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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!

Beches Brew Dhrupad Folk music Jazz Sweden

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

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

Folk music Gothenburg India Jazz Sweden

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

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

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

C&E Newsletter – January 2018 BECHES BREW IN GOTHENBURG/COMING RELEASES

2018-02-06 The Newsletter in English / Nyhetsbrevet på svenska / Read about our coming releases and Beches Brew every Saturday afternoon from 3 to 6 p.m....

Beches Brew Christmas Dhrupad Hindustani

C&E Newsletter – November 2017

2017-11-22 Info about three days at Plugged Records this week - Nicolai Dunger concert dates - The most recent albums - Christmas Calendar...

Beches Brew Berger Knutsson Spering Christmas Guru-Shishya

“Praise Drumming” w Bitter Funeral Beer Band suddenly on CD!

2017-10-02 A knock on my door and suddenly two boxes arrived from Dragon Records with the CD release of the second album w...

Ghana Jazz Sweden West Africa World Music

C&E Newsletter – October 2017

2017-10-02 Here is our newsletter with live events during the fall and good respons to our August releases

Beches Indian Brew Berger Knutsson Spering Schultz Nicolai Dunger Thomas Gustafsson

Our 2017 releases are out!

2017-08-24 Animated GIF, click it, it works.

Beches Brew India Karnatic Sweden

“Dagar, Djur” – video from Beches Indian Brew

2017-08-23 Here is the centre piece from the album Beches Indian Brew, "Dagar, Djur" by Bengt Berger, released on August 24, 2017 on...

Akkarai Sisters Beches Brew Karnatic Swedish

First video from the Beches Indian Brew album

2017-08-09 Here is a relaxed version of "Congo Square" from the recording of Beches Indian Brew, filmed at Kulturhuset in Stockholm October 2017...

Beches Brew India Jazz Sweden

Here are our 2017 releases!

2017-07-31 Country & Eastern Newsletter August 2017 From August 24 you can enjoy three wonderful new albums: ORI VARIATIONS, BECHES INDIAN BREW and...

Beches Brew India Jazz Karnatic

Beches Indian Brew – Swedish tour concluded – wonderful response

2017-02-18 Thank you all for a wonderful tour. We had full houses in Stockholm and Umeå and feel very appreciated by our audiences...

Beches Brew Bengt Berger India Jazz

C&E Newsletter – Januari 2017

2017-02-17 Farewell concerts in 2017 ! Country & Eastern newsletter Januari 2017 At the end of the summer I'll be 75. I have decided that this...

Beches Brew Bengt Berger India Jazz

C&E nyhetsbrev – Januari 2017

2017-02-17 Avskedskonserter 2017 ! Country & Easterns nyhetsbrev Januari 2017 När sommaren tar slut fyller jag 75 och tänker att 2017 får bli mitt sista år som...

Bengt Berger India Jazz Karnatic

Svenskt nyhetsbrev – Oktober

2016-10-09 Våra konserter 16-29 oktober Country & Easterns nyhetsbrev Oktober 2016 Under januari 2016 besökte Beches Brew Indien och gav konserter i Chennai, Pune och Mumbai tillsammans med några...

Country & Eastern Newsletter – September 2016

2016-09-19 The Country & Eastern September 2016 Newsletter is here but if you didn't get, send a mail to info(at)countryandeastern.se or find it here

Beches Brew Ghana India Karnatic

Our 2015 albums – Now via streaming

2016-09-04 One year has passed so now we make our 2015 releases available via streaming media. Last years albums were Evening at Pekkosgården...

Berger Knutsson Spering Folk music Hindustani India

The Beches Indian Brew ingredients 1, from India:

2016-09-02 Presenting the participants, great musicians from India, Ghana and Sweden. Today we introduce violin and vocal by Akkarai Sisters, khanjira by Shree Sundarkumar and...

Beches Brew India Karnatic Sweden

Beches Indian Brew – concert tour October 16 – 29

2016-09-01 Thanks to a grant from Musikverket we have been able to visit India twice during the last twelve months to give concerts...

Contemporary India Jazz Karnatic

Huge update of the Country & Eastern site!

2016-08-31 There might still be some minor problems and some photos and stuff are not uploaded yet, but basically the Country & Eastern site should...

Contemporary Folk music Ghana India

Beches Brew’s concerts in India – grand success!!!

2016-01-04 On the morning of January 3 we gave our concert in Chennai together with the four marvelous Karnatic vidwans, V. Suresh -...

Beches Brew Bengt Berger Hindustani Jazz

On December 28 Beches Brew leaves for Chennai and Mumbai!

2015-12-27 There will be no album deliveries while we are in India. You may buy albums from our site but we can't send...

Beches Brew Bengt Berger Hindustani India

The second film – BKS in India 2015

2015-12-26 One more film from the centenary celebrations for our Guru Pandit Taranath. The Berger Knutsson Spering trio visited Anandashram in Kanhangad together...