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Artist: Shankar Family And Friends Title: Shankar Family And Friends Label: Dark Horse Country: International Catalogue: DH0010 / 4050538713152 Barcode: 4050538713152 Date: 14 Jul 2023 Format: Special Edition Genre: World Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  3 Own, 1 Wants Price Guide: $25 » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
Side One - Songs On Lord Krishna
A1	Shankar Family And Friends	I Am Missing You	Ravi Shankar	Rate
A2	Shankar Family And Friends	Karān Gayelavā Shyām Saloné	Ravi Shankar	Rate
A3	Shankar Family And Friends	Supané Mé Āyé Preetam Sainyā	Ravi Shankar	Rate
A4	Shankar Family And Friends	I Am Missing You (Reprise)	Ravi Shankar	Rate
A5	Shankar Family And Friends	Jaya Jagadish Haré	Ravi Shankar	Rate
Side Two - Dream, Nightmare And Dawn: Music For A Ballet
B1	Shankar Family And Friends	Overture	Ravi Shankar	Rate
Part One. Dream
B2	Shankar Family And Friends	Festivity And Joy	Ravi Shankar	Rate
B3	Shankar Family And Friends	Love - Dance Ecstasy	Ravi Shankar	Rate
Part Two. Nightmare
B4	Shankar Family And Friends	Lust (Rāga Chandrakauns)	Ravi Shankar	Rate
B5	Shankar Family And Friends	Dispute And Violence	Ravi Shankar	Rate
B6	Shankar Family And Friends	Disillusionment And Frustration	Ravi Shankar	Rate
B7	Shankar Family And Friends	Despair And Sorrow (Rāga Mārwa)	Ravi Shankar	Rate
Part Three. Dawn
B8	Shankar Family And Friends	Awakening	Ravi Shankar	Rate
B9	Shankar Family And Friends	Peace And Hope (Rāga Bhatiyār)	Ravi Shankar	Rate

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Limited edition orchid vinyl.

Title: Shankar Family ॐ Friends

Produced by George Harrison.
Recording Engineer: Norman Kinney.
Re-Mix Engineer: Gary Kellgren.
Recorded at A&M Studios, Los Angeles.
Re-Mixed at the Record Plant, Los Angeles.
Remastered by Paul Hicks.

Art Direction: Fabio Nicoli.
Design: Jack Katz, Nick Marshall.
Front cover photo: Jan Steward.
Back cover photo: Kumar Shankar.

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JPGR&B SUBS 17th Jun 2023		From georgeharrison.com (www link as at 17 June 2023): Originally released in 1974 by world-renowned Indian musician Ravi Shankar, Shankar Family & Friends was a pioneering album that mixed Eastern and Western styles – fusing together Indian, pop, classical and jazz music. Produced by George Harrison, it combines Western musicians such as Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Jim Keltner, Klaus Voormann, and Nicky Hopkins side-by-side with Indian-music innovators Alla Rakha, Ashish Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, and Hariprasad Chaurasia. Under the musical direction of Shankar, the large orchestra featured on the album showcases over 30 instruments from the East and West that combined in a ground-breaking way that made it one of the first world music albums ever released. Containing the first single issued on Dark Horse, “I Am Missing You,” featuring Lakshmi Shankar on vocals backed by a full Western rock band, Shankar Family & Friends has been out of print for many years, until now. Dark Horse Records is proud to present the original album remastered at Abbey Road Studios from the original source masters by Paul Hicks (George Harrison, The Beatles, John Lennon, The Rolling Stones) and reissued for the first time on CD as a standalone release alongside an orchid color vinyl edition. Recorded at A&M Studios in Los Angeles in April 1973, Shankar Family & Friends marked the first time Harrison and Ravi had collaborated as musicians with Harrison playing acoustic and electric guitar under the name Hari Georgeson. One half of the album comprises instrumentals and songs, while the second half is a thematic ballet to a yet un-staged performance. When asked about the making of the album at the time of the original release, Shankar said: “I’ve written music for many ballets in India. But never, never in the West, with so many Western instruments. This one I did without trying to make it totally Indian at all. I thought of making something very international. That’s why you hear all sorts of sound, starting from sitar or sarod to Moog synthesizer. “The album contains almost every possible style that you can think of. For many years I was criticized by the purists, but there is much less criticism now, and even if people do it, it doesn’t bother me now. What I think of as new is just supplementing the tradition and adding new flavors – the source is always there.”

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