the British, but in this case a look at
the main page http://www.audiorec.co.uk/ shows the co.uk up as a
through-and-through desi co. By and for desis (possibly uk based
desis). The slapdash starts with their domain name - they seem to
sell DVDs, books and magazines besides audiorecs.
DG
Bibhas
Thanks a bunch for your responses. Are the LPs still in print and
available?
kantid...@aol.com
1. Sono Disc ESPCD8402 Le Sitar Du Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, Traditions
Classiques De L'orient Vol.10, Raga Jogiya-Kalingada, Track 1 Alap
19.12 minutes and Track 2 Gat 22.30. In fact the CD contains Alap
22.31 as Track 2 and Gat 23.21 as Track 1!
2. Sono Disc ESPCD8414 Title as above Vol.16, Raga Patdeep, Track
1,19.35 minutes and Track 2, 23.46. In fact the CD contains Track 1,
24.22 minutes and Track 2, 23.46 minutes!
In addition in both CDs Anindo's name is printed 'Tabla Amindo
Charterjee'. Tanpura is by Ratan Mukherjee.
I also have NB's Audiorec CDs mentioned in the postings above
(ARCD2005 Raga Piloo, 54.55 minutes and ARCD2007 Raga Desh, 53.12) but
the booklets do not mention that these CDs were previously released by
Sono or any other company, which they normally do.
I had ordered from the local music store all the volumes with ICM
released by Sono Disc but they were not available any more. If they
are available, I would be interested in buying them.
Kanti Dattani