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, ...
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This is the other standout track from Ananda Shankar's famous 1975 sitar funk masterpiece "Ananda Shankar and Friends" - I posted "Streets of Calcutta" here last week
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This one's got it all - imagine if Cleopatra Jones was smoking hash with Mithun Chakraborty...
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Generally speaking, I'm not a "World Music" devotee. I don't know my bhangra from my baile-funk, and usually couldn't care less. With some very select exceptions, I tend to listen solely to music made by white, English speaking folks - usually angry ones. I'm not proud of that, necessarily, but I simply don't get as excited about Afro-Cuban rhythms or traditional indigenous folk music in the sa...
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If you thought Dave Pike Set's "Mathar" was the ultimate sitar funk work out, wait till you hear what Ananda Shankar (nephew of Ravi) has to say with his version of the Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash"...
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| 2 Tori |
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| 3 Pluck |
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| 4 Alma Ata |
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| 5 Jungle Symphony [Live] |
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