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Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/12/2018
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Location
Alliance française du Bengale

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Synopsis

Deben Bhattacharya (1921–2001) was a field recordist, poet, filmmaker, musicologist and amateur ethnomusicologist, based in Calcutta and Paris. Highly influential, it would not be too bold a stretch to say that his work shaped how we listen to the world: he produced a vast number of LPs, CDs, videos and radio shows of traditional music from India, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe from 1953 until his death in 2001.

Never before published, Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road features over 4 hours of music and is Deben’s impressionistic account of a 1955 journey overland, in a converted milk delivery van, from France to India collecting and exploring music along the Desert Road from Europe into India.

With 4 CDs of recordings, photographs, Deben’s original recording notes, musical transcriptions and more. An amazing glimpse into a time long gone and essential listening for anyone interested in folk and world music traditions.

The launch of the book will be followed by a seminar on the author.

A film called <Music According To Deben Bhattacharya> , directed by Stephane Jourdain, which traces back Deben’s return to Bangladesh, the country of his origins; will be screened on the same evening.