Here are two french 10-inch lps from “Le Club Francais du Disque” (issued, I believe, around the end of the 1950′s, or beginning of the 1960′s) which features Deben Bhattacharya’s recordings. The first one is called “Ryhtmes et Meélodies du monde gitan” and is a sample of gypsy music from around the world. There’s a bit of everything in this 30 minutes tour of the gypsy world: Dance tunes, songs and romances, Hungarian Café music, a church service, flamenco guitar,snake charmer music, etc…. You’ll hear bits of music from Roumania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, France, Andalusia, India and Bulgaria.
Listen here
-For french readers, click here to see the booklet in pdf format
The second lp is called “Rythmes et Mélodies du Bengale” and is a sampler of Bengali music, including work songs, drumming and stick dance, religious songs and Ragas…
Listen here
-For french readers, click here to see the booklet in pdf format
-Don’t forget to check the wonderful blog “Anthem for the nation of Luobanyia” for more Deben Bhattacharya lps.
So beautiful! What a brilliant post and so hard to find records! At least I have never seen them anywhere around where I live. and Deben Bhattachariya used to live here for quite a few years! Very nice post Gadaya. Made me very happy to see them and especially as I just minutes ago posted one of his early Argo records from Andalusia. I am writing this before I actually downloaded your posts but why should we camouflage our excitement! Thank you! And extra big thanks for the inclusion of good quality photos also of the labels!! Great Post!
bolingo
Gadaya!
There seems to be something the matter with the second download link. I get to the site for download but it says there are 0 files to download …
Maybe it is just temporary as the post is so fresh and it will clear in a while. I will try again and again anyhow
But maybe there is no need to start any extra magic right away. I just wanted to alert you to the possibility that something went amiss…
Thanks for the first one that is coming down as I type this!
bolingo
Hi, I edited the few problems you told me about except for the download links. I tried without success to solve the problem and i don’t know what’s wrong with Mediafire concerning this files. Until it’s working you can still listen to the music online!
Thank you Gadaya for your quick attention. I got at all the files alright anyhow but I thought you wanted to know to make it easier on other visitors. About the yet not downloadable file of Bengal I am both patient and eager, so if you tell us when the link is working I’ll wait until it is fixed as the online listening gets very chopped up and the sound stutters (at least for me)…
Funny also that my post of today was related in a way to the gitan record:
Portrait of Andalusia – Rec. 1956 by Deben Bhattacharya
http://bolingo69.blogspot.com/2011/03/portrait-of-andalusia-rec-1956-by-deben.html
Gadaya my friend,
now the file
“Rythmes et melodies du monde gitan.zip”
is linked to the download Instead of the
“Rythmes et melodies du bengale.zip” !
Same file is linked to both the download links!
Fixed! Now it should work fine I hope…
Right you are! The file with the right name is coming down now!
Thank you for all your efforts!
bolingo
Aah, great, now everything’s perfect. Thanks again!