{"id":3490,"date":"2011-06-26T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2011-06-24T19:07:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T23:07:50","slug":"78-rpm-records-of-indian-music-the-dacca-orchestral-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/78-rpm-records-of-indian-music-the-dacca-orchestral-party\/","title":{"rendered":"78 rpm Records of Indian Music: The Dacca Orchestral Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

This enchanting ensemble is a mix of Indian and Western instruments with occasional vocals. Googling the name “Dacca Orchestral Party” yields nothing. I wonder: would you have heard this group playing in the lobby of a Grand Hotel in the 1920s?<\/p>\n

Wonderful. Surely one of the earliest pieces of East-West Fusion in existence.<\/p>\n

Raga Kafi:<\/p>\n

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The little vocal interlude is priceless.<\/p>\n

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Raga Bhairavi:<\/p>\n

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The string\/percussion section at 2:38 is timbrally fascinating. I could never have imagined such a combination; it almost recalls some of Harry Partch’s orchestrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This enchanting ensemble is a mix of Indian and Western instruments with occasional vocals. Googling the name “Dacca Orchestral Party” yields nothing. I wonder: would you have heard this group playing in the lobby of a Grand Hotel in the 1920s? Wonderful. Surely one of the earliest pieces of East-West Fusion in existence. Raga Kafi: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7,9],"tags":[931,895,932],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-indian-music","category-music","tag-musical-oddity","tag-near-genius","tag-syncretism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3491,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/3491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}