December is here!
2021-12-01 Follow the tradition - listen to one Christmas song a day performed by the Country & Eastern Party band and some of...
Arolkar’s 1968 Private concert
Sharadchandra Arolkar
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Latest News
Congrats Sadanand Naimpalli – 75 years today!
2021-11-20 Sadanand Naimpalli is one of the world's leading tabla players today. He appears on 5 of our Country & Eastern albums and...
Two digital albums released today!
2021-10-08 Gwalior gharana maestro Sharadchandra Arolkar accompanied by the great Ravi Bellare in a unique private concert recording of two and a half...
Kjell Westling remembered
2021-09-09 Last year ten years had passed since the incomparable musician genius and friend Kjell Westling passed.We wanted to honor his memory by...
Cool Funeral Beer
2021-08-09 The first public rehearsal of The Cool Funeral Beer will take place at Bellahøj friluftsscene in Copenhagen. on September 4. You are...
Bosse Skoglund left the planet on his 85th birthday!
2021-04-11 We just lost the greatest drummer that ever was in Sweden. With perfect timing as usual Bo Skoglund left on his 85th...
CE43 Mapou – Nominerad till Manifest 2020!
2021-01-14 On November 19, 2020 we will released the Swedish-Haitian collaboration Mapou - Haitian drums and Northern wind by Sten Källman and Sanba Zao Here...
December – Christmas music!
2020-11-30 Time to listen to our classic Christmas album I will try to put up one song a day at Facebook: www.facebook.com/CountryAndEastern and Twitter: @countryeastern https://twitter.com/countryeastern...
Six new albums out today!
2020-11-20 Our six new albums of Hindustani and Karnatic music from last season are up at Apple Music today! Some 14 hours of...
C&E Newsletter – November 2020
2020-11-10 Here is our Newsletter with 7 releases on November 19-20, 2020
Bitter Funeral Beer – podcast
2020-10-06 A beautiful podcast episode about the Bitter Funeral Beer album.Andy tells us about the impact of the album on his life
Last concert with Beches Brew
2020-09-22 In December 2019 we did our last concert at Studio HPKSM in Gothenburg (they still have not paid us!) and it was...
Enjoy another 75 years Karaikudi Mani Iyer!
2020-09-10 On Karaikudi Mani Iyer's 75th birthday (September 11, 2020) I want to thank him again for all he did for me, among...
One song down from the Hälsingland album for copyright reasons
2020-08-19 Visa Vid Vindens Ängar is one of the songs on Göran Klinghagen's album Hälsingland. It was given a lovely english translation and...
Torkel Rasmusson får SKAP’s Hederspris
2020-06-28 "Rasmusson har gjort en livsgärning för musiken i Sverige när han balanserar mellan politik och poesi med samma stora patos. En av...
“inimitable composer and guitarist Mr Klinghagen, the writer of this extraordinary music.”
2020-05-08 "Each of the musicians plays with idiomatic elegance, and as you are seduced you will be mesmerised by it all. You will...
Ravi Bellare! 15th Puniyathithi today!
2020-04-16 It's 15 years since the demise of Pandit Ravi Bellare, the outstanding genius of tabla. Those who know about him love his...
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.
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...
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!
