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Ananda Shankar-Ananda Shankar And His Music
-'75 PSYCH FUNK-
NEW CD
FES003-1
Originally released in 1975.
Electronic, Folk, World, & Country, Funk / Soul
Psychedelic, Experimental
"This genre-busting 1975 album seamlessly fuses the traditional music of Ananda Shankar s homeland, India, with the heavy psych-funk of the West, where hed spent a good deal of time. Featuring the dancefloor killers Streets Of Calcutta and Dancing Drums alongside a handful of mellower tracks, the original, India-only LP has long been one of the worlds most sought-after records. Psychedelic breaks and beats at their most beautiful, and for the first time on CD." Thats the description from the label one-sheet, but that doesnt tell you the half of it-this is not pseudo-lounge sitar pop/psych like his oft-reissued Reprise LP, with its covers of Jumpin jack Flash etc. no, no, no, for this little disc has got some serious groove to it, with sitar/funk action, and interesting compositions that make this recording much more than the sum of its exotic parts
Tracklist
1 Streets Of Calcutta 4:32
2 Cyrus 2:42
3 The Lonely Rider 2:11
4 The River 3:03
5 Vidai (Parting) 2:51
6 Back Home 4:33
7 Dawn 11:37
8 Renunciation 4:19
9 Dancing Drums 5:18
Artwork By [Colour Transparency], Photography – Shubhash Nandy, Soumitra Sinha
Composed By, Conductor – Ananda Shankar
Performer – Alok Nath Dey, Anto Menezes, Ashish Gupta, Cyrus Tata, Douglas Barlow, Gopeswar Dutt, Nalu Mitra, Prasanta Dhar, Rabin Das, Ramesh Misra, Robin Ghosh, Soumen Dey, Souren Ghosh, Soven Dey, Swapan Sen, Ujjal Chatterjee, Y. S. Moolky
Sitar [Guest Artiste] – Indranil Bhattacharya
Vocals – Gopa Ganguli, Kabita Naandi, Mamata Shankar, Nomita Roy