Indian Tuesday
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Album:A Life in Music
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with Ananda (nephew of Ravi) Shankar (1942-1999), who weas a sitar wizard in his own right, His most successful LP, merging sitars, tablas and synthesisers, was released in 1975 by the imaginatively named Gramophone Company of India. The LP itself was titled (with equal inspiration) "Ananda Shankar and Friends". This tune was rediscovered and reissued on a Blue Note "rare groove" comp in 1996, and I believe the whole album was re-releassed as a CD about three years back. this is generally considered to be one of the standout tracks. It would be another fifteen years before Mungal Patasar and Pantar did something similar in Trinidad
Comments (4)
thanks a lot of posting this!
This track is so rich with potential samples. The Dust Brothers could easily make a whole album with this. Thanks for making my day that much groovier.
I know that Ravi Shankar was interested in bringing Eastern music to the West, and that he was also interested in merging the culture's musically. But everything I've heard from Ravi remains pretty respectful of traditional Indian ragas. So it surprises me a little that Ravi's own son would have gone so far over to the West with this funky, squelchy number.
Sorry, Ananda was Ravi's nephew. He was trainded by a sitar master in Varanasi, then moved to Los Angeles when he was about 26 or 27. He cut an LP for reprise - I see that his cover of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" has been posted on here before.
I have also posted some Mungal Patasar, but that was during the tricky period, when posts here were regularly sacrificed in the blazing fires of the MOG-god, so you'll have to search my posts one by one to find it...
This is phenomenal, a thousand times better than that version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash." A thousand times better than almost anything, in fact....
That cover of "JJF" really is unlistenable - an example of how misguided some record companies used to be when faced with music from outwith their own narrow fields of expertise. No doubt it was thought at the time to be really "authentic", but to my ears it's a failed experiment