Classic ISKCON Vinyl – Hare Krsna Festival 7″ (HKR-2002)
Two records in three days! Maybe I’ll throw Hare Krsna Records’s third 7″ up tomorrow. Maybe…. maybe Friday….
Hare Krsna Festival
Hare Krsna Records
HKR-2002
The second 7″ released by Hare Krsna Records features two songs, both by male devotees.
“Vande Ham” kicks off the record. A devotee named Avinas Chandra sings this slow and stirring rendition of a classic. There’s a mrdanga in the left channel as kartals and a harmonium fill both. The vocals are mostly on the right. This is a really a very beautiful version.
Hansadutta dasa (who was largely responsible for the vast majority of the 70s ISKCON records) sings at us on the b-side. “Hare Krsna Kirtana” is, to me, a little off-putting. Hansadutta’s voice is nice, but he’s loud and when the assembled devotees are responding, he’s often singing “Haribol!” and “Chant the Holy Name!” over them. He does this throughout.
Side A
Vande Ham
Side B
Hare Krsna Kirtana
The copy that I own is in pretty OK shape. Side B took a while to clean up and a lot of the pops were very bassy, so it was hard to get rid of them without damaging the music. Most are completely gone, but a few remain. Again, the source recordings for both sides leave a bit to be desired. But also like the last Hare Krsna Records 7″, this one is very listenable. Especially Side A.
This 7″ is available as high quality mp3s and as “lossless” FLAC files. For most of you, the MP3 at 320kbps will be more than sufficient.
Samples of the songs are available in the comments.
Click here to download the 7″ in one zip file! (23 MB)
Download the FLAC files here.
Technical Information:
Media Used:
Vinyl 7″ from my personal collection.
Hardware Used:
Turntable: Audio Technica PL-120A
Cartridge: ATP-2XN (Stock)
TCC TC-750LC Audiophile Phono Preamp
Soundcard: Roland Edirol UA-1EX USB external soundcard
Software Used:
Audacity 1.3.7 on Linux Mint 7
-Digital recording from soundcard
-Editing and splitting of tracks
Gnome Wave Cleaner 0.21-10
-Manual and automatic click/pop removal
SoundConverter 1.4.1
-Converted WAV to 320kbps MP3 and FLAC
Artwork Scanned from Original @ 300 dpi with XSane .996
Edited and Restored Using GIMP Image Editor 2.6.6
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11/04/2009 at 9:53 am
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Vande Ham
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Hare Krsna Kirtan
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11/06/2009 at 1:34 pm
I’m loving Avinas Chandra!
I’ve never heard any of these recordings before. Many thanks and dandavats for your hard work!
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eric Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Thanks! I’m merely pushing buttons. I really dig his voice too. A lot of what I have (and will post) has never been officially rereleased by ISKCON (or anyone, for that matter). It’s doubtful that they will be. I’m just glad that I can both collect and post them.
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11/11/2009 at 2:38 pm
Hare Krsna,
I put a recording on my website from 1980 with Avinas Chandra playing the karatalas.
It`s called Narada Munis Travelling Sankirtan Party
http://www.triskell-online.de/index.php?id=203
hope you enjoy, hari bol
peter
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eric Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Peter,
Thanks! I’ll download that shortly, but I also noticed that you’ll be upping Hare Krsna Festival Part I. Tell me, are you only collecting records that I don’t have? I’m getting a bit jealous!
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11/11/2009 at 4:53 pm
hi Eric,
why shall I put records in the net that you already present? I have hundreds of records digitally preserved, but a lot can`t be presented due to copyright problems. So we will see what comes next. I will bring Benediction Moon online and I have found infos about the connection to George Harrison. So keep visiting my site!
hari bol
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eric Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I’m just giving you a hard time.
I’ve got Benediction Moon. Isn’t the traditional stuff from previously released records? I can’t remember.
As for putting up records, if you’d like send me the wav files, I can clean them up a bit and host them on my site. I wouldn’t mind that at all.
haribol!
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12/23/2009 at 11:18 am
I just found the original 4-page INLETT that was included to this single release. I will send you via email attache later today.
hari bol,
Peter
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Hrimati dasi Reply:
December 21st, 2010 at 7:17 am
Hi, I would also like to see that…Peter
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Peter Reply:
December 25th, 2010 at 5:28 am
haribol,
just send it to your mailbox
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