Ilyas Khan: Early Sitar Recordings, by Forgotten Masters of North Indian Instrumental Music Vol.1

Ilyas Khan: Early Sitar Recordings

by Forgotten Masters of North Indian Instrumental Music Vol.1

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1.	Ilyas Khan: sitar & Shamta Prasad: tabla - Raga Chayanat (1956) 47:12	info	buy track
2.	Ilyas Khan: sitar & Shamta Prasad: tabla - Raga Kafi (1956) 17:00	info	buy track
3.	Ilyas Khan: sitar & Afaque Hussain Khan: tabla - Raga Bageshri (1960ies) 24:32	info	buy track
4.	Ilyas Khan: sitar & Munir Khan: tabla - Raga Zila (1960ies) 13:23	info	buy track
5.	Ilyas Khan: sitar & Shyamal Bose: tabla - Raga Alhaiya Bilawal (1969) 29:16	info	buy track
6.	Ilyas Khan: sitar & Afaque Hussain Khan: tabla - Raga Gauri (1979) 13:49		buy track

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These are the earliest surviving recordings of the great unsung sitar maestro Ustad Ilyas Khan Saheb that allow us a fascinating glimpse into his prime years. Sound quality is rather harsh on some of them but musical content and historic significance justifies these releases to any connoisseur of old style sitar playing as the remaining 98% of his recorded material in the archives of his nephew and shagird Ustad Irfan Khan Sahib stems from the final decade of Ilyas Khansahebs life only.

Sitarya Ustad Ilyas Khan (1924-1989) -second son of the legendary sarod maestro Ustad Sakhawat Hussain Khan (1875-1955) of Lucknow-Shajahanpur Gharana was a phenomenal musician with a huge repertoire of Ragas and old compositions. Most of his life he was teaching music at the Bhatkhande College in Lucknow and lived a life devoted to music.

"Ilyas Khan was roughly a contemporary of Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan and Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan. Yet few listeners today have heard of him, let alone his recorded music. He added to his gharana’s knowledge bank by studying, in addition to his family’s repertoire, more gats and dhrupads from the sitar gharana of Kalpi, near Lucknow. His non-family teachers had been the Ustads Abdul Ghani Khan, a dhrupad singer, and Yusuf Ali Khan, a sitarist and sitar maker (also the original designer of the kharaj-pancham sitar that is today synonymous with Ravi Shankar)." (quoted from Arnab Chakrabarty´s article in scroll.in)

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released July 21, 2022

All recordings are from the collection of Ustad Irfan MD Khan and have been digitized, processed and archived by Matyas Wolter.

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Last-Mohican Records Berlin, Germany

Archival recordings of musicians from a bygone era of instrumental Raag-music and current followers of the tradition.
The content is carefully digitized, restored and remastered for optimum sound by german sitar & surbahar player Matyas Wolter under the guidance of Ustad Irfan Khan whose vast collection is the main source of these releases. ... more

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