Ustad Vilayat Khan - sitar and vocals
Avtar Singh - tabla
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 30, 1978
soundboard recording, unknown taper
2004 transfer and seed by (unknown)
May 2015 reseed:
Retracked with minor repairs and volume adjustments
Montreal: 145:05
Chicago: 42:23
187:29 minutes total
01 Raga Marwa 57:17
02 Raga Bageshri 62:05
03 Raga Bhairavi 26:46
extra track:
unknown venue, Chicago 1980
04 Raga Miyan Ki Malhar (attributed to Mian Tansen) 42:23
[fades in, dropouts at 31:16 and 34:45]
Description
Ustad Vilayat Khan was a contemporary and a great rival of Pandit Ravi Shankar and arguably one of the greatest sitar players of all time. He tragically passed away in March of 2004 at the age of 76. He has many recordings on various labels including India Archive Music and Navras. My favorite recording of his is Darbari Kannada recorded back in the 60s (recently re-released on CD) - it set the standard for all sitarists who followed on how to play this raga. His son Shujat Khan tours the USA regularly and is a very gifted sitarist in his own right. FYI, a good place for Indian CDs is www.shrimatis.com, the best selection and prices I have come across. www.khazana.com is another good place.
Concert recordings of his are hard to come by because Khan sahib disliked being recorded. This was a stealth recording from the soundboard done on to reel-to-reel. Mine is low gen cassette copy from the master. This is a very early and rare recording and Khan sahib is in top form.
SBD -> reel to reel -> cassette -> Sound Forge -> CD-R -> EAC -> FLAC 8 w/align on sector boundaries
Edit Notes:
Because Indian music involves a lot of tuning and the pieces are each very long, I edit so that only the music remains in order to allow the music to fit on a CD.
source/lineage:
SBD->reel-to-reel tape->cassette-> Sound Forge->CD-R->EAC->FLAC 8->
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