Album : Walking On - "The Ananda Shankar Experience and State of Bengal" | 2000 | 320 kbps HQ mp3 | Rapidshare | |

Album Information : Release Log : Walking On :
Album : Walking On - "The Ananda Shankar Experience and State of Bengal"
Artist : Ananda Shankar, State Of Bengal
Genre : Fusion
Language :
Label : EMI
Source : CD
Year : February 29, 2000
Ripper : EAC (Secure mode) / LG HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8320B
Codec : LAME 3.97
Format : MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality : avg. bitrate: kbps
Channels : Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags : ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Resolution : 16 bits
Size : 100697 KB
Timelength :
Tracks : 11

Description : Walking On :
Ananda Shankar: illustrious cult figure in the secret history of pop, 60s Indo-funk pioneer, sitarist who jammed with Hendrix. In 1999, he was sought out by London DJ State of Bengal, whose mixing Indian classical music with breakbeats, hip-hop and tabla rhythms perfectly complemented Ananda's distinctive sound - for this gloriously zany, beat-laden collaboration, Shankar's final studio recording.

TrackList : Walking On :

1. Walking On 4:56
2. Tori 8:15
3. Pluck 6:39
4. Alma Ata 4:59
5. Jungle Symphony (Live) 3:38
6. Betelnutters 6:20
7. Tanusree 6:08
8. Throw Down 5:29
9. Love And Passion 6:12
10. Reverse 6:50
11. Streets Of Calcutta (Live) 4.48

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Review : Walking On :

Ananda Shankar Experience & State Of Bengal: Ananda Shankar (sitar); Uday Kumar Dey (vocals, flute); Matt Mars (electric guitar, Moog bass); Dr. Gopal Shankar Misra (vichitra veena); Netai Lai Chakraborty (keyboards, percussion, programming); Sam Saifullah Zaman (bass, electronic drums, percussion); Keith York (drums); Mohinder Singh (tabla); Pandit Dinesh (percussion).
While the late sitarist Ananda Shankar (nephew of famed Ravi Shankar) may be best known for his cover of the Stones' classic "Jumpin' Jack Flash," Sam Zaman, member and producer of electronica outfit State of Bengal, showcases Shankar's many other achivements on the 2000's WALKING ON, which was released soon after Shanker's untimely death. Overall, this album is a testament to the ongoing marriage of traditional Eastern sounds with Western experimentation as Shankar's masterful sitar flows psychedelically through beats laid out by the contemporary Indian club mavens.
Recorded in July 1998. Includes liner notes by Alan James.CMJ (2/28/00, p.25) - "...fuses traditional Indian pop music with modern day electronica....Indo-funk grooves and traditional percussion converge with mechanized breakbeats....This pan-cultural musical event makes for one hip album."
JazzTimes (8/00, p.142) - "...[It] will surprise you...from the title tune's wicked frisson of ol' time Ganges River Delta slide sitar, hip-hop beats, and bouncing tablas...[to] surreal evocations of '70s Hollywood/Bollywood B-movies themes..."
Loathe as anyone should be to reinforce vapid cultural clichés, nothing other than shagadelic truly describes this collaboration between pop sitar player Ananda Shankar (nephew of Ravi) and Sam Zaman, the musician and producer known as State of Bengal. Walking On is a sonic journey back to a time when the sitar's sound automatically signified "psychedelic," a time when composer John Barry's sassy film themes were the ne plus ultra of bachelor-pad sophistication. Shankar (who died shortly after completing the album) plays surf sitar, rock sitar, EZ-listening sitar, and German soundtrack sitar (fans of high-speed jazz-rock sitar, however, are directed to Ashwin Batish). Although Shankar's playing sometimes sounds at odds with Zaman's techno beats, the two make a convincing case for "the '90s is the '60s upside down" argument. -Richard Gehr

Related Links : Walking On :
Ananda Shankar | Wikipedia
Ananda Shankar | Facebook

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