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Archive for October 27th, 2007

Classic ISKCON Tapes #1 – Srila Prabhupada Leads Kirtan

In the late 70’s and early 80s, ISKCON released a 20 tape series of kirtans and bhajans. As far as I know, none of these were released on any of the classic ISKCON records. Neither have they been released to CD.

But I have them all and hope to flood you with them at least once a week.

I don’t know the history of them and most don’t have covers or any production credits or dates. So it’s just the music. Ok? Ok!

Some caveats: The sound quality isn’t great. These are from old tapes recorded by devotees. Quality wasn’t a priority. Also, they’re MP3s encoded at 128kbs – not the highest quality. But listenable.

I’m not going to give you a track-by-track review on most of them. I wont do previews either. These are just tapes.

I’ll try to post one every Saturday. This is in addition to the Classic ISKCON Vinyl series that will show up on every Ekadasi.

The first one is…


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KT-01 Srila Prabhupada Leads Kirtan
01 – Srila Prabhupada – Samsara Dava Part I (Kirtana #1)
02 – Srila Prabhupada – Samsara Dava Part II (Kirtana #2)
03 – Srila Prabhupada – Govinda Jaya Jaya Part I (Kirtana #3)
04 – Srila Prabhupada – Govinda Jaya Jaya Part II (Kirtana #4)
05 – Srila Prabhupada – Samsara Dava (Kirtana #5)
06 – Srila Prabhupada – Govinda Jaya Jaya (Kirtana #6)

Since the first one is all Srila Prabhupada, there’s a chance that it was released on CD. I don’t know for sure if it has been. If anyone knows, tell me.

Also, like the Classic ISKCON Vinyl, these will only be up for a short while. Two weeks at most. And then I’ll take them down to make room for others. If anyone else would like to host them, let me know I’ll link to you.

Here’s a list of all the tapes…

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