Water Lily LP WLA-ES-17: Ustad Imrat Khan, Surbahar, Sitar - AJMER -OOP 1991 SS

$

125

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Ustad Imrat Khan is one of the world's greatest players of the surbahar, a deep-toned, sitar-like stringed instrument that was developed by his great-grandfather, Ustad Sahabdad Khan, and Ustad Imdad Khan. With its four-octave range, the instrument is used to play the ultra-strict dhrupad style of Indian classical music. Still young when his father died, Imrat Khan was taught to play the surbahar and to sing in the highly ornamental classical vocal style of khyal by his mother, Bashiran Begum, and his maternal grandfather, Ustad Bandeh Hassan. Forming one of the first sitar-and-surbahad duos with his older brother, Vilayat Khan, Imrat helped to pioneer the unique gayaki ang ("vocal manner") approach to Indian instrumental music.

In 1956, the two brothers were invited to accompany the first Indian cultural delegation to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Although they elected to go their separate ways, Imrat and Vilayat have both continued to play major roles in the evolution of Indian classical music. Teaching at Dartington College of the Arts in England from 1968 to 1970, Imrat became the first Indian classical musician to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, in 1971. He received a prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Award from the president of India in 1988. During the '90s, Imrat performed many shows and recorded with his four sons: Nishat (sitar), Irshad (sitar), Wajahat (sarod), and Shafaatullah (tabla). Imrat composed and / or performed on Satyajit Ray's Jalsaghar (Le Salon de Musique), and the soundtracks of such films as James Ivory's The Guru and the Michael Caine / Sidney Poitier - starring movie The Wilby Conspiracy.

Water Lily Acoustics is an American record label based in Santa Barbara, California. It primarily releases recordings of Indian classical music and cross-cultural collaborations between musicians from around the world. The label was founded by the producer Kavichandran Alexander, a Tamil originally from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

Kavichandran Alexander is well known in the audiophile community for his purist approach to recording and his love for analog electronics and tape machines. He records almost exclusively using the Blumlein binaural or Stereosonic method invented by Alan Blumlein, which involves the usage of two bidirectional microphones in a 'coincident', 'crossed pair' configuration. It is believed that this approach "yields the most natural musical balance and the proper ratio of direct-to-reflected sound".

Release date: 1991

This ebay listing is for a super rare, long out of print and factory sealed audiophile LP title -

• Water Lily Recordings LP Item - "???" record labels with "???" lettering (item is FACTORY SEALED).

• LP was made in the USA

• Pressing is in STEREO

• This is a pure analog recording done exclusively with custom built vacuum tube electronics

• This is a LIMITED EDITION LP, made with the ONE STEP PLATING PROCESS
  

• Produced and Recorded by Kavichandrin Alexander

• Record Catalog Number: WLA-ES-17
  

Featuring the music of -

Ustad Imrat Khan

Performing -

• Rag - Alhaiya Bilaval...26:25
• Rag - Imratkauns...26:32
  

Performed by -

• Ustad Imrat Khan, surbahar & sitar
• Shafaatullah Khan, tabla

CONDITION Details:

The JACKET is in Mint condition. The jacket is completely intact, with NO seam splits. This item is FACTORY SEALED. The jacket shows very little shelf wear - primarily the corners and seams. The jacket has NO drill holes or saw marks of any kind. See picture with this listing for more detail. 

The LP is assumed to be in Mint condition! This item is FACTORY SEALED.

A Short Note About LP GRADING -

• Mint = Only used for sealed items.
• Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
• Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
• Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
• Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.

For best results, always properly clean your LPs before playing them.

The LP is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Don't let this rarity slip by!!!