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Final Beches Brew concert?

2019-11-18 Beches Brew is back at Studio HPKSM together with William Soovik's Grand Finale in Gothenburg on December 7 at 3 p.m. at...

Three new Hindustani albums on Nov 1st!

2019-10-14 We are happy to release three more historically important albums.They are digital-only -please enjoy: Ustad Bale Khan and Pandit Taranath: Live in...

Hindustani Sarod Sitar Surbahar

Hälsingland – by the lake, beside the trees

2019-10-14 On November 1st we release Göran Klinghagen's album Hälsingland, jazz music based on classical Swedish folk music songs, played with his German...

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2019-08-16 Sorry to say that my private site beche.se is not functioning. I'm not receiving any assistance from the web host so it...

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Extremely cheap CD’s and Beches Brew live on Saturday August 10!

2019-08-04 On Saturday August 1o Nefertiti in Gothenburg will host a pop-up record store. We will sell our Country & Eastern CD's at...

Beches Brew CD Sale Gothenburg Sweden

Willemark Öberg Knutsson!

2019-06-23 New highly praised album out but they are bringing their first one along as well. Tour dates below.

Folk music Improvisation Jonas Knutsson Mats Öberg

Solo Sissokho has left the planet

2019-05-08 We are struck with the loss of one more great musician friend. After a couple of years of ailment the great kora...

Folk music Kora Swedish World Music

The C&E Newsletter for May 2019

2019-04-30 Here is our May Newsletter -with new address!

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One more prize for Hjeltamôs!

2019-04-13 Tonight Hjeltamôs won the Dalecarlia award for best folk music! We already won the Grammy for best folk music and were nominated for...

Bengan Janson Folk music Per Gudmundson Sweden

We have lost Roland Keijser

2019-02-08 Last night Roland peacefully stopped breathing after some months of illness. Our loss is immense. The funeral will be held at Gottsunda Kyrka,...

Jazz Sweden Roland Keijser

Per and Bengan won the Grammy!

2019-02-07 Per Gudmundson och Bengan Janson won the Grammy for best Swedish folk music 2018 with Hjeltamôs (Country & Eastern CE39). Per Gudmundson och...

Bengan Janson Folkmusik Grammis Per Gudmundson

Two videos by Akkarai Sisters from their Swedish visit in 2018

2019-01-24 In October 2018 Akkarai Sisters visited Sweden for concerts together with the Berger Knutsson Spering Schultz group. They also did two concerts...

Akkarai Sisters India Karnatic Sweden

Tabla gurubhandu Sudhir Naringrekar has left us

2019-01-22 So sad to hear about Sudhir Naringrekar's departure from an asthma attack yesterday. One more student of Pandit Taranath has left. We...

Guru-Shishya Hindustani Pandit Taranath tabla

Country & Eastern Newsletter – January 2019

2019-01-04 In case you didn't get it in the mail, here is the Country & Eastern Newsletter - January 2019

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Tabla solo by Pt Anand Badamikar from Taranath centenary celebrations

2019-01-02 In 2015 we celebrated our guru Pandit Taranath's centenary with a series of concerts. Here is gurubhandu Pandit Anand Badamikar's solo in...

Hindustani Pandit Taranath tabla

December is here

2018-12-01 For many years we have been having a Christmas Calendar with one song a day played from here but this year we...

Christmas songs Julsånger

2018 C&E Newsletter October

2018-10-11 Here is the October Newsletter - highlights: Next week the Akkarai Sisters will be back in Sweden for a short tour. On...

Beches Brew Berger Knutsson Spering Jazz Sweden Karnatic

All about the GOTHENBURG releases on November 3

2018-09-19 The West Coast Edition of Beches Brew has been playing at Studio HPKSM in Gothenburg all of 2018. We recorded one album...

Beches Brew Gothenburg Jazz Sweden Release

All about PODUNK by Stefan Bellnäs

2018-09-14 On November 3, Stefan Bellnäs releases his first album PODUNK in his own name, at Studio HPKSM in Gothenburg. Find out all...

Gothenburg Release

Country & Eastern Newsletter for September

2018-08-31 with news about new albums, concerts and more. Find it here!

Our Amigo jazz albums

2018-08-06 Before starting the Country & Eastern label we had very good cooperation with Amigo Records in Sweden, especially Göran Petersson who produced...

Berger Knutsson Spering Christian Spering enteli Jazz Sweden

Finally, Kalavati is up!

2018-07-31 50 years and 8 days after the recording, finally you can download Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar's recording of Raga Kalavati on iTunes,...

Dagar Dhrupad Hindustani India

Akkarai Sisters will be back in October

2018-07-26 We are extremely happy to have Akkarai Sisters with Jayachandra Rao and Shreesundarkumar back in October 2018 for some concerts. This time...

Akkarai Sisters Berger Knutsson Spering Schultz Jazz Karnatic

Good news for lovers of Hindustani music

2018-06-29 In the seventies, when the great contemporary North Indian Classical musicians started to spread their music over the world, the small Swedish...

Amjad Ali Khan Hindustani K. Sridhar Nikhil Bannerjee

Live in Frankfurt 82 on vinyl!

2018-06-25 The Italian label Black Sweat Records have licensed our Bitter Funeral Beer Band album Live in Frankfurt 82 for release on LP....

Bitter Funeral Beer Band Don Cherry Ghana World Music

Title video from “Hjeltamôs” (CE39)

2018-06-07 See the title tune "Hjeltamôs"and "Polska efter Monis Olle", videos by Viktor Gårdsäter with Per Gudmundson and Bengan Janson from the album "Hjeltamôs". Release...

Bengan Janson Per Gudmundson Polska Swedish Folk Music

Country & Eastern Newsletter – June 4, 2018

2018-06-04 If you did not receive today's newsletter in the mail you find it HERE!

Dhrupad Folk music India Sweden

Three unique Dhrupad albums from the Dagar family

2018-05-24 Country & Eastern releases three unique 50-year old Dhrupad recordings with members of the Dagar family, on June 8, 2018. Find out...

Dagar Dhrupad Hindustani India

Incredible reviews of C&E-stuff and more from Raul da Gama

2018-05-01 Raul da Gama has been writing fantastic reviews of a lot of the stuff we are doing. It's feels good to read someone...

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On K. Shivakumar’s 6th death anniversary

2018-04-22 listen to Bhairavi with Swamy Haridhos from the album Classical Bhajans. He is accompanied by Shivakumar on violin, Muthunathesa Bhagvatar, the greatest harmonium...

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