Ravi Shankar – Ravi Shankar’s Music Festival from India (1976/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:28 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
George Harrison’s legendary record label Dark Horse Records releases a brand new remaster of Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar’s 1974 Indian classic music revue Ravi Shankar’s Music Festival from India. Its presentation was the first project undertaken by the Material World Charitable Foundation, set up the previous year by ex-Beatle George Harrison. Long a champion of Indian music, Harrison also produced an eponymous studio album by the Music Festival orchestra, which was released in 1976 on his Dark Horse record label.
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Ravi Shankar – Shankar Family & Friends (Remaster) (1974/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:01 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
World-renowned Indian musician Ravi Shankar’s ‘Shankar Family & Friends’ was originally released in 1974. Produced by George Harrison, this was one of the first album releases on Dark Horse Records. Its east-meets-west musical styles puts western musicians such as Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Jim Keltner, Klaus Voorman, and Nicky Hopkins side-by-side with Indian music pioneers Alla Rakha, Ashish Khan, Shivkumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia. The album contains the first single issued on Dark Horse, ‘I Am Missing You’, featuring Lakshmi Shankar on vocals backed by a full western rock band.
Read moreRavi Shankar – India’s Master Musician (1959/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:36 minutes | 875 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
India’s Master Musician is an album by Hindustani classical musician Ravi Shankar released in March 1959. It was recorded in Hollywood, California. It was later digitally remastered and released in CD format through Angel Records, with digital remastering by Squires Productions.
Supporting musicians are Chatur Lal on tabla and Nodu Mullick on Tamboura.
Read moreRavi Shankar – Ravi Shankar’s Music Festival from India (1976/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:28 minutes | 525 MBGenre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
George Harrison’s legendary record label Dark Horse Records releases a brand new remaster of Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar’s 1974 Indian classic music revue Ravi Shankar’s Music Festival from India. Its presentation was the first project undertaken by the Material World Charitable Foundation, set up the previous year by ex-Beatle George Harrison. Long a champion of Indian music, Harrison also produced an eponymous studio album by the Music Festival orchestra, which was released in 1976 on his Dark Horse record label.
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