Ravi Shankar - Meditative Mind '2020

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Ravi Shankar KBE (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈrobi ˈʃɔŋkor]; born
Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, spelled Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury in Sanskrit; 7
April 1920 – 11 December 2012), whose name is often preceded by the title
Pandit (Master) and Sitar maestro, was an Indian musician and a composer of
Hindustani classical music. He was the best-known proponent of the sitar in the
second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout
the world. Shankar was awarded Indias highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna,
in 1999.

Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin family in India, and spent his youth as a
dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday
Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician
Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a
composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music
director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical
music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching,
performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles
guitarist George Harrison. His influence on the latter helped popularize the use
of Indian instruments in pop music in the latter half of the 1960s. Shankar
engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra, and
toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a
nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India.
He continued to perform until the end of his life.

Tracklist:
01. Ravi Shankar - Kafi-Holi (Spring Festival of Colors) (7:08)
02. Ravi Shankar - Fire Night (4:35)
03. Ravi Shankar - Raga Simhendra Madhyamam (10:57)
04. Ravi Shankar - Mishra Piloo, in Thumbri Style (10:35)
05. Ravi Shankar - Dhun (Folk Airs) (5:48)
06. Ravi Shankar - Dhun Kafi (Spring Season (12:37)
07. Ravi Shankar - Madhuvanti (18:33)
08. Ravi Shankar - Raga Jog (28:21)
09. Ravi Shankar - Raga Hamsaohwani (Evening Raga) (9:17)
10. Ravi Shankar - Raga Charu Keshi (13:36)
11. Ravi Shankar - Karnataki (6:43)
12. Ravi Shankar - Raga Ahir Bhairav (15:37)
13. Ravi Shankar - Raga Puriya Dhanashri (11:21)
14. Ravi Shankar - Raga Ramkali (Morning Raga) (24:53)
15. Ravi Shankar - Raga Rageshri, Pt. 1 (Alap) (6:50)
16. Ravi Shankar - Raga Rageshri, Pt. 2 (Jor) (11:01)
17. Ravi Shankar - Raga Rageshri, Pt. 3 (Gat) (3:24)
18. Ravi Shankar - Improvisations on the Theme Music from Pather Panchali (7:07)
19. Ravi Shankar - Dhun in Mishra Mand (24:44)

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