Salamat Ali Khan - Metamusik Festival Berlin '74 Vol.II (2026) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Salamat Ali Khan
- Title: Metamusik Festival Berlin '74 Vol.II
- Year Of Release: 2026
- Label: Black Truffle
- Genre: Hindustani Classical, World Music, Experimental
- Quality: FLAC 24/44100; 16/44100; MP3 320
- Total Time: 00:40:27
- Total Size: 95; 201; 404 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
In 1974, at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, as part of the MetaMusik festival, the legendary Pakistani khyal vocalist Salamat Ali Khan gave a concert recorded by Michael Hönig of the German band Agitation Free, a key name in krautrock. The label Black Truffle is now releasing a second volume of these previously unpublished recordings. As on the first volume, Khan performs a single raag together with Shaukat Hussein Khan (tabla) and Hussein Bux Khan (harmonium). He accompanies himself on a specially tuned alpine zither, which replaces the traditional Indian swarmandal. There is no tanpura providing a constant drone, so the sound is floating, with the voice and three instruments seeming to dance around one another.
The forty-minute rendition of the late-night Raag Chandrakauns follows the classic shape of Hindustani vocal performance, with pitch and rhythmic activity rising gradually. The first twenty minutes pass in reflective calm: the tabla only lightly marks the pulse, the harmonium and zither add ornamentation, and Khan begins with long notes in the lower register, slowly unveiling the contours of the raag. His improvisation is at once governed by a firm internal logic and free to explore every melodic and ornamental byway. On the second side of the record the music becomes markedly more frenetic: virtuoso tabla solos take centre stage between the singer's increasingly rhythmic variations. The finale, a sequence of unison voice-and-tabla passages of extreme complexity, is greeted by the audience with rapturous applause. This volume is even more spacious and psychedelic than the first. It is released in a blue variant of the first volume's sleeve, with liner notes in German by musicologist Peter Pannke; it is essential listening not only for connoisseurs of Hindustani classical music but also a reminder of the magic of collective music-making in the moment.
Tracklist:
01-01 Salamat Ali Khan - Raag Chandrakauns [23:08]
01-02 Salamat Ali Khan - Raag Chandrakauns (continued) [17:19]
The forty-minute rendition of the late-night Raag Chandrakauns follows the classic shape of Hindustani vocal performance, with pitch and rhythmic activity rising gradually. The first twenty minutes pass in reflective calm: the tabla only lightly marks the pulse, the harmonium and zither add ornamentation, and Khan begins with long notes in the lower register, slowly unveiling the contours of the raag. His improvisation is at once governed by a firm internal logic and free to explore every melodic and ornamental byway. On the second side of the record the music becomes markedly more frenetic: virtuoso tabla solos take centre stage between the singer's increasingly rhythmic variations. The finale, a sequence of unison voice-and-tabla passages of extreme complexity, is greeted by the audience with rapturous applause. This volume is even more spacious and psychedelic than the first. It is released in a blue variant of the first volume's sleeve, with liner notes in German by musicologist Peter Pannke; it is essential listening not only for connoisseurs of Hindustani classical music but also a reminder of the magic of collective music-making in the moment.
Tracklist:
01-01 Salamat Ali Khan - Raag Chandrakauns [23:08]
01-02 Salamat Ali Khan - Raag Chandrakauns (continued) [17:19]
| Classical | World | Indian / भारतीय संगीत | FLAC / APE | Mp3 | HD & Vinyl
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