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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...

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...

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...

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...

Country & Eastern Newsletter – June 4, 2018

2018-06-04 If you did not receive today's newsletter in the mail you find it HERE!

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...

Incredible reviews of C&E-stuff and more from Raul da Gama

2018-05-01 Raul da Gama has been writing fantastic reviews of a lot of the stuff we are doing. It's...

On K. Shivakumar’s 6th death anniversary

2018-04-22 listen to Bhairavi with Swamy Haridhos from the album Classical Bhajans. He is accompanied by Shivakumar on violin, Muthunathesa...

Interview with the C&E artistic advisor

2018-04-02 Todo Mundo just published an interview with Bengt Berger.

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 out!

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

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...

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,...

First mix from the Beches Indian Brew album

2017-05-09 Listen to Sigge Krantz' first mix from the Country & Eastern album Beches Indian Brew, due in August. Live...

New Swamy Haridhos page at beche.se

2017-03-15 My site beche.se is slowly taking shape, today I addad a page about Swamy Haridhos, do visit the...

Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar’s 88th birthday today

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

Thug Life – Swedish Tabla Gangsta

2017-03-01 My son Jöns Jönsson is making fun of his father, very disrespectful <:-)

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...

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...

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...

Last chance to hear Akkarai Sisters’ Stockholm concert

2017-02-17 I just want to remind you that today or maybe tomorrow is the last day to hear Akkarai...

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...

Akkarai Sisters on Swedish Radio today!

2017-01-19 A full Karnatic concert with violin duo extraordinaire Subhalakshmi and Sornalatha Akkarai accompanied by Jayachandra Rao on mridangam...

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...

SIMBA – Månadens Indie: Country & Eastern

2016-12-27 Swedish Independent Music Business Alternative presents Indie of the Month for December 2016 - in Swedish

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...

Beches Indian Brew – Swedish tour concluded – wonderful response

2016-11-05 Thank you all for a wonderful tour. We had full houses in Stockholm and Umeå and feel very...

Last concert on Beches Indian Brew tour + Edith video

2016-10-28 Saturday morning you can hear the Akkarai Sisters in Umeå and in the evening we play our last...

Mridangist Shyam Venkatramani dies suddenly

2016-10-24 Dear friend and extremely gifted mridangam vidwan Shyam Venkatramani is demised after short illness. I heard and met...

Copenhagen, Malmö last two days. Tonight we play Kristianstad

2016-10-22 Beches Indian Brew played Copenhagen on the 20th,  Malmö last night and at 7 pm we play at Kulturkvarteret...

Drawings by Martin Ehrling from our first concert

2016-10-18 On October 16 we gave our first Beches Indian Brew concert in Stockholm. Martin Ehrling did these. The...

Our first concert at 4 p.m. today (October 16)

2016-10-16 Beches Indian Brew is having the first show today at Kulturhuset in Stockholm.

Umeå Jazz Festival – from the press conference

2016-09-20 Umeå is where we conclude our tour for the Akkarai Sisters and for Beches Indian Brew. Today this...

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...

Here is our September Newsletter

2016-09-18 The Country & Eastern September 2016 Newsletter is here but if you didn't get, send a mail to info(at)countryandeastern.se

The golden poster just arrived

2016-09-15 Now, just one month till the tour starts!

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...

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...

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...

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...

Presentation of our Karnatic guests

2016-08-13 At the new artist page you find a presentation of the Karnatic vidwans. We are proud and happy to welcome...

Apart & Pizza Excess w Beches Brew from TISS in Mumbai 20160112

2016-07-01 Joyful versions of Apart and Pizza Excess from our Beches Indian Brew tour, recorded at Tata Institute of...

Mridangam great K. U. Jayachandra Rao in Beches Indian Brew

2016-06-13 He is one of the stalwarts in the world of Indian rhythm today and regularly performs with all...

”Kanjira Man” with Beches Indian Brew in October

2016-06-09 B. Shree Sundarkumar is one of the leading Kanjira artists in the world of Rhythm music. Having entered...

Shree Sundarkumar, ”Kanjira Man”

2016-06-02 B. Shree Sundarkumar is one of the leading Kanjira artists in the world of Rhythm music. Having entered...

K. U. Jayachandra Rao, mridangam

2016-06-02 He is one of the stalwarts in the world of Indian rhythm today and regularly performs with all...

Senior Master Drummer Doe Kushiator (Ghana) joins Beches Indian Brew

2016-05-31 Beches Indian Brew gets a spicy ingredient when Doe Kushiator will join for the October tour! Senior Master...

Beches Brew live @ Blue Frog, Mumbai

2016-05-31 A video by Jöns Jönsson from our gig at the Blue Frog in Mumbai on January 14, 2016....

The Akkarai Sisters will join Beches Indian Brew in October

2016-05-16 Akkarai Sisters, Akkarai Subhalakshmi and Akkarai Sornalatha, violin, voice: We are SO proud and happy that the sisters...

Akkarai Sisters

2016-05-16 Akkarai Sisters, Akkarai Subhalakshmi and Akkarai Sornalatha, violin, voice: ”The two sisters have created quite a storm in...

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...

“Jädermeister” from the India tour

2016-04-24 We are preparing some more videos from our Indian tour. In these we will focus not on the...

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...

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...

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)...

Good reviews of last years releases arrived today!

2015-03-02 The new issue of Orkesterjournalen carries very positive reviews in swedish of our albums with Thomas Jäderlund Amazing...

Nedunuri Krishnamurthy album release

2015-01-06 We are abroad at the moment, among other things handling the Nedunuri release and distribution in India. Due...

Christmas, off to India, no January deliveries etc

2014-12-15 This is the complete Christmas playlist at our site day by day during december. I will not be...

NEDUNURI KRISHNAMURTHY SIR JUST PASSED!

2014-12-06 Early morning december 8 2014, Sangeetha Kalanidhi Nedunuri Krishnamurthy passed. We were so happy to release this fantastic album...

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...

C&E on Soundcloud

2014-08-13 We have updated our Soundcloud site with free samples from all later releases. Try it when in need...

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...

A new C&E video with Karnatic Harmonium

2014-06-21 An extremely rare recording of Karnatic classical music on harmonium
 with the great Muthunathesa Bhagvatar accompanied on violin...

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...

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...

Five Hindustani Maestros

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

Country & Eastern News – may 2012

2012-05-10 Hectic days for Country & Eastern: A few days after the end of the Bible we are heavily...

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 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...