Ravi Shankar - Indias Master Musician '2020

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One of Ravi Shankars first Western recordings -- made at Londons Abbey Road
Studios in 1963 (a full two years before George Harrison was introduced to
Shankars music) and originally released in the U.S. on the tiny jazz-oriented
indie World Pacific -- Indias Master Musician makes some slight concessions
toward the untutored Western audience. The liner notes are almost teacherly in
their dry explication of Indian musical forms, and the five brief pieces (the
longest, Raga Charu Keshi, clocks in at a mere 13 and a half minutes, which by
the expansive standards of Indian classical music is downright Ramones-like in
its brevity) do little more than introduce a theme, suggest some variations, and
conclude. Yet for all that, there is no attempt here to dumb down this difficult
but rewarding music for Western ears, and the occasional resemblances to Western
musical forms, like the almost jazz-like call-and-response section between
Shankar and his sidemen, tabla player Kanai Dutt and tamboura player Nodu C.
Mullick, are entirely coincidental. This is an excellent introduction not only
to Ravi Shankar, but to Indian classical music in general.

01. Ravi Shankar - Kafi-Holi (Spring Festival Of Colors) (Remastered) (7:14)
02. Ravi Shankar - Dhun (Folk Airs) (Remastered) (5:53)
03. Ravi Shankar - Mishra Piloo (Remastered) (10:37)
04. Ravi Shankar - Raga Puriya Dhanashri (Remastered) (11:23)
05. Ravi Shankar - Raga Charu Keshi (Remastered) (13:30)

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