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13 original audio files, about 205 minutes of music, teaching and conversation. These files were recovered from archived copies of the publisher’s download site and are now stored here.

This collection includes performances, a short concert sample, a teaching excerpt and an interview. It does not contain every complete CD in the recording catalogue. Source descriptions and any duration differences are shown below.

Performance · 1:31

Gokul Nag — Kafi Holi

Recorded in 1976 by Ira Landgarten. Original mono download. The publisher listed 1:39; the recovered file plays for about 1:32. Completeness against the original performance is unverified.

Sample · 0:47

Nikhil Banerjee — Bilaskhani Todi sample

Opening of the alap, Bombay 1965. Tabla: Nikhil Ghosh. The publisher offered this as a 48-second sample from RAGA-216, not the complete concert. Original MPEG Layer II file preserved; MP3 playback copy provided. The original contains a damaged MPEG packet; the playback copy skips undecodable data.

Interview · 12:58

Nikhil Banerjee — Interview, 1984

Approximately 13-minute interview from John Campana’s collection. Publisher location is written as “Granz, Germany”, 1984. This is not the interview printed in the RAGA-207 booklet. Original MPEG Layer II file preserved; MP3 playback copy provided.

Performance · 26:12

Nayan Ghosh — Kafi, New York 2001

Concert at the home of Maitreya and Nina Padukone, New York, 9 June 2001. Tabla: Monir Hossain; tanpura: Alok Mehta. The publisher supplied this approximately 26-minute second piece as a mono download.

Performance · 51:10

Nayan Ghosh — Tilak Kamod, San Rafael 1999

Ali Akbar College of Music, 13 November 1999. Tabla: Mallar Ghosh. The publisher offered the entire approximately 51-minute Tilak Kamod as this mono download; RAGA-224 included only part of it.

Performance · 14:33

Senior Dagar Brothers — Bhairavi, Calcutta 1957

Moinuddin and Aminuddin Dagar, vocals; Purushottam Das, pakhawaj. The approximately 14-minute Bhairavi followed Todi at the Calcutta 1957 concert documented on RAGA-220.

Performance · 34:46

Wasifuddin Dagar — Chandrakosh alap, New York 2001

Adidam Center, New York, 8 June 2001. Solo vocal alap; tanpuras: Qamar Dagar and Laurence Bastit. Original mono download. This is a different concert from the Bihag release RAGA-223.

Performance · 19:26

Wasifuddin Dagar — Chandrakosh chautal, New York 2001

Adidam Center, New York, 8 June 2001. Dhrupad in chautal following the Chandrakosh alap; Mohan Shyam Sharma, pakhawaj; Qamar Dagar and Laurence Bastit, tanpuras. Original mono download.

Original files are preserved unchanged. Files converted for browser playback also have MP3 copies. Archival audio may contain hiss. Raga Records and original contributors retain their credits.