Music from India

Very hard-to-find 1997 bi-lingual book with CD published by the Académie internationale de musique électroacoustique de Bourges / Éditions Mnémosyne, a collection of academic papers, methodological discussions and case studies exploring how to analyze fixed-media, mixed, and electroacoustic music written by the composers whose samples are included in the CD.

Original German edition on ECM of the 1985 jazz/electronic/Indian music fusion album by the Indian violinist with Jan Garbarek, Zakit Hussain and Trilok Gurtu.

On Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat, Charanjit Singh folds centuries of Hindustani tradition into a three‑box Roland future, crafting a 1982 raga‑disco séance that would lie dormant for decades before being hailed as proto–acid house and a cornerstone of South Asian electronic modernity.

*2025 stock* Ali Akbar Khan, the legendary sarod virtuoso, Swapan Chaudhuri, the distinguished tabla maestro, and Alam Khan, the gifted sarod player and disciple, join forces in an extraordinary tribute titled From Father to Son (Ragini Puriya Dhanasri). This evocative recording captures a poignant lineage of musical tradition, showcasing the dynamic conversation between generations. The album presents the serene and intricate contours of Ragini Puriya Dhanasri, interpreted with profound emotion…

*2025 stock* The master of Hindustani classical music, Ali Akbar Khan, unveils Swara Samrat, a unique and captivating album that showcases his extraordinary talent on the sarod, a traditional lute-like instrument from Northern India. This album features new recordings that reflect Khan’s deep mastery of melody and rhythm, embodying his title "Swara Samrat," which means "Emperor of Melody," a prestigious title bestowed upon him by his father late in life as a mark of respect and recognition for h…

*2025 stock* Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's "Plays Alap - A Sarod Solo" CD, released in 1997, offers an exquisite journey into the heart of Indian classical music through the profound solo sarod performance of the legendary maestro. This album presents the alap—the soul-stirring, unaccompanied melodic exploration that introduces a raga—showcasing Khan's unparalleled command of the sarod and his deep musical expression. A timeless recording, it invites listeners to immerse themselves in the intricate and…

*2025 stock* Experience the timeless artistry of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the legendary sarod virtuoso, in collaboration with the eminent tabla maestro Pandit Mahapurush Misra in the iconic recording "Rag Darbari Kanada - 1969 (The 80 Minute Raga)." Originally recorded live and released as a double LP by The Connoisseur Society in 1969, this album captures an extraordinary 80-minute performance of the classical Indian raga Darbari Kanada. This recording showcases the deep emotional depth and intr…

*2025 stock* The Jewels Of Maihar is a captivating album by the legendary sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan, originally recorded in the 1960s-70s and released in 1995. It features classical Indian ragas Darbari Todi and Bhupali Todi, celebrated for their majestic and spiritual moods, performed with traditional accompaniment including tabla by Mahapurush Misra. This album is part of a revered series showcasing the rich heritage of Maihar gharana music and exemplifies Ali Akbar Khan's profound mastery …

** Black Vinyl, inside out sleeve, 12"x12" insert with artwork, liner notes & lyrics, black polylined inner sleeve. ** Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones join We Jazz Records for their third LP New Monuments. Amirtha Kidambi has long affirmed that the role of sound in the act of protest is pivotal. In the summer of 2020, the Brooklyn-based vocalist and composer was immersed in mass demonstrations across New York City in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, organizing bands to counter the violent pr…

*2024 stock* The Raga Guide is a 1999 Nimbus Records compilation of 74 Hindustani ragas on four CDs. It includes a textbook edited by Joep Bor (of the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music) with information and western-style transcriptions of the ragas and a catalogue of two sets of ragamala plates, dated to ca. 1610 and 1650. The 1610 plates are painted in the Mughal style. The featured artists are Vidyadhar Vyas (vocal), Shruti Sadolikar-Katkar (vocal), Buddhadev Das Gupta (sarod), and Hariprasad Ch…

*2024 stock* "Imaginitive and playful light classical Hundusthani bansuri" - Megan Vance

*2024 stock* "Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia has excelled himself in the rendition of raga Patdip in this album. His melodious alaap and creative phrases as only he can, take the listener to the lush meadows of ancient India."

*2024 stock* Zia Mohiuddin Dagar was the pre-eminent master of the Rudra Vina, and his profound artistry and understanding of Raga -- and the states of consciousness embodied in them -- is evident on this album. If you appreciate North Indian music, you will probably already know of Dagar Sahib's work. If you are new to the genre, this album may seem abstract if you don't have the knack of going below the usual mind-stuff (with which most of us are preoccupied) to the deep meditative state which…

*2024 stock* "A splendid document of this remarkable culture's main art." - Allan Evans

*2024 stock* "...the opening alap, dreamy and haunting, is most satisfying, whereas in sitar rags, the closing gat is more exciting. Fans of Indian music should welcome it." - The Birmingham News

Tip!!! 2024 Stock. Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (14 March 1929 – 28 September 1990), (aka Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and popularly known as Z. M. Dagar), was a North Indian (Hindustani) classical musician, one of the 19th generation of Dagar family dhrupad musicians. He was largely responsible for the revival of the rudra vina as a solo concert instrument

