Here a very beautiful concert recording by Ustad Sarahang containing:
Raga
Malkauns (incomplete) (25:54)
Raga
Todi (46:30)
We received these recordings from our friend Werner Durand. Many thanks to him.
It seems that these recordings are from two different concerts: the first Raga is a midnight Raga, whereas the second one is a late morning Raga. Also the second track has Sarangi accompaniment, which the first doesn't have. The first Raga is incomplete and ends abruptly. To make it more smooth we created a short fade out.
In the 1990s and early 2000s there were many CDs by him available in the Afghani shops. They were released inside the Afghan community, mainly in the US. Amongst these CDs were also some with a classical Raga program in Khayal format. Maybe in the future we will post some of these, as they are no longer available for many years.
2 comments:
One of my students is a refugee from Afghanistan who composes and was worried that much of his traditional music is being lost. He was desperate to go back and uncover what remains but with your generous posting of recordings he was not aware of (being 24 years old) you have changed his life!
We thank you for this repatiration for an expat composer who is thrilled to have access to his heritage!
So wonderful!
I will mention that this todi is actually raag puriya. I have been looking for this puriya recording in high quality for a while. A video version with poor audio is already on youtube.
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