http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9-Q3bwf49c ARC pal, Prof. Victor A. Vicente at the Chinese University of Hong Kong had his students in “The Music of Bollywood” course, arranged, performed + recorded some of the best-known Bollywood songs of the past decade. It was their contribution to India… read more >>
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What Am I Doing Tomorrow for India Music Week?
B. George here – Saturday I’m heading out to flushing Queens to the Ganesh Hindu Temple Canteen for a quick dosa in the basement, then a FREE concert across the street @ Saraswati Hall. Take the # 7 train to 45-57 Bowne… read more >>
More India Every Day!
Every day more and more data and info and fun things to do are pouring into the India Music Week, Oct 6-13 webthing. Just last night • a discography of Tibetan music from in India • links to the audio for a… read more >>
Blue Lotus Festival in Rajasthan
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thiqGsGqHzU?rel=0&w=560&h=315] My trip to India was a wonderful experience and has led to a host of new friends and musical information. One stellar event that’s coming right up is The Blue Lotus Festival in Rajasthan. This is a massive, well-organized event,… read more >>
ARC roundup 2012
Did you clean 4,500 LPs covered in talcum powder? Did you work during Hurricane Sandy searching for albums by flashlight? Did you wade through a mile long alley of engine parts and motors, piled 4 ft high, in 96 degree weather, to… read more >>
You Light Up My Life
It’s festival Time in India. I was in Varanasi (Benares) during Durga Puja and took a breakneck bicycle rickshaw drive trough the streets – highly recommended in a city offering hash and opium on every corner. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcRdZjzaTs?rel=0&w=420&h=315] Festivals are pretty darn… read more >>
Cardboard 78 Player from India
While in India I had the great pleasure of meeting Suresh Chandvankar, a scholar and one of the catalysts behind the Society of Indian Record Collectors (SIRC). He also spoke at the IASA conference in New Delhi, is an author and has… read more >>
Why I’m A Bit Crabby…
Because of the storm it took 4 days to get out of Mumbai, India. After 8 hrs at the airport, only 42 hrs to get from Mumbai to Cleveland, and still not back in NYC yet. ARC is safe and dry,… read more >>
What Storm?
Well it’s the storm that is keeping me in India – That’s what storm. So as no one from United Airlines has the slightest idea what to do to help, I’ll show you this sky related item: A beautiful specialty generic 45… read more >>
An Indian Ocean of Sound
Yesterday I walked to the Indian Ocean. Then, visited journalist and author Naresh Fernandes. Naresh has written the incredible Taj Mahal Foxtrot, a history of early jazz in India. And who says it doesn’t mean anything to blog? Naresh saw the photos… read more >>
I Turn the Floor Over to the Chair to Read the Record…
Backtrackin’
Just realized that I have skipped over a few important things, and so, I would like to show you… A series of unissued discs from Rupayan Sansthan, The Rajasthan Institute of Folklore, Jodhpur. They were graciously donated to ARC by Mr. Kothari,… read more >>
How I Got to Where I Am Today
OK. Everything was set for my trip to India except for the leg from Delhi to Agra to Varanasi. This would involve trains. Now trains cannot be booked direct by internet via the US, unless you have an Indian Tel #. … read more >>
Pilgrims’ Progress
I’m going the tourist route here, so music people relax please. On the road to Jaisalmer, on the edge of the Rajasthan desert, from the moving car, the camera performed like a champ. Here’s a group of religious pilgrims along the side… read more >>
Path 2 Nirvana
Backtracking: Last frantic day in Delhi was spent frantically searching the rumored record shop of the elusive Mr. Shaw. First you go to the cotton market sign in Chowdni Chowk, and into the cotton market, where there is no cotton, only piles… read more >>
Beatles + Elvis + India
Well the Beatles Made-in-India 78 was not affordable (there’s still a chance if you all make a donation!) at $1000, but I did muster the lucre for these swell 45s. In Rajasthan now on the music tour organized by the American Institute… read more >>
Paaning the Music
Last night of the IASA Conference here in Delhi, and a farewell dinner @ the Sangeet Natak Akademi. Began with: Ended with: Above qawwali group Meraj Ahmed Nizami & Party and below the after dinner ‘paan’ stand – the paanwala loads a betel… read more >>
Spare Change for Indian Insects
In my fervid quest for audio’s best, I spied this gem – a Beatles 78. India kept making 78s into the early 1970’s and there are a lot of Sir Cliff Richard’s and Ricky Nelson’s to be had. Not so many Beatles… read more >>
MY Bed of Roses INDIA
First day in New Delhi, and today spent the morning on Old Delhi looking for old LPs – not a lot out there and ‘flea markets’ here are pretty much permanent vendors, so unlike Brazil, where there were corner vendors on every… read more >>