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Sourced from the Original Master Tapes and Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies: Mobile Fidelity's 180g Vinyl LP of 1974 Album Features Remarkable Tonalities, Airiness, and Aura. 1\/4' \/ 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe. Out of print as a standalone release for decades since it's original 1974 release, and produced by George Harrison, Shankar Family \u0026amp; Friends is an almost-forgotten masterwork - an emotional and sonic pact on which two like-minded souls unite musical styles, cultures, and sounds in wondrous fashion. It's also the second album Harrison's Dark Horse Records released, setting the tone for the label and precedent for a friendship that lasted the remainder of Harrison's life. Sourced from the original analog tapes, pressed at RTI, and limited to 3,000 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's 180g LP presents the album in restored sound that illustrates the beauty of the playing, compositions, and chemistry. This reissue makes available on vinyl a title that hasn't been on LP since 1975. Yet it does so much more in the transparent way it showcases the textures, spiritualism, and breadth of compositions primarily recorded by Harrison, Shankar, and an array of distinguished guests at A\u0026amp;M Studios. The inviting aura, generous spaciousness, and well-defined tonalities on this pressing combine to take the music to transcendent heights. Then there's the brilliant playing itself. Memorable contributions from an A-list of American and English musicians - Ringo Starr (drums), David Bromberg (electric guitar), Billy Preston (organ), Nicky Hopkins (piano), Jim Keltner (drums), Klaus Voorman (bass), Robert Margouleff (Moog), Malcolm Cecil (Moog), Tom Scott (saxophone) included - add to the richness of a set that melds Eastern and Western traditions. These 'names' mesh with a host of Indian virtuosos - Alla Rakha, Ashish Khan, Kamala Chakravarty, Hariprasad Chaurasia included - who turn Shankar Family \u0026amp; Friends into a journey laced with percussive, string, and vocal components that aren't soon forgotten.\u003cbr\u003eTracks\u003cbr\u003e1 1. I Am Missing You\u003cbr\u003e2 2. Kahan Gayelava Shyam Salone\u003cbr\u003e3 3. Supane Me Aye Preetam Sainya\u003cbr\u003e4 4. I Am Missing You (Reprise)\u003cbr\u003e5 5. Jaya Jagadish Hare Dream, Nightmare \u0026amp; Dawn (Music for a Ballet):\u003cbr\u003e6 6. Overture\u003cbr\u003e7 7. Festivity \u0026amp; Joy\u003cbr\u003e8 8. Love-Dance Ecstasy\u003cbr\u003e9 9. Lust (Raga Chandrakauns)\u003cbr\u003e10 10. Dispute \u0026amp; Violence\u003cbr\u003e11 11. Disillusionment \u0026amp; Frustration\u003cbr\u003e12 12. Despair \u0026amp; Sorrow (Raga Marwa)\u003cbr\u003e13 13. Awakening\u003cbr\u003e14 14. 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As a performer, composer, teacher and writer, Ravi Shankar is renowned throughout the world for his pioneering work in bringing Indian music to the West. Shankar has been a cultural influence in the West for more than four decades as India's most recognized and esteemed musical ambassador.\"If East has to meet West, then few musicians have achieved it with such open joy as Ravi Shankar.\" The GuardianThis album features Ravi Shankar's first Concerto for sitar, commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra in 1970; it was the first album Andr̩ Previn recorded for EMI Classics (now Warner Classics), in 1971. The work was premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall on 28 January 1971 and sets a sitar recital of four ragas (including one by Ravi Shankar's guru Allauddin Khan, adapted for the concerto) across four movements and within the grand sweep of a full western orchestra.\"The first Concerto was really a snapshot of a moment in history. It was the first time we were seeing raga music across an orchestral arrangement, creating a composite soundscape.\" Anoushka Shankar (Ravi's daughter)\"Shankar's concerto is a compelling, almost textbook-ideal adaptation of one musical tradition into another. It's melodies and rhythms come from raga, and the techniques of development also rely on Indian tradition, including sections for improvisation by the soloist. But Shankar uses the Western orchestra with imagination. Sometimes he looks for equivalents: Bongos serve as tabla; two harps play scales, echoing the sitar; the strings fill in the tambura's drone. Sometimes he creates new effects, as in a stunning lyrical horn solo or the wonderful wind and percussion writing.\" Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConcerto for Sitar and Orchestra No. 1: I. 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Ever the teacher, Shankar doesn’t just perform in his usual stellar fashion, but edifies the audience by walking them through the instruments, their construction and musical capacities, as well as the melodic and rhythmic forms of raga. Shankar displays the ease at which can be both virtuosic musician, ushering listeners on flights of artistic imagination, and intrepid educator, imparting the modalities and forms behind the beauty of the four-thousand-year-old tradition of Indian classical music. Music recorded January 14, 1971 at the Falkoner Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark.\n\n1)    Copenhagen Introduction        0:37\r 2)    Copenhagen Janasanmodini Rupak 18:02\r 3)    Copenhagen Commentary from the Maestro 6:07\r 4)    Copenhagen Desh Teental 26:44\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JITRE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: World Music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 4\/24\/20\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ravi Shankar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45519888318662,"sku":"Z0WCJT-GMRV-O5","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/8085\/0374\/files\/ravi-shankar-nine-decades-vol-7-live-in-copenhagen_jx6wu.jpg?v=1770498577"},{"product_id":"nine-decades-vol-6-dutch-india-airwaves-cd","title":"Nine Decades Vol. 6: Dutch-India Airwaves [CD]","description":"On May 27, 1957 Ravi Shankar (sitar), Chatur Lal (tabla) and Nodu Mallick (tanpura) performed in Amsterdam at the Concertgebouw. 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The CD version presents the previously unheard, 2 hour concert in its entirety, over an hour of material not featured on the vinyl edition!\r\nPandit Ravi Shankar was a sitar master and pioneer; widely credited with popularizing sitar and Indian classical music in the West. Through his association with George Harrison, he also popularized the benefit concert with Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. Earlier that same year, Ravi Shankar performed a morning concert in his home on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California with Harrison in attendance. 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