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Welcome to the Raga Records site. You'll find hundreds of photos, articles, interviews, sound samples. Artists include Moinuddin and Aminuddin Dagar, Nikhil Banerjee, Manilal Nag, Buddhadev Das Gupta, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Wasifuddin Dagar, Nayan Ghosh.

Some full-length mp3 files are available for free downloading on our mp3 site (link on navigation list at left).

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All Raga Records titles are (or soon will be) available for purchase as downloads from iTunes and other leading digital distribution sites. Click for links to titles available on iTunes as of April 2007.

New Release, Available Now:


Vasant Rai sarod Anand Gopal Bandopadhyay tabla: Darbari Kanada, Zilla Kafi ($14)

Please order on the Credit Card Orders page or by mail.

Lots more info: Raga 226: Vasant Rai

Check out a Vasant Rai website: http://vasantrai.com/


Raga Records producers John Wilton and Ira Landgarten receiving the Chhandayan Jyotsna Award for "exemplary attainment in Production of Recorded Music" from Vijay Kichlu at the Synod Hall, Cathedral of St. John the Divine,May 13 2006. Photo: Jack Vartoogian

Recent Releases:

Raga 225: Nikhil Banerjee, Shree Rag


Raga 224: Nayan Ghosh \\||// Raga-223: Wasifuddin Dagar



The Senior Dagars: Raga-220 \\||// 221


\\||// Z.M. Dagar vina: Raga-219 \\||// 222


Nikhil Banerjee: Manomanjari -Berkeley 1968
Celebrating Raga Records' 10th Anniversary, the first CD issue of Nikhil Banerjee's Berkeley 1968 Monomanjari (CD-202). (The performance is also still available on cassette 102, one of Raga Records' first three releases.)


Entire Site is © 1996-2006 Copyright Raga Records, PO Box 635 Village Station, New York NY 10014. Fax: 212 620 5980. .email: raga@raga.com

Associated Services and Projects:

Audio Engineering and Graphic Design Services for Other Record Labels. Clients: Arbiter Records (graphic design) Rockport Records (78rpm transfer and audio restoration)
QuicktimeVR: Panoramic Virtual Reality Photography (Service for website developers)
Book Design Services (see Guardian of the Sound). email enquiries to raga@raga.com
Ira Landgarten: Indian Musician Photography
Diary and Memoirs of General Sir John Wilton, Royal Australian Army
Guardian of the Sound: A Pictorial History of Fort H.G. Wright, Fishers Island, New York
by Pierce Rafferty and John Wilton
The view from Raga Records
Documentary on Nikhil Banerjee in production (not a Raga Records project):
http://www.stevenbaigel.com/banerjeedoc/documentary.html