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Ustad on sitar – Bhairavi release on November 10!

2023-11-09 From November 10 on you can hear one more Bhairavi with Ustad Z.M. Dagar from the days when...

Some sincere Praise!

2023-08-15 Hello Bengt: Trust you are well. I am writing to advise that I have bought the Mohi Bahauddin...

Release dates for Dagar Brothers J:r with Ravi Bellare

2023-03-02 On January 19th 1968, Dhrupad master singers Ustad Zahiruddin Dagar and Ustad Fayazuddin Dagar gave a private concert...

Bahauddin’s Ahir Bhairav on vinyl!

2022-05-10 GOOD NEWS IN MAY 2022: OUR FRIEND AND COLLABORATOR DAVIDE DOMINCHINI IN ITALY HAS RELEASED A VINYL  OF...

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...

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!...

C&E Newsletter – November 2020

2020-11-10 Here is our Newsletter with 7 releases on  November 19-20, 2020

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sadanand Naimpalli’s new solo tabla album praised by Zakir, Anindo, Swapan and Suresh

2018-01-14 Country & Eastern is very happy to present Sadanand Naimpalli's groundbreaking album Maha Taal Yaag where he plays...

Here are all our Indian albums

2018-01-01 Happy New Year! As we have gotten quite a number of Indian music rasikas to follow us lately,...

C&E Newsletter – November 2017

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

Our 2017 releases are in the mail!

2017-07-31 Today we send out our new three albums! Release date is August 24. Prepare for the arrival of Beches Indian...

Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar’s 88th birthday today

2017-03-14 Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar March 14, 1929 - September 28, 1990

Our tabla guru Pandit Taranath – 102 years today

2017-03-05 Today, on March 6 2017, his 102nd birthday I'd like to share a small message from him as he...

Sebastian Åberg is 40!

2017-02-11 Drummer/tablawala Sebastian Åberg, student of Maruti Kurdekar is celebrating his 40th birthday today. Check out his album The...

Just found a photo from the CE36 recording in 1969

2017-01-11 Z.M. Dagar and Pandit Taranath, recording Live in Stockholm 1969 in a private concert.

Happy Birthday Sridhar, 69 years today!

2017-01-08 K. Sridhar learnt from Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar since he was a small boy. He is one of...

2002 Fyra Indiska Mästare 3 – Shivakumar-Sridhar-Maruti-Shyam

2016-11-29 Last video, a Hindustani-Karnatic Jugalbandi with K. Srivakumar,violin K. Sridhar, sarod, Maruti Kurdekar, tabla and Shyam Venkataraman, mridangam....

Raag Madhuvanti w K. Sridhar and Maruti Kurdekar (2002)

2016-11-27 Raag Madhuvanti w compositions in Teental w K. Sridhar, sarod and Pandit Taranath's disciple Maruti Kurdekar, tabla. From...

“EDITH” ON TOUR – video with updated sound uploaded

2016-11-25   Beches Indian Brew on tour in India and Sweden during 2016. Various versions of Edith, a piece...

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...

Bengt Berger, drums, composer, leader

2016-05-05 ” There is vorticist movement in percussion colorist Bengt Berger's music. Like a whirling fluid mass slingshot around the...

Even more praise for Z.M. Dagar and Pandit Taranath’s Live in Stockholm

2016-05-02 "IF YOU ARE A CONNOISSEUR OF INDIAN MUSIC THERE WOULD BE A GAPING HOLE IN YOUR LIBRARY WITHOUT...

4th death anniversary for great violinist friend Bombay K. Shivakumar today.

2016-04-22 People die a lot these days unfortunately. Just heard of the great Prince's demise and today is the...

Death anniversary of tabla genius Ravi Bellare today

2016-04-17 On April 17 our Gurubhai Ravi Bellare (1927-2005) left this world. You can hear his outstanding genius on two...

Pandit Taranath is 101 today!

2016-03-06 Today, on March 6, 2016, we concluded our guru Pandit Taranath Rao's Centenary but he will stay in...

The first video from the January tour: “Happy Hindu”, Mumbai 2016

2016-02-05 On January 12, 2016 we played our last concert in Celebration of tabla guru Pandit Taranath Centenary in...

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...

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...

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...

C&E Newsletter – November-15

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

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...

Our new albums are in the mail today

2015-08-11 Is child labour and old people with a pension necessary to run a record label today? Today our...

