G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up – 12/25/25
I check out an album by Ananda Shankar. For Throwback Thursday I revisit a Bobby Brown album.
Favorite Videos include live performances by Hamano Haruko, Milena, and more!
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Ananda Shankar:
🎵 Jumpin' Jack Flash
https://libraryofsoundgrooves.bandcamp.com/track/jumpin-jack-flash
from the album What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves 1967–1977
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Ananda Shankar:
🎵 Dancing Drums
https://thejazzbox.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-drums
https://open.spotify.com/track/310jHuTYxc2WAsQtHRtPiF
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from the album Blue Juice∶ Squeeze․․․
Ananda Shankar and His Music, released on EMI India in 1975.
"...Opener 'Streets Of Calcutta' has been covered several times (most recently by japanese wizards Kikagaku Moyo) and is still regarded as an east/west hybrid manifesto. Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 – 26 March 1999) was an Indian musician, singer, and composer best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to dancer and choreographer Tanusree Shankar. In the late 1960s, Shankar travelled to Los Angeles, where he played with many contemporary musicians including Jimi Hendrix. ...Returning to India in the early 1970s, Shankar continued to experiment musically and in 1975 released his most critically acclaimed album, Ananda Shankar and His Music, a jazz-funk mix of Eastern