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Dagar Brothers // Berlin 1964 - The Lost Studio Recording LP

Dagar Brothers // Berlin 1964 - The Lost Studio Recording LP

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This is a record released by the Dagar brothers, the heirs of North Indian classical Dhrupad, on Black Truffle in March 2024.

Labels and other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more Black Truffle releases available at Tobira. 

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12 "black vinyl.

tracklist:

  1. Raga Malkauns 22:19
  2. Raga Jaijaivanti 24:04

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Text excerpt by Black Truffle:

"...Many Western listeners were first introduced to dhrupad by the Dagar Brothers' tour of Europe in 1964-65 and their LP in UNESCO's 'Musical Anthology of the Orient' collection, both organized by pioneering musicologist and scholar of Indian culture Alain Daniélou. Documents from this tour are especially precious, as Moinuddin Dagar passed away in 1966. Berlin 1964 – The Lost Studio Recording (released alongside BT115, a newly discovered concert recording from the same trip) presents two unheard side-long performances in crystalline fidelity, recorded at the International Institute for Comparative Studies and Documentation in Berlin headed by Alain Daniélou. These stunning recordings were consigned to the archive because, as Peter Pannke explains in his liner notes, which recount his meeting with Danielou many years after these recordings were made, the tape ran out during 'Raga Jaijaivanti', which terminates abruptly soon after the entry of the pakhawaj.

Accompanied only by Moinuddin's wife Saiyur on tanpura and Raja Chatrapati Singh on pakhawaj (a large double-headed drum), the brothers present stunning performances of the severe, serious midnight 'Raga Malkauns', set to a ten beat cycle once the pakhawaj enters, and the complex early evening 'Raga Jaijaivanti', set to a fourteen beat cycle in its rhythmic section. True to the traditional dhrupad structure, both performances are dominated by the long free-floating alap section, where the notes of the raga are gradually introduced , slowly climbing in pitch and intensity as the two singers trade improvisations that display a stunning range of vocal tones and remarkable in mictrotonal nuance. The performance of 'Raga Malkauns' is roughly divided in half, with the pakhawaj and unison singing entering around thirteen minutes through; Raja Chatrapati Singh's performance is particularly striking in its endlessly inventive metrical nuance within the overall crescendo and acceleration. On 'Raga Jaijaivanti', the alap lasts almost twenty minutes, with Singh joining only for a few minutes of sparse pakhawaj hits before the tape cuts off, the absence of the more active concluding section serving only to magnify the mystical calm the Dagar Brothers establish in this setting of a 16th century love poem."

Artist: Dagar Brothers

Label: Black Truffle

CAT No.: Black Truffle 114

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This is a record released by the Dagar brothers, the heirs of North Indian classical Dhrupad, on Black Truffle in March 2024.

Labels and other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more Black Truffle releases available at Tobira. 

----------------------------

12 "black vinyl.

tracklist:

  1. Raga Malkauns 22:19
  2. Raga Jaijaivanti 24:04

++

Text excerpt by Black Truffle:

"...Many Western listeners were first introduced to dhrupad by the Dagar Brothers' tour of Europe in 1964-65 and their LP in UNESCO's 'Musical Anthology of the Orient' collection, both organized by pioneering musicologist and scholar of Indian culture Alain Daniélou. Documents from this tour are especially precious, as Moinuddin Dagar passed away in 1966. Berlin 1964 – The Lost Studio Recording (released alongside BT115, a newly discovered concert recording from the same trip) presents two unheard side-long performances in crystalline fidelity, recorded at the International Institute for Comparative Studies and Documentation in Berlin headed by Alain Daniélou. These stunning recordings were consigned to the archive because, as Peter Pannke explains in his liner notes, which recount his meeting with Danielou many years after these recordings were made, the tape ran out during 'Raga Jaijaivanti', which terminates abruptly soon after the entry of the pakhawaj.

Accompanied only by Moinuddin's wife Saiyur on tanpura and Raja Chatrapati Singh on pakhawaj (a large double-headed drum), the brothers present stunning performances of the severe, serious midnight 'Raga Malkauns', set to a ten beat cycle once the pakhawaj enters, and the complex early evening 'Raga Jaijaivanti', set to a fourteen beat cycle in its rhythmic section. True to the traditional dhrupad structure, both performances are dominated by the long free-floating alap section, where the notes of the raga are gradually introduced , slowly climbing in pitch and intensity as the two singers trade improvisations that display a stunning range of vocal tones and remarkable in mictrotonal nuance. The performance of 'Raga Malkauns' is roughly divided in half, with the pakhawaj and unison singing entering around thirteen minutes through; Raja Chatrapati Singh's performance is particularly striking in its endlessly inventive metrical nuance within the overall crescendo and acceleration. On 'Raga Jaijaivanti', the alap lasts almost twenty minutes, with Singh joining only for a few minutes of sparse pakhawaj hits before the tape cuts off, the absence of the more active concluding section serving only to magnify the mystical calm the Dagar Brothers establish in this setting of a 16th century love poem."

Artist: Dagar Brothers

Label: Black Truffle

CAT No.: Black Truffle 114