K. Sridhar’s Todi is praised by Raul da Gama
2020-03-25 K. Sridhar's morning concert in Stockholm from 1991 recieves huge appreciation and raga Todi is given a thorough background.
Live in London 1966
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Happy birthday Björn Ståbi, 80 today!
2020-02-22 Here is a video that Per and Bengan did of one of the songs they played with you a lot, Tacklåten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0QdS4wzQjo
Congratulations for the Grammy Jonas, Lena and Mats!
2020-02-07 Jonas Knutsson, Lena Willemark and Mats Öberg recieved a Swedish Grammy for their latest album Svenska Låtar. Their first album Alla Drömmars...
Happy New Year!
2019-12-30 We are presently visiting Chennai during the season to enjoy the music and do some recordings. I created a playlist at YouTube,...
Three new Hindustani albums on Nov 1st!
2019-10-16 We are happy to release three more historically important albums.They are digital-only -please enjoy: Ustad Bale Khan and Pandit Taranath: Live in...
Hälsingland – by the lake, beside the trees
2019-10-15 On November 1st we release Göran Klinghagen's album Hälsingland, jazz music based on classical Swedish folk music songs, played with his German...
Memorial Party for Kjell Westling, autumn 2020!
2019-10-14 This coming fall ten years have passed since the incomparable musician genius and friend Kjell Westling passed.We want to honor his memory...
It’s that time of year again!
2019-10-13 ANOTHER SWEDISH CHRISTMAS – COUNTRY & EASTERNS JULSKIVA Unorthodox versions of the traditional swedish christmas songs with the Country & Eastern Party...
Final Beches Brew concert?
2019-10-13 Beches Brew is back at Studio HPKSM together with William Soovik's Grand Finale in Gothenburg on December 7 at 3 p.m. at...
beche.se is out of order
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...
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...
Willemark Öberg Knutsson!
2019-06-23 New highly praised album out but they are bringing their first one along as well. Tour dates below.
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...
The C&E Newsletter for May 2019
2019-04-30 Here is our May Newsletter -with new address!
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
