For the past year I've been in love with an album, well a two volume, two disc album.
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma - Antardhwani: The Song Within (Volumes I & II)
However I've only been able to stream it (and rip it) from the music program Rhapsody. I want to get the CDs but an online search reveals very, very few places where it's in stock. Some places only have one volume and not the other. It seems ridiculous to me because this album is of such high quality, such fine art, that it does not deserve this neglect at all. The album is a performance, namely by Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (santoor) and Zakir Hussein (tabla) of Shivkumar's own raga called Antardhwani. Shivkumar is a beautiful person and also a very spiritual person. Antardhwani is a very meditative and beautiful piece that truly stirs my soul. It is the album I return to when I feel I have slipped and need to rise again to heights I once reigned from. Then, when I again appreciate its beauty, I know I have returned.
I want the CD (or vinyl, if it exists, that would blow my mind) so bad!!!
I'm not a big record collector so I don't know any stores (and in fact there are no real record stores in my immediate area) or how people usually track down releases that barely get any promotion or whatever.
Any good advice on how I can track this thing down? A Google search reveals a few online sellers as I mentioned but they're in India and another in Australia. I want the album but I don't have enormous amounts of cash to pay for it. Amazon didn't have it in stock last time I checked.
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