Author Archives: Pieter de Rooij

About Pieter de Rooij

my name: Pieter de Rooij born: december 1963 academic studies: Anthropology, Ethnomusicology (Masters degree in Social Anthropology in 1988, University of Amsterdam) after finishing university I was also educated in music library work work: trenching and digging in the audio-archives of Radio Netherlands other activities: regular producer of world music programmes for dutch radiostation De Concertzender ; writer on (world) music and cd-reviewer for world music magazine ‘Mixed’ ; music consultant special interests in music: Indian classical (raga)music ; world music ; opera ; western classical music ; jazz ; film music other special interests: literature and films purpose of my blog: to inform you about my activities concerned with (world) music and -occassionally- other obsessive matters I'd love to hear from you. I f you want to respond or share your views leave a reply or send me an email: info@tonalties.nl

Great recording of Kesarbai Kerkar travelling through space with the Voyager Spacecraft

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Morning raga Bhairavi, beautifully sung by Keserbai Kerkar. It’s one of the recordings travelling through space with the Voyager Spacecraft, launched in 1977. I once made a two part-special for the Concertzender concerned with this idea of a musical space message. All the Voyager music was broadcasted in part 1. Part 2 featured my own musical space message: great music from all over the world, representing basic human emotions. I didn’t receive any alien response 🙂

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Raga Special in World Minerals (April 29th, 2011) on The CONCERTZENDER

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An hour of beautiful raga music by Ravi Shankar (sitar), Parthasarathy Desikan (vocal), Jayanthi Kumaresh (veena) and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (slide guitar/mohan veena), in Wereldmineralen, Friday April 29th. 2011, 19.00-20.00 (dutch time), a broadcast I’ve produced for The Concertzender.

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Wonderful music of the Zoe Rahman Trio

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Below four pictures I took of pianist/keyboardplayer Zoe Rahman at Roots Open Air 2009 in Amsterdam, while she was playing with the band of Natacha Atlas. Only recently I found out she’s also a very good jazz pianist, making her own music, beautiful music! She’s Irish with Bengali cultural and family roots, a mixed background which fits her nicely – I think – in Natacha Atlas’s band 🙂 Below also three YouTube-videos of the Zoe Rahman Trio, featuring in two of the clips Zoe’s brother Idris, who does the beautiful sensuous clarinet playing.


(Zoe Rahman / photo: Pieter de Rooij)


(Zoe Rahman / photo: Pieter de Rooij)


(Zoe Rahman / photo: Pieter de Rooij)


(Zoe Rahman / photo: Pieter de Rooij)

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7 April 2011: Happy Birthday, Ravi Shankar !

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Oceanic – Part 1, a beautiful, atmospheric track of Anoushka playing a sitar-duet with her father. Really touching. When I publish this message, it’s 7 April 2011, Ravi Shankar’s 91st birthday. Happy Birthday, Pandit ! 🙂

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