These recordings are from a period not long after his teacher’s death. He was then 26-27 years old. Puriya Dhanashree (both the vilambit and drut compositions are by his teacher’s father, the great Pandit Lakshman Prasad Jaipurwale) and Jog Bahar (again, these majestic composition are Lakshman Prasad’s) were recorded in a studio in Calcutta in 1989. He was then a doctoral student in Oxford; he had come to Calcutta in the winter – his parents then had just moved to the city. The recording never saw the light of day. It has been restored from an old cassette. He had also by then finished writing his first novel and was waiting to see if it would be published. In 1994, he would record a longer version of Jog Bahaar, complete with the tarana in ektaal. This recording is a part of Classics from the Kunwar Shyam Gharana.

The songs that follow are from a performance at the Tejpal Auditorium, Bombay, in June 1988. The Meera bhajan in Malkauns is traditional. The composition in Sughrai Malhar was by Kunwar Shyam. The tune of the second Meera bhajan is one that he composed himself, basing on the ragas Miyan Malhar and Gaud Malhar.

He picked up the tappa by Tagore from a home recording by his cousin, the singer Subha Prasad Nandi Majumdar.