Ended the weekend and welcomed the weekend with Duets by Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan, Alla Rakha, released by His Master's Voice as part of their Music from India series in 1965.

Top ragas with a blend of sitar and sarod to start the week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_IvEotyD6M

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Ended Thursday and wecolmed Friday after a walk with Curried Jazz by The Indo-British Ensemble, released on Music For Pleasure in 1969.

A late 60s blend of modern jazz and Indian rhythms -- similar to some of Joe Harriott's work with John Mayer, but a lot more obscure overall! The tracks here are all relatively long -- and build from slow rhythms on tabla, tamboura, and more conventional drums -- augmented by bits of sitar, plus more conventional jazz instrumentation from Kenny Wheeler on flugelhorn, Ray Swinfield on flute, and Leon Calvert on trumpet. The tunes here are often quite atmospheric -- stretching out in a lot of space at first, really letting things develop organically before pushing forward to find their groove! The set was composed and arranged by Victor Graham -- and titles include "Lalit", "Yaman", "Pahari", and "Bhimpalazi". - Dusty Groove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Iuy37HcxQ&list=RDk6Iuy37HcxQ&start_radio=1

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Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a swim with Ravi Shankar's Festival from India a double album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar, released on World Pacific Records in December 1968. It contains studio recordings made by a large ensemble of performers, many of whom Shankar had brought to the United States from India. Among the musicians were Shivkumar Sharma, Jitendra Abhisheki, Palghat Raghu, Lakshmi Shankar, Aashish Khan and Alla Rakha. The project presented Indian classical music in an orchestral setting, so recalling Shankar's work as musical director of All India Radio in the years before he achieved international fame as a soloist during the 1960s.

Billboard wrote: that Shankar was "test[ing] his own market power with a double disk LP, featuring a festival of haunting, hypnotizing instrumentals". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKhsfyKDKJk&list=OLAK5uy_n_hYYmtwfag772_CGqT756l9auATMgjxU

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Ended the weekend and welcomed the week after my swim with In India by Paul Horn, released on World Pacific Records in 1967.

Paul Horn in India sees him playing with tabla, tamboura, vichitra veena and violin (Satya Dev Pawar) on a series of seven traditional ragas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vp1umEg43s

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