Sunday, 8 July 2012

Vilayat Khan - Sitar - A Treasure from Solomon's Mines SME 1/2 - Very rare Indian LP from 1956


This is a very rare LP from an Indian label called "A Treasure from Solomon's Mines". According to the liner notes the date of publication is 1956. The label apparently published in the second half of the 1950s a couple of LPs (the very first LPs published in India), for example in 1957 one by Ram Narayan (SME 3/4).
There had been in the internet already links to download this record, but unfortunately with very poor sound quality. The files we present here are from a broken LP, which a friend was able to restore. The result is much more satisfying then the files found in the internet. There are still some cracks, but otherwise the music has good sound quality.

Side 1:
Raga Rageshari (Rageshri) (11:14)


Side 2:
Raga Pilu (11:20)


15 comments:

Anonymous said...

vilayat is reeeeallly good... wow, this will be fun to hear a new one from him.. love the label name!

=D

Mutha Klanger said...
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Mutha Klanger said...

King Solomons' Meends? :-)

what a stunner. thanks Tawfiq. brightens up a grey Monday considerably. can't wait to hear.

gypsykat said...

Wonderful! I've listened to it several times now.

Thank you!

Anonymous said...

flac or wv, please

Anonymous said...

Flac, please. It has less lost and is almost original. THANK YOU.
BARTOLO

Tawfiq said...

Unfortunately I'm living in a village at the very end of an internet cable. That means that it is extremely slow. A normal 100 mb file takes already about 5 hours to upload. So you have to accept what is given.

Chris said...

I love you Tawfiq.

amnemon said...

Stunning. Thank you so much. This is my favourite site on the internet.

Anonymous said...

A great listen. I love the recording quality, the tape-echo on the sitar makes the whole event even more magical. Tawfiq thank you for this and all your other treasures!

Barron said...

Wonderful recording! I have several others by Vilayat Khan, but this is by far the best. Thank you.

Abhimonyu Deb said...

I am eternally grateful to you for finding and uploading this recording.

Anonymous said...

WOnderFul! Many thanks!

Tawfiq said...

Dear Abhimonyu,
my pleasure. I'm very very grateful for all the jewels you uploaded on your Mediafire account.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this - I regret that I've only recently discovered Vilayat Khan, so excellent to hear his early, rare work.

gdgm+