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sitproperly on May 27th 2007 at 11:38 am Download Music, Gaudia Vaisnava, Krishna Music, Random Life Stuff

It’s Ekadasi! Here’s another song!

Happy Ekadasi! I’ve got another song for you.

This one come from a French released LP from the mid to late 70’s called Temple Radha Krishna.

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Sounds a lot like Radha Krishna Temple, the George Harrison – produced album on Apple Records, doesn’t it? There’s even a picture of George Harrison on the back! Haha!

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It seems like devotees in the 70’s really tried to ride the “George Harrison is a devotee” thing. In my opinion it is just sort of cheap and takes away from the work that he did and the work that these devotees did on this particular album.

This is one of my favorite devotee-made LPs. It was released on Parampara Records and all of the wording is in French. The first cut is by Srila Prabhupada, the rest are by Acutyananda Swami and Bavananda, with one cut by Yogesvara and a minute or so of devotee chanting japa.

The whole album is well recorded and fun, with some quirky takes on traditional sons. I’m not sure if the Srila Prabhupada cut was made just for this album or if it was borrowed from something else to fill space.

This particular song is Kesava Kali Mala by Acyutananda Swami. It’s pretty fast paced, probably fast than I’ve heard it done before.

For those who don’t know, I’m a collector of early ISKCON records. I’ve got quite a lot. More than this:

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There are very few that I don’t have. There’s only two that I know of that are missing, though I’m assuming that there are some that I don’t yet know about. I’ve recorded most of these records to MP3 and I’m sharing them on Soulseek under the “Classic ISKCON Records” folder.

I was going to make a website for all of these records, but never got around to it. I’ll probably do it someday. It’s strange that nobody collects these things. They’re great and almost none of them have been officially released by the BBT or Archives, etc. That’s a real shame.

Well, without further adieu, here is Acyutananda Swami singing Kesava Kali Mala!
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