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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...

Country & Eastern Newsletter – April 12, 2018

2018-05-02 If you did not receive today's newsletter in the mail you find it HERE!

Dhrupad Folk music India Sweden

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

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Our 2017 releases are out!

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

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“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...

Here is the first film from our October visit to India

2015-12-25 As part of the Centenary celebrations for our Guru Pandit Taranath in October 2015, The Berger Knutsson Spering trio travelled and gave...

Berger Knutsson Spering Hindustani India Pandit Taranath

C&E Newsletter – November-15

2015-11-21 Berger Knutsson Spering in India – Praise for our new albums – Beches Brew gives two concerts in preparation for the India...

Beches Brew Berger Knutsson Spering Christmas Gothenburg

Pt Taranath centenary celebrations

2015-11-15 As you might know the Berger Knutsson Spering trio took part in the centenary celebrations of tabla maestro Pandit Taranath in India...

Konnakol by Nellai P.S. Devarajan (1918-1987)

2015-11-05 Here is a video that I just prepared, with a few photos of my mridangam guru P.S. Devarajan and Konnakol (spoken drum...

Rave reviews for BLUE BLUE by Berger Knutsson Spering Schultz!

2015-10-26 We were quite pleased with our album Blue Blue, but is it really THAT good? "Relationships come easy although the core trio...

Berger Knutsson Spering Jazz Max Schultz Swedish

BKS completed the Pandit Taranath Centenary tour

2015-10-14 Here you see Berger Knutsson Spering together with many of Pandith Taranath's students since a very long time after the last concert...

Berger Knutsson Spering Guru-Shishya Hindustani India

Berger Knutsson Spering to India for concerts in honor of Pandit Taranath

2015-09-28 NO ALBUM DELIVERIES FROM C&E UNTIL OKTOBER 20 BECAUSE OF OUR TOUR TO INDIA. Sorry about that, you can buy stuff but...

Thomas Tidholm – Jonas Knutsson released ORSA BY NIGHT

2015-09-20 In the afternoon of saturday September 9, Thomas Tidholm and Jonas Knutsson gave an intimate release concert for the new album Orsa by Night,...