Two from Chatur Lal:

[Aanaddha]

"All My Efforts Have Served A Single Purpose: Sangat Both In Art And Life." - Pandit Chaturlal

Chatur Lal 1925-1965. (Long-time accompanist for Ravi Shankar and brother of sarangi maestro Ram Narayan.)

"Drums of India" LP (World Pacific) 1961
Side one: Tintaal
Side two: Rupak, Jaitaal

Ram Narayan - sarangi accompaniment.

http://rapidshare.com/files/78674529/Ch ... .part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/78690868/Ch ... .part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/78677701/Ch ... .part3.rar

Both sides: 43:12 / 436 MB / 1411kbps / 44kHz / 16 bit
(transferred and mastered at 48 kHz / 32 bit)

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"beat and bow" LP (Odeon) 1967
Side one: tabla solo in tintaal - no nagma accompaniment. Recorded separately by Ram Narayan and released following the death of his brother in 1965.

http://rapidshare.com/files/78612066/Ch ... .part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/78639915/Ch ... .part2.rar

20:19 / 205 MB / / 1411kbps / 44kHz / 16 bit
(transferred and mastered at 96 kHz / 32 bit)

All files can be found also at http://rapidshare.com/users/9HZEJH

[hbajpai]

Thank You!

Please, Please and Please keep 'em coming.

[Aanaddha]

Thank You!

Please, Please and Please keep 'em coming.

You're very welcome.

Seriously though, any dummy can upload and download music. It takes a degree of talent to listen to these recordings and actually learn something, however. I hope that's what we're doing.

Anyway, my thanks would be for you to share your insights (or questions) about these recordings with myself and the other readers!
Yes?

(OMG someone might even get the notion to begin transcribing these !??!)

[Liquid]

I dont know much about Chatur Lal. Does anyone have any background on him?

[Aanaddha]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatur_Lal

An interview with Charanjit Lal, son of Pt. Chatur Lal:

http://india.tilos.hu/sound_files/int_charanjit.m3u

...and a clip from the movie short "a Chairy Tale" - 1957 - music by Chatur Lal and Ravi Shankar:

http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fich ... p?id=11152