Ananda Shankar - A Life In Music (2006)

Ananda Shankar - A Life In Music (2006)

The nephew of Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar, Ananda Shankar--though never the darling of Beatles and Stones--was an excellent sitar player in his own right. On these 22 tracks, recorded between the mid-1970s and the artist's death in 1999, Shankar fuses Indian ragas with a variety of Western pop/rock styles, often incorporating funk and psychedelia into the mix, as revealed on inventive, groove-laden tracks such as "Jungle Symphony" and "Charging Tiger."

Tracklist:

CD 1:

1. Jungle Symphony 3:38
2. Dancing Drums 5:24
3. Back Home 4:39
4. The River 3:07
5. The Alien 4:09
6. Charging Tager 4:10
7. Streets of Calcutta 4:41
8. Storm 5:21
9. Renunciation 4:27
10. Cyrus 2:45
11. Missing You 4:04

CD 2:

1. Anjali 6:02
2. Radha 5:39
3. Celebration 4:35
4. Namaskar 5:18
5. Discovery of India 4:11
6. Night in the Forest 3:58
7. Universal Magic 4:09
8. Exploration 4:15
9. Gypsy 4:55
10. Indrasabha 6:16
11. Rajput Bride 5:43