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Réparation du tanpura de ma classe au CNSM, en mars 2003. Ce n'était pas une mince affaire ! Cliquez le lien pour voir le travail en photos ou, mieux encore, pour voir rapidement le contenu de tous les Albums de photos de la section musique indienne, cliquez ce lien.

Reparation of my class room tanpura, in march 2003. That was something ! Click on the link to see it in pictures or, in order to browse quickly, in a nicer fashion, through all the Music Picture Albums of the Indian Music section, you may click on this link.

You'll find a video excerpt (08:18) 15,2MB, of a tabla recital, given in Berlin, by Rimpa Siva, a very young and talented tabla player from Calcutta. I think the video was shot in 2002 while she was barely sixteen years old.

She mainly learned from her father Swapan Siva, pupîl of late Karamatullah Khan of Farukhabad Gharana.
The harmonium accompaniment is by Sankha Chaterjee, a well-known tabla player from Calcutta.

That DVD has been produced by Franco Rivoira, the italian gentleman who made that excellent DVD of Shaheed Parvez. Its selling price is 25€ - postal charges extra. You may send a mail to the publisher to order it.

Anew double DVD of Shahid Parvez "A journey with Saraswati" just came out in Italy. It is published by DhereDhereVideo. Don't waste a second ! eMail them right away to get it ! Total time is approximately 180 minutes and its costs is only 30€, postal charges extra.

This DVD is the most well-made DVD I have ever seen on Indian Music until now. Franco Rivoira is a true amateur of Rag Sangeet, a sincere student of Sankha Chaterjee and a true gentleman - in the literary sense of the term. That is probably why we don't have here a mere "product" thrown in the market but a DVD filmed and conceived with all love, care and attention possible.

Shahid Parvez plays Puriya Kalyan Alap, Jod, Jhala, Vilambit & Drut Teental. He also unfolds  Shahana, Alap, Jhaptal, Drut Ektal, then a Misra Piloo with an Alap, Deepchandi and 2 Drut Teental compositions - of which the first one seems to me to be a Zila Kafi Gat.
Last but not least, there is also a pretty lenghty interview of Shahid Parvez in which a number of topics are discussed as well as an interview of Sankha Chaterjee.

With the permission of Franco Rivoira, I have put an excerpts of Shahid's Puriya Kalyan in which he demonstrates his mastery over tan-s. Good download !

You may like to visit this web page to try your hand on indian (like) music. Strictly for fun !

Sound Soap 2 of Bias is superb. I wish I knew about its existence years ago when I was exhaustively cleaning up old discs and badly recorded concerts in order to burn CD and prepare mp3 ... At that time, there existed a solution. I think it was called O'Cedar (like the carpet cleaner !) but costed several thousand dollars and therefore was not meant for individuals... It was consisting of a hardware PCI card (with a sound processor dedicated to cleaning) and an attached software. Not for me ! not for us !

SoundSoap 2 came too late for me ! recording job is practically all done and there's lot of clicks, crakles, hum, rumble on my archives. I hate to think that SoundSoap could have taken them off in a jiffy. Go and have a look at it !

You can download a trial version for your Mac or your PC (nobody's perfect) fully operational for 14 days and if you like it, take $99 out of your pocket and it's yours to enjoy. If you live in Europe, it's not too costly with the conversion rate dollar / euro. It works as a standalone or as a VST or AU plug-in. Although it really does the job, please don't expect an alchemical result ... it betters but can't transform an old 78rpm disc into a luxurious DTS !

100 Years of recorded music in India

Katha Kahe so Kathak ...
Kathak

Introduced by Birju Maharaj

1 Lacchu Maharaj
2 Gopi Krishna
3 Durga Lal
4 Sitara Devi
5 Birju Maharaj
6 Uma Sharma
7 Excerpts from Ballet "JAshn-e-Wajid Ali Shah"
8 Excerpts from Ballet "Roopmati Bazbahadur" - choreographed by Birju Maharaj
9 Excerpts from Ballet "Pujarin" Choreographed by Rani Karna

Published by Doordarshan Archives - VCD

Kathak - Pali Chandra

Duration : 50 minutes
Year of production : 2003

Symphony Celestial : Kathak

Published by Invis Multimedia
www.Invismultimedia.com

Khayal Darpan
A mirror of imagination
An indian filmmaker journeys through classical music in Pakistan

Directed by Yousuf Saeed

Duration : 105 minutes

Year of production : 2006

Published by Ektara   www.ektara.org

Vrindavan

Published by Sagarika
S-DVD-C-005

Pandit Jasraj & Hari Prasad Chaurasia duet
Accompanied by Vijay Ghate (tabla), Bhawani Shankar (pakhawaj)

1 Rag Kedar
2 Ahir Bhairav
3 Misra Piloo

Live in Concert

Ronu Majumdar
with Durgaprasad Majumdar (pakhawaj), Shri Satyajeet Talwalkar (tabla)

Published by Sagarika S-DVD-C-002

Rag Mangal Bhairav
Jhaptal - Teental