Dear Visitors,

Aftab tried twice to send me all this music online through sendspace, and each time I got around to downloading, it would no longer be available. This time he has gone a step further and done it again: bypassing my personal inertia, he has singlehandedly edited, converted, named, tagged and uploaded, not to mention shared all these audio files with everyone. One could safely assume that he is a very motivated man.

Thank you for your patience and special interest in music on this website!

Sarangi
Bundu Khan - Miyan Malhar
Masit Khan - Bhairavi
Masit Khan - Desi
Murad Ali Khan - Puriya Kalyan
Nathu Khan - Miyan Malhar
Sabri Khan - Jog
Zahoori Khan - Malkauns

Various
Afaq Hussain Khan - Teentaal (tabla)
Allah Ditta - Teentaal (tabla)
Arif Jaffar Khan - Gaud Sarang (bansuri)
Asad Qizilbash - Durga (sarod)
Kabir Khan - Multani (sitar)
Kabir Khan - Paraj (sitar)
Sadiq Mando & Mumtaz Sabzali - Aiman (clarinet & banjo)
Maniram Pathrod - Nastarang (nastarang)
Milind Tulankar - Abhogi (jaltarang)
Mushtaq Ali - Paraj Basant (sitar)
Sharik Khan Poonchawale - Kafi (sitar)
Sharif Khan Poonchawale - Megh (sitar)
Sharif Khan Poonchawale - Mian ki Todi (vichitra veena)
Sadiq Khan - Shiv Kalyan (harmonium)
Saeen Ditta Qadir & Sharik Khan Poonchewale - Salagvarali Todi (bansuri & vichitra veena)
Salamat Hussain - Malgunji (bansuri)
Shaikh Dawood - Teentaal (tabla)
Shaukat Hussain - Teentaal (tabla)
Noor Zehra Kazim Samanat Bhairav (sagarveena)
Zia Dagar - Multani (rudra veena)
Zia Dagar - Panchamkauns (rudra veena)

Vocal
Abdul Hafiz Khan - Shahana
Jitendra Abhisheki - Kafi
Afzal Khan & Hafiz Khan - Hussaini Todi (khayal)
Altaf Husain Khan - Jaij Bilawal (father of Wahid Hussain of Khurja Gharana)
Aman Ali Khan - Piya dekha (bageshree/abhogi film song)
Aman Ali Khan - Hamsadhwani (Bhendibazar Gharana)
Rasik Lal Andharia - Puriya Dhaneshree
Asad Amanat Ali & Hamid Ali Khan - Aiman
Ashiq Ali Peshawarwale - Durga
Ashiq Ali Peshawarwale - Shankara
Hussain Bakhsh Gullo - Gunkali
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan - Kamod
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan - Kedar
Chote Ghulam Ali Khan - Kabir Bhairavi
D. V. Paluskar Nayaki Kanada
Ghulam Taqi - Malini Basant
K. G. Ginde - Hindol
Gokul Otsav - Puriya Dhanashree
Gopeshwar Bandyopadhyay - Bilawal Ka Prakar
Hashmat Ali Peshawarwale - Adana
Hashmat Ali Peshawarwale - Malkauns
Ilyas Hussain - Madhukauns
Imtiaz Ali & Riaz Ali - Salagvarali Todi
Mubarak Ali - Puriya Kalyan
Murli Manohar Shukla - Puriya Kalyan
Mushtaq Hussain Khan - Bahar
Mushtaq Hussain Khan - Des
Nagaraj Havaldar - Gorakh Kalyan
Nasir Ahmed Khan - Todi
Nissar Hussain Khan - Kalyan Ka Prakar 1
Nissar Hussain Khan - Kalyan Ka Prakar 2
Nissar Hussain Khan - Sur Malhar
Nivritibua Sarnaik - Kafi Kanada
Omkarnath Havaldar - Bibhas
Omkarnath Thakur - Hussaini Kanada
Rahimuddin Dagar - Bhairavi (thumri)
Rahimuddin Dagar - Malhar
Rahimuddin Dagar - Pilu (thumri)
Rahimuddin Dagar - Rageshree Kanada 1
Rahimuddindagar - Rageshree Kanada 2
Rahimuddin Dagar - Todi
Ratnakar Pai - Pancham
Ratnakar Pai - Paraj
Raza Ali - Kamod (live in Karachi)
Roshan Ara Begum - Bageshwari
Nazakat Ali & Salamat Ali - Lalit
Nazakat Ali & Salamat Ali - Shyam Kalyan
Sharafat Hussain Khan - Chhayanat
Suraiya Multanikar - Ahir Bhairav
Vasantrao Deshpande - Kedar

