Japanese Traditional Music: Gagaku · Buddhist Chant
Gagaku • Buddhist Chant: recorded by Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai,1941
- First restoration of rare recordings comprising a five cd series of traditional Japanese music.
World Arbiter
Dancers of Bali: Gamelan of Peliatan, 1952
Blind Lemon Jefferson: Long Lonesome Blues
Lemon's texts revealed.
- Transcription of Lemon's complete texts. In 2014 this CD was remastered for downloading that contains an additional bonus track.
Lost Sounds of the Tao
Lo Ka Ping, guqin
- The guqin was Confucius' instrument, used by scholars and nobles for self-purifiation. Lo was a Taoist priest (1896-1980) who lived in the remote lands of the New Territories behind Hong Kong, recorded by a pupil in 1970. These rare archival tapes were assembled after an extensive hunt in Hong Kong, New York, California and Taiwan.
Ancient Court Raga Traditions
Pandit Ashok Pathak, surbahar
Dances and Trances
Sufi rites and Berber music from Taroudannt, Morocco
The Roots of Gamelan
Bali 1928, New York 1941
- First reissue of the first recordings of Balinese music. The download tracks have been remastered in 2014 and also contain a bonus track recorded in Paris, 1931.