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Artist / Album Title: ravi shankar - improvisations

Company:......[ Angel/1962       ]  Ripper:...[ Hitman-TD     ]
Date:.........[ 11/07/1999       ]  Supplier:.[ Hitman-TD     ]
Record Lenght.[ 39:36            ]  Bit.Rate:.[ 192 kBits     ]
Release Type:.[ Ethnic           ]  Size:.....[  58 megs      ]
Tracks:.......[ 06 tracks        ]  Rating:...[ 10/10         ]

Release Notes:

Ravi Shankar: Sitar / kanai Dutta: Tabla / Bud Shank: Flute
Nodu C. Mullick: Tampura / Harihar Rao: Tampura & Dholak [2]
Additional Musicians On Track 2:
Dennis Budimir: Guitar / Gary Peacock: Bass / Louis Hayes: Drums

This recording, more than any other, serves to illustrate the wide
range of ravi's musicalinterests, and includes an improvisation on the
theme music which he composed for the prize winning film pather
panchali, an experiment in combining the indian idiom with jazz.
and improvisation on a raga from the south indian system, and a long
development of one classical and the most profoundly beautiful style
of performance for the seasoned listener to indian music.

Track List:

[ 01. ravi shankar - improvisations on pather panch  ( 7:06) ]
[ 02. ravi shankar - fire night                      ( 4:36) ]
[ 03. ravi shankar - karnataki raga rageshri         ( 6:42) ]
[ 04. ravi shankar - part 1 (alap)                   ( 6:49) ]
[ 05. ravi shankar - part 2 (jor)                    (11:00) ]
[ 06. ravi shankar - part 3 (gat)                    ( 3:23) ]

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