Classic ISKCON Tape #8 – Visnujana Swami – Aratik in New York City
After weeks of Hamsadutta, don’t you deserve some Visnujana? Why yes, I believe you do.
So here you go, a whole take of Visnujana Swami. And this is a real treat. My second favorite tape in the whole KT series (first favorite is KT-14, but we’ll get to that in a couple months).
KT-8 Visnujana Swami – Aratik in New York City
1. Visnujana Swami – Studio Recording
2. Hare Krishna Kirtan
3. Aratik in New York
4. Nrsinga Prayers
5. Hare Krishna Chant
The first side (tracks one and two) starts off with a 26 minute studio recording with Visnujana Swami at the helm. It’s really got some bass to it. Maybe it’s just the way that I mixed it from the tape, but you’re going to want to pull your bandanna down real low for this one.
Track two is pretty much just a guitar and female-led Hare Krishna bhajana. I’m not sure who the vocalist is, but Visnujana Swami is there in response. Great song and pretty heart-wrenching. I don’t usually go for the western instruments thing, but this isn’t at all bad.
Side two gives us a super awesome kirtan done over a background of aratik bells (that are possibly cowbells). This gets to be all sorts of fun at the end.
My favorite bit on this tape is this all acapella version of the Nsringa Prayers. It’s done in a call and response that sounds a lot like an old negro spiritual. This is really well done.
Probably added as filler, this two minute kirtana, also led by a woman (same women as track two?) is a bit strange in the melody department. It really sounds like something out of the 70′s (which it is). But I think I like it.
Anyway, glad to be able to bring you another edition of Classic ISKCON Tapes. Happy Saturday!
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12/15/2007 at 11:43 am
haribol prabhu, i was wondering if you have the tape of New York kirtans where Visnugada das sings Samsara prayers on one side, and vrkeswar pandit sings gurupuja on the other side? Its during gaurapurnima sometime in the 80s because they sing SDG’s pranam mantras in the kirtan!
y/s amul
amulsutaria -at- yahoo dot c o m
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12/15/2007 at 11:55 am
Hm.. I really doubt that I have that. If it wasn’t in the KT series, good chance I don’t have it. And I only have the first 20 of them. That would be a great find though.
If anyone has it, I’d love a copy!
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12/15/2007 at 2:13 pm
the download link doesn’t seem to work for me here
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12/15/2007 at 3:33 pm
divshare.com was having some cranky-time issues, but now it seems ok.
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12/15/2007 at 7:25 pm
KT-14 FTW!
The Old School is the true school!
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12/15/2007 at 9:16 pm
Don’t Fear The Reaper! More Cowbell! indeed. Grand Funk Railroad used the power of the cowbell better than anybody. Alison scored a copy of the first season of Growing Pains here and I’ve exhausted all of my witty barbs about Kirk Cameron. Mantronix for sure. It will never be Hip Hop to me, it will forever be RAP!
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12/16/2007 at 10:59 am
You say that like there’s some other school out there!
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12/16/2007 at 11:01 am
Oh wow… Growing Pains. My sister used to love that show. I did too, but she loved it in ways that are now family secrets!
I don’t know where Mantronix came from… but they were like rap’s answer to Information Society (a highly underrated band).
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12/18/2007 at 5:09 am
We tried yesterday to d’l- very slow and on unzipping,only two tracks came through.Winrar said the archive was corrupted,so today we’re trying to d’l through kubuntu on a computer nearer the telephone exchange where we’re seeing speeds of 100-190kb/s compared with an all time low of 11kb/s on the other computer.Mediafire is much faster.Wha’ppen?Thanks all the same.
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12/18/2007 at 7:21 am
Mediafire was randomly deleting my files. Sometimes mere hours after I uploaded them. I thought it was a glitch, but they admitted that “sometimes? they do that.
Divshare is pretty good. They seem to have a case of the slows right now, but hopefully that won’t last.
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12/18/2007 at 8:21 pm
the kirtan with vrakeswar pandit is available from (equal vision records) it’s called best of ny kirtans.
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07/31/2010 at 1:04 am
Haribol, thankyou what golden memories! thankyou so much, does any one remember a “golden avatar” label i believe,which contained a spoken description of krsnas n radhas golden boat,with kirtan following?not much to go on iknow,anyway yourve madethis ole babba happy,god bless,tarunkrishna,x
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