Album : Ananda Shankar - A Musical Discovery of India | 1978 | HQ mp3 | Rapidshare | CD Rip

Album Info : Release Log : Ananda Shankar - A Musical Discovery of India | 1978 :
Album : A Musical Discovery of India
Artist : Ananda Shankar
Genre : Fusion, Indian Music, Funk, Psychedelic, Lounge, World,
Language : Hindi
Label : EMI India/Cloud Forest (New Zealand)
Source : CD
Year : 1978
Ripper : EAC (Secure mode) / LG HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8320B
Codec : LAME 3.97
Format : MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality : HQ
Channels : Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags : ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Resolution : 16 bits
Size : 35563 KB
Timelength :
Tracks : 07

TrackList : Ananda Shankar - A Musical Discovery of India | 1978 :

01. Namaskar
02. Hill Train
03. Kaziranga Beat
04. Akbar's Jewels
05. Brindavan Revel
06. Dawn at Varanasi
07. Discovery of India

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Review : Ananda Shankar - A Musical Discovery of India | 1978 :

OK, so everyone knows that the oft-reissued Ananda Shankar & his Music has been considered legendary since the inclusion of 'Streets of Calcutta' and 'Dancing Drums' on a Blue Note break-beat compilation. But what most people don't know is that there is plenty more material of the same caliber. Later, rarer albums like the two included on this single CD yield equally impressive music with plenty of tracks waiting to be discovered by adventurous DJs! The seven tracks on A Musical Discovery of India were included on a 45 RPM 12" made for India Tourism Development Corp., released by EMI Gramophone India in 1978. 'Kaziranga Beat' is a terrific long jam highlighting the tabla, and other tracks like 'Namaskar,' 'The Hill Train,' 'Akbar's Jewels,' and 'Brindavan Revel' all have their champions. Then came Sa-Re-Ga Machan, a funky, strange, and exotic madhouse ('Jungle King' even reprises 'Streets of Calcutta') from 1981, which may be the true masterpiece among Ananda Shankar's albums. His rarest record, it is filled to the brim with hard driving funk and trippy exotica. The material ranges from dreamy swirling instrumentals with electronics and sitar, to deep exotica with organs, flutes, tablas & string sections that will devastate you with their beauty. To most people, 'India's greatest musician' means Ravi Shankar; but it was Ravi's nephew Ananda Shankar who became the voice of modern India in all its contrasting elements. In ways never previously imagined -- much less executed by other master musicians -- he alone merged Indian and Western, classical and rock traditions; he alone merged the lyrical and the funky, the exotic and the commercial, the traditional and the progressive

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Album : Ananda Shankar - A Life In Music | 2006 | 320 kbps HQ mp3 | Rapidshare | Youtube |

Album Information : Release Log : A Life In Music :
Album : A Life In Music
Artist : Ananda Shankar
Genre : Fusion, Indian Music, Funk, Psychedelic, Lounge, World,
Language :
Label : Times Square Records
Source : CD
Year : 2006
Release Date : February 21, 2006
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 : 100431+94297 KB
Tracks : 22

Description : A Life In Music :
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 : A Life In Music :

CD1
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 Tiger - 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

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A Life In Music - Part 4/4 - 42.72 MB
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Review : A Life In Music :
There is so much to write about this great sitarist/instrumentalist, but all of a sudden i can't find much to write now! Anand Shankar was probably one of the 'pionners' of what many address it as 'fusion' music! If you have good ear for the music, i can't see how you can be disappointe by this master piece!!!

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Album : Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar and His Music | 1975 | 320 kbps HQ mp3 | Original CD Rip | Rapidshare |

Album Information : Release Log : Ananda Shankar and His Music 1975 :
Album : Ananda Shankar and his Music
Artist : Ananda Shankar (Guest Artist - Indranil Bhattacharya on sitar)
Genre : Funk, Soul, Indian Music.
Style : Psychedelic, Funk
Language :
Label : Fass Records, Spain. ( LP form EMI India )
Source : LP / CD
Year : 1975
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 / HQ mp3
Channels : Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags : ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Resolution : 16 bits
Size : 79777 KB
Timelength :
Tracks : 09

Description : Ananda Shankar and His Music 1975 :
This is a reissue of the classic 1975 LP Ananda Shankar and his Music, by Ananda Shankar. Ananda Shankar was Ravi Shankar's Nephew and was one of the first musicians to mix Indian music with western pop styles back in the 1960s.
Ananda Shankar and his Music expertly mixes 70s funky grooves with Sitar and Indian instruments and melodies. Well, it sounds like that to us anyway. Along with the fantastic up-tempo numbers, we also get treated to a few lovely tracks that are more on the chilled side. it was originally issued in India and has become one of the world's most sought-after records!

TrackList : Ananda Shankar and His Music 1975 :

Track Listing
1.Streets of Calcutta
2.Cyrus
3.The Lonely Rider
4.The River
5.Vidai (Parting)
6.Back Home
7.Dawn
8.Renunciation
9.Dancing Drums

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Review : Ananda Shankar and His Music 1975 :
Incredible Indian record !!! including 2 killer dancfloor psyché cuts " streets of calcutta " & " dancing drums " hightly recommended for rare grooves dj's. Ananda Shankar became well know in the 90's when Capitol records picked "Streets of Calcutta" and "Dancing Drums" for their Blue Note famous break beat compilation. More stuff with same caliber instrumentations on this album. Perhaps the best !
This 1975 album is a stunner -- way more open-minded than his other album for Reprise (which we've also got on reissue!), with tracks that push the funky groove a lot farther than you'd expect, swirling percussion, organ, guitar, tablas, moog, and sitar all together into an unbelievable sound that will leave you breathless!

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