Portrait of Andalusia - Rec. 1956 by Deben Bhattacharya

Portrait of Andalusia - The Living Tradition

Recordings 1956 by Deben Bhattacharya

Argo Record Co. - ZRG 560 - P.1968

A Street In Andalusia

The Roman Marchers In The Procession

The Cross Bearer In The Procession

Easter Procession In Puente Genil

A Close Up From The Procession

Penitents In Puente Genil

Side A

A1 Saetas et tambours assourdis 4'12

A2 Soleá 3'50

A3 Procéssion de Paques à l'église de la Macarena 8'34

A4 Serrana 4'04

Side B

B1 Cantiñas de Cadiz 3'46

B2 Soleá 3'15

B3 Alegrias de Cadiz 2'34

B4 Saeta mozarabe 1'03

B5 Improvisation à la guitare 8'44

B6 Soleá "Apolá" 3'01

Julian De Cordoba - (B2)

Juan Garcia (B6)

Accompanied by Jose Bedmar (A2,A4,B1,B2,B3,B6)

Antonio Fernandez (A2, B1, B3)

I really like this record very much and I think it is partially because I like the singing of the Saeta so much. There are some other great recordings of Saeta music and as Easter is approaching maybe there will be time to post something more of that. I have to say again that I find the earlier recordings by Deben Bhattachariya to be the most enjoyable and maybe it is the time that has passed and maybe it is partly the fresh and eager recorder himself. This record is in my opinion very pleasant as a whole and hopefully there will be more of his excursions in Andalucia unearthed before we have found all the records he produced. There is a gypsy music collection that may have some more. If you know anything more let me know and that is also in general if you find some of his recordings that are not here already I would be most happy if you shared them with me! This record comes with a four leaf inlay of accompanying notes and you have just seen all the photos from that folder.

After this one, I have just a few more of his recordings so maybe there will be a break from Deben for a while. There is no shortage of music however, just to little time to prepare the posts. I think I will share some more religious and ritual music as it has been a long time interest of mine and I have a big collection from many parts of the world and representing many of the faiths, religions and practices.

This record I got from Barraka, a long time friend who shares, if not all, so at least very many of my musical tastes. We first met already in the early seventies I think, looking for rembetika and demotica in a shop called Zorba, that like so many record shops are no more. It was run by a very jovial fellow by the name Costas.

Maybe you can guess that there will be much more Greek music later on...

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Religious Music from the Holy Land - rec. by Deben Bhattacharya

Religious Music from the Holy Land - The World of Music series

recordings by Deben Bhattacharya

Expo Norr - RIKS LPX 3 - 1968

Pre- World War II map

City view of Jerusalem

City view of Betlehem

Side A

A1 Bells from the Coptic Church 0'25

A2 Qudass, Sunday morning celebration 3'00

A3 Kyrie eleison 0'55

A4 Reading of the text 3'00

A5 Ite, Missa est and response 3'00

A6 Verses and response

A7 A hymn sung by massed choirs 4'05

Side B

B1 Simandre 1'10

B2 A hymn for the afternoon service 1'40

B3 Shir Hashrim 1'00

B4 Mizmor Shir Leyoum Shebat 3'25

B5 Bereshit 2'35

B6 Mizmor Shir Channehat Beit 1'12

B7 Addhan 2'30

B8 Waddoha 1'55

B9 Kurbani prayer 5'00

Dominic's church Jerusalem

Christian Quarter in Jerusalem

Islamic prayer

Sheikh Jumal as-Saadi, the Imam of el Jezzar Mosque at Acre.

The Damascus Gate, Jerusalem

An Orthodox Church

Street in Nazareth

Coptic Church, Nazareth

Shelom Kashi and Salem Yehie sing Psalm of David

Moshe Stern, an Ashkenaz Hazan from Jerusalem

Here are some more results from another of Deben Bhattacharyas' recording trips to Palestine

and another of the earliest and very rare LP's from the most elusive Expo Norr series The World of Music.

It is also a new candidate for the Folkcatalogue discography Again in a most exclusive packaging. Very high quality printing beautiful graphic "educational" layout of the Swedish sixties, and again, like the Rajastani and the Hungarian LP's it comes in a very nice quality cloth binding. Much nicer than todays plastic boxes...

I hope you find something to enjoy from this LP.

Also don't miss the four LP's of Deben Bhattachariyas' recordings in Israel posted here by Gadayas on his blog The World Jukebox!

The entrance to a Synagoge in Safed

Simandre

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Songs and Dances of Macedonia - Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya

Songs and Dances of Macedonia - The Living Tradition

Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya

Argo Record Co. ZFB 56 - P.1972

Side A

A1 Ipirotigo

A2 Mparfalidigo

A3 Karagouna

A4 Laigo

A5 Gotsari

Side B

B1 Ovcarka

B2 Crnagorca

B3 Battle Tune

B4 Spaivcheto

B5 Wedding Dance

B6 Table Songs

B7 Wedding Dances

Here is one more of the Deben Bhattacharya field recordings. This time he is going further south to Macedonia. A helping hand extended from a good friend in music allows us to hear these recordings. It was through him we were supplied with the rip and photos of cover and labels. Himself an excellent stringman who plays several instruments, pointed out the merits of the bouzouki player Dino Trig who is represented with three tracks on this record, A1, A4 and A5, all samples of rather inticate pickings, hear for yourself. Hope you enjoy! As always there is many things to read at folkcatalogues blog, also this one is mentioned in a post on a Greek Argo record that I will post here a little later. Read on here...

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Songs and Dances from Czechoslovakia - Rec. by Deben Bhattacharya

Songs and Dances from Czechoslovakia - The Living Tradition

Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya

Argo Record Co. - ZFB 59 - P.1972

Side A

A1 Shepherd's Fujara and song 3'45

A2 Ballad 4'49

A3 Cerkany 5'56

A4 Mountain song 3'14

A5 Dudy 2'04

Side B

B1 Gathering hay 4'50

B2 Harvest song 1'17

B3 Humorous song 1'26

B4 Vitani jara 3'16

B5 V lete 3'00

B6 Drinking song 2'16

B7 Starodavny valassky 3'52

Here is one more of the Deben Bhattacharya East European folk music recordings. This record was kindly supplied by rff000, a collector friend in music who not only shared his rip of the music and photos of the sleeve but also made good scans of the labels, to allow me to keep the same format for the posts here! I thank him much for that! All I did was some minor editing for clarity and readability only.

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Music from Yugoslavia - rec. by Deben Bhattacharya

Music from Yugoslavia - The Living Tradition

Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya

Argo Record Co. - ZFB 53 - P.1971

Side A

A1 Spasila sen Janka 2'08

A2 Vse tičice lepo pojo 4'25

A3 Bog daj, bog daj dobro večer 1'56

A4 Dance Music - Dude 1'20

A5 Shepherd's Music - Dude 1'05

A6 Wedding Music - Sophila 1'00

A7 Done Donke 2'05

A8 Ballad 4'15

A9 Epic song 1'30

Side B

B1 Treha 3'25

B2 Zorla & Tupan 3'25

B3 Kolo 1'53

B4 Što me gledaš tako tužno - Love Song 2'26

B5 Prelude 2'45

B6 Gonde Meho 3'02

B7 Cučuk 2'13

B8 Two Kavals 1'05

I have decided that I will continue posting the East European folk music recordings by Deben Bhattacharya.

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