Karnatic

Records


Posts

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

Happy New Year!

2019-12-30 We are presently visiting Chennai during the season to enjoy the music and do some recordings. I created...

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...

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...

Akkarai Sisters will be back in October

2018-07-26 We are extremely happy to have Akkarai Sisters with Jayachandra Rao and Shreesundarkumar back in October 2018 for...

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...

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,...

No Grammy for Country & Eastern – but……………….

2017-12-16 Two of our albums are on this year's 10 best albums by our favourite (of course!) Swedish music...

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.

“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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

“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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Our November e-mail newsletters

2014-11-02 Info about our 2014 releases and release concerts: Here is the english e-mail: http://www.countryandeastern.se/category/2014-november-eng/ och den svenska e-posten: http://www.countryandeastern.se/category/newsletter/2014-november-swe/ If you...

Four new C&E releases coming up! – October 2014 Newsletter

2014-10-19 All of the Country & Eastern releases in 2014 arrive in November this year. One great jazz album,...

Four new C&E Releases coming up! – October 2014 Newsletter

2014-10-19 All of the Country & Eastern releases in 2014 arrive in November this year. One great jazz album,...

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...

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...

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...