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A Disappointing French Production

12/07/2002

(2 out of 5 stars)

"France is a European hot bed for Indian classical music, with labels such as Makar Records and Radio France's Ocora. Here is Arion, a less meticulate record company, with a DK Pattamal recordind from 1977.The Pattamal is of course one of the very top names, and the performance is g-o-o-d. Unfortunately, the CD is not. First of all, nothing is listed on the CD (the songs are Shastry's "Birana Varalicci", Jayachamaraja Wadiyer's "Shri Jalandharam", Tiruvettiyur Tyagiyer's "Sami Dayajuda" and Saint Tyagaraja's "Sujana Jivana Rama"), and what basic information is listed is spelt wrong. One can live with that, even though it is pathetic, but what one simply cannot accept is that the tracks FADE OUT as if this was Samantha Fox. In one song, you can even hear the last note at the very end of the fade. This is unforgivable and should not be encouraged by more than one star; however, since this is after all DK Pattamal, I have to put two stars. With a proper production it would have been four or five."