We are presently encountering a database error: the comments table has crashed… That is why no new comments are showing up on the site. We had collected quite a few recordings for this birthday, but both the updates and your comments will have to wait till the problem is rectified.

Best wishes,
Taimur

Music Room is the story of Namita and her teacher; of the charismatic Alladiya Khan; and of the foul-mouthed and bewitching Kesarbai. At its heart is Dhondutai, shy, diffident yet full of determination… Namita Devidayal is a journalist with The Times of India. She lives in Mumbai. This is her first book.

Click here to learn more.

Aftab Shahrukh Datta hereby responds ineptly to the state of emergency in Pakistan by sharing a dhrupad, a khayal and a whim:

S. C. R. Bhatt & K. G. Ginde - Kedara

Bade Ghulam Ali Khan & Munnawar Ali Khan - Kafi Kanada

I love those old days… I really love the past. I am going to grow a handlebar mustache and go to work in a dhoti, and those old wooden slippers with a single peg between the toes…

Aftab Datta has kindly shared the video above and the recordings below:

This book has been kindly sent to us by Roland Viviers, and is being featured on this site for educational purposes only.

Alongside its occasionally predictable & enthusiastic claims & comicalities, it is significantly informative.

Right-click the following link and ’save target’.

Tabla of the Sri Kirtana Gharana—Krsna Dhenu (PDF~1MB)

In accordance with the author’s suggestion, the link to this book has been removed temporarily.

the going-around of a colorful hundred-gloried flagon, from you
the mirror-possessing of one stupefied eye, from me (Ghalib)

This update is a peculiarly pleasant one to make. Shiladitya Banerjee and Abhik Majumdar have kindly shared with us two private/mehfil recordings of Amir Khan. We have previously uploaded Aiman and Malkauns by Amir Khan, and unsurprisingly, these two performances we have here are well worth hearing alongside. The Aiman Kalyan ends with several surprise - and presumably welcome - minutes of a Kafi Kanada vilambit and a few abrupt moments of Madhukauns.

Amir Khan - Aiman Kalyan & Malkauns

Abhik Majumdar has kindly shared a jugalbandi through MediaFire:

Latafat Hussain Khan & Bismillah Khan - Kamod
Tabla - Mohammad Ahmad

Vocals: Salamat Ali & Sharafat Salamat
Sarangi: Mubarik Ali
Tabla: Ijaz (Jhajji)
Raag Rang, Pakistan Television.
from Nampreet Singh’s collection.

These recordings have been shared by Aftab Datta:

Munawar Ali & Sandhya Mukhapadhyay - Jhana Jhanan Sur Jhankar
Raga Jaunpuri
Film: Jay Jayanti (1971)

Vasantrao Deshpande - Paraj, Jhinjhoti, Bhairavi

This recording has been shared by Mr. J. S. Pande:

Niaz Hussain Shami - Lalit (sadra)

The three wma files above are encoded at 64 kbps instead of the previous 32 kbps. I will try to continue this practice as internet and web hosting bandwidth allowances have happily/dramatically increased. Although the doubled file size may aggravate the problem of incomplete downloads for some users with dial-up connections, the sound quality will be relatively better.

Taimur