Samples from our september releases

2015-07-25 By accident I published sample tracks from our three albums to be released on september 9. You can...

Pandit Taranathji 100! Documentary plus 12 Punyatithi concert videos.

2015-05-03 Jai Guru! We are sending herewith a 20 mins Documentary Film of our most Beloved Guruji. We are...

Pandit Taranathji 100! Documentary plus 12 Punyatithi concert videos.

2015-05-03 Jai Guru! We are sending herewith a 20 mins Documentary Film of our most Beloved Guruji. We are...

Tabla wizard Sadanand Naimpalli visits Sweden and Finland in April

2015-04-20 CONCERT TONIGHT AT 7 PM AT PYGMÉTEATERN, VEGAGATAN 17, ODENPLAN, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN! He is one of the handful...

Jai Guru! Pandit Taranath 100 years today!

2015-03-06 Exactly 100 years ago today, Indian percussion legend Pandit Taranath Rama Rao Hattiangady (1915-1991) was born. He studied...

Jai Guru! Pandit Taranath 100 years today!

2015-03-06 On march 6, 1915, exactly 100 years ago today, Indian percussion legend Pandit Taranath Rama Rao Hattiangady (1915-1991)...

Pakhawaj solo by Pandit Taranath Rama Rao, Stockholm 1969

2014-09-29 In 1969, on their way back to India from their first time in US, guru Sadanand's Pandit Taranath...

Country & Eastern on iTunes

2014-07-14 We have had a lot of problems getting correct titles and artists on iTunes for our productions but...

Two death anniversaries from Chembur

2014-04-22 K. Shivakumar is playing on the albums with Swamy Haridhos and on the album "Karnatic  Harmonium" together with harmonium wizard Muthunathesa Bhagvatar...

Another C&E video: Sebastian Åberg’s Sangeet Project in a live concert

2014-04-12 About Sebastian  About the album

The Country & Eastern YouTube channel

2014-03-29 We are currently uploading various C&E related videos on our YouTube channel. So far there are videos of Bitter...

A sample with sarod maestro K. Sridhar from our album Rare Ragas and Talas

2014-01-13 From the digital-only album Rare Ragas and Talas, here is a Gat in Raag Shanmukhapriya, Jhumpak Tala (of...

Ustad Zia Fariduddin 1932-2013

2013-05-09 Some words from his shishya Pandit Uday Bhawalkar: "I feel blessed that Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar was my...

K. Shivakumar – one year since his demise

2013-04-22 Listen to Begda, piece from our digital album Karnatic Harmonium where Shivakumar, age 23, plays  with harmonium legend Muthunathesa...

Off To India

2012-12-12 So I'm going there now to meet old musician friends and take part in "The Season", the worlds...

All of our 2012 releases

2012-11-17 Bengt Berger-Roland Keijser-Kjell Westling: The Vedbod Tapes and More Vedbod TapesIn a “vedbod” (woodshed in swedish) in the...

Five Hindustani Maestros

2012-08-03 The complete collection of the famous swedish Amigo recordings of great north indian classical music is available for...

May 22: Legendary tabla soloists – two albums w Ravi & Shashi Bellare

2012-05-08 On may 22 Country & Eastern will release a digital-only album with a tabla solo by Ravi Bellare,...

Violin maestro Bombay K. Shivakumar dead

2012-04-23 Listen to a few solos he did during a tour of Britain in 1994 Here is a video...

Double release from Country & Eastern on monday sep 26! Party on the 27th!

2011-09-23  Next in our series of north indian art music releases is yet another Dhrupad masterpiece, the morning ragini...

Country & Eastern news – september 2011

2011-08-30   This is what happens in september 2011: BEFIVE, that is Bengt Ernryd, Jonas Knutsson, Mats Öberg, Christian...

Country & Eastern news – september 2011

2011-08-30 This is what happens in september 2011: BEFIVE, that is Bengt Ernryd, Jonas Knutsson, Mats Öberg, Christian Spering...

New site celebration offer

2011-03-18 These albums are not available in digital format and we offer them for a mere 50 SEK each;...

Academy Award for Nityanand Haldipur

2010-12-23 The General Council of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, New Delhi at its...

Sadanand Naimpalli in Stockholm

2010-11-12 In december 10 2010, 43 years after recording our CE01 and CEX02 albums, Pandit Sadanand Naimpalli has become...