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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Ravi Shankar/Ali Akbar Khan |
| Record Label: |
Fantasy Records (USA) |
| Genre: |
International |
| Subgenre: |
Indian Classic Music |
| Release Date: |
July 17, 1990 |
| Album Duration: |
78m:00s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Raga Palas Kafi
2. Raga Bilashkani Todi
3. Raga Ramdas Malhar
4. Raga Malika |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Personnel includes: Ravi Shankar (sitar); Ali Akbar Khan (sarod); Kanall Dutta (tabla); Nodu C. Mullick, Ashish Kumar (tamboura). Tracks 1-2 originally released as "The Master Musicians of India" on Prestige (1078); tracks 3-4 released as "The Soul Of Indian Music" on Prestige (7403). Includes liner notes by Jonathan Cott. Sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar is one of the most influential musical figures of the 20th century, having influenced the Beatles, John Coltrane, Philip Glass, Collin Walcott, and John McLaughlin, along with generations of Indian folk and classical musicians. He is one of the acknowledged masters of the raga, the deeply meditational, extended form of instrumental Indian music. Based in Hindu spiritual ritual, raga is a cyclic, trance-inducing style of music that bears an element of improvisation. This CD is a coupling of two complete albums from the mid-'60s, featuring two of the legendary masters of Indian music, Shankar and sarod player Ali Akbar Khan. It is easy to see why Sh... |
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