2024 Stock. This sensuous evening raga for the bamboo bansuri flute was recorded with tabla by Sabir Khan.

2024 Stock. The Nimbus recordings of Hariprasad Chaurasia are among the best of his recorded repertoire. Hariprasad Chaurasia's hauntingly beautiful interpretation of Raga Lalit probably is the best introduction to that raga for listeners unacquainted with Indian music. Lalit is a serene raga with a devotional mood to be performed at dawn, before sunrise. Most sandhiprakash ragas (to be performed at dawn or dusk) feature komal swaras (flat notes), which give them a certain dreamy, longing, even …

2024 Stock. The Nimbus recordings of Hariprasad Chaurasia are among the best of his recorded repertoire. Hariprasad Chaurasia (born July 1, 1938, Allahabad, United Provinces, British India [now in Uttar Pradesh, India]) is an Indian flutist in the Hindustani classical tradition whose performances and compositions brought global recognition to the bansuri, a simple side-blown bamboo flute. Unlike most other noted musicians of his generation, Chaurasia was not born into a family of musicians. Alth…

Black Truffle presents a previously unheard performance by rudra veena master Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, recorded in the North Indian city of Vrindavan at the Druhpad Samaroh festival in 1982. The great exponents of the tradition from whom Z.M. Dagar descended were all singers, and dhrupad is essentially vocal music. However, as Z.M. Dagar explained, the veena family of instruments plays an important role in the education and practice of dhrupad singers, especially as an aid to mastering the fin…

** Newly remastered for this edition.  Limited edition pressing ** Shivkumar Sharma, the guitarist Brijbhushan Kabra, and flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia were all aged about 30 when they made Call of the Valley. Shivkumar Sharma, who had made his first solo album in 1960, was responsible for establishing and popularizing the instrument in Hindustani classical circles. Kabra was also having to prove himself because of the guitar's Western and Indian popular music associations Chaurasia's problem was…

** First pressing of 200 cassettes on Red Tint shells **  Amirtha Kidambi and Matteo Liberatore’s duo of voice and guitar creates improvised aural landscapes that are glacial and highly evocative, unfurling through dynamic gestures that are at once spacious and restrained. Juxtaposed against the frenetic pace characteristic of the New York improv scene, the pair applies the compositional aesthetics of Morton Feldman or Pauline Oliveros to a free environment. The project is set apart from Kidambi…

Astral Spirit is excited to announce a vinyl reissue of this amazing debut! Long OOP and previously only available as a cassette! To celebrate the reissue, we have a very special bonus remix track from the one and only Jace Clayton aka DJ /rupture! The sequence of the vinyl album is slightly different, the track "Brood" is now a digital only bonus track and is not on the LP (for time purposes), but was originally on the cassette version. "Phase Eclipse is the debut of a duo featuring electronics…

* Edition of 250 * The arrival of Amirtha Kidambi and Lea Bertucci’s End of Softness finds us in a vastly different world, a mere six months after the release of their debut Phase Eclipse (2019). Working remotely in isolation, Bertucci and Kidambi engaged in a process of creative editing, lifting fragments from the Phase Eclipse sessions and a live performance, to re-contextualize the music amidst a pandemic. The crisis lends a new expression of agony to the torrential caterwauls of Kidambi’s vo…

*2021 stock* This CD is the first release to present such a large number of works by Clarence Barlow. This fascinating spectrum of his life's work, thrown into relief by the complexity of his pieces, illustrates his career as a composer. It is a great honour for us to publish his oeuvre. - Maria de Alvear Musica Algorithmica is a double CD with music by the composer Clarence Barlow, residing for many years in Cologne, Germany, currently professor of composition in Santa Barbara, California. The …

First released on digital formats back in 2016, and here now given a richly deserved full vinyl release, "Holy Science", the debut outing from Amirtha Kidambi and her New York based quartet The Elder Ones, is a work of dazzling singularity. Delicately yet unashamedly divulging its complex network of influences at every turn, "Holy Science" simultaneously disperses of boundary and limitation, emerging as an album steeped in tradition yet located firmly in the futuristic present.

Hariprasad became 80 the this year. A good moment for this unique solo album of the world legend bansuri master form India. Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian virtuoso flautist in the Hindustani tradition, born 1 July 1938 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. 'Ajanma' takes a unique place in the discography of the North Indian flute legend. The recording was captured in a small 16th century Church in Rhoon, Netherlands in June 2014, which is well known for the character and quality of it's acousti…

CD version. Unreleased archival recordings as performed by dhrupad master Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. Around ten years ago, deep into a cozy and hazy night following a concert with my sound brothers Daniel O'Sullivan and Kristoffer Rygg in London (as Æthenor), they graciously introduced me to a recording of rudra veena (a kind of noble deeper bass relative to the sitar, in a way) as performed by dhrupad master Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. Dhrupad, for those who do not know, is a branch of Hindustani classical …

CD version. Unreleased archival recordings as performed by dhrupad master Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. Around ten years ago, deep into a cozy and hazy night following a concert with my sound brothers Daniel O'Sullivan and Kristoffer Rygg in London (as Æthenor), they graciously introduced me to a recording of rudra veena (a kind of noble deeper bass relative to the sitar, in a way) as performed by dhrupad master Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. Dhrupad, for those who do not know, is a branch of Hindustani classical …

Seminal recording (originally released in 1964) by the two men most responsible for opening the West to Indian music. Master of the sitar, Ravi Shankar (age 91) is, of course, famous for his legendary influence on the Beatles, but this recording was made for the American jazz label Prestige prior to their meeting. Perhaps lesser intertwined with the pop music world, Ali Akbar-Khan is nonetheless one of India’s greatest musicians, and the world’s best sarod player. Shankar and Khan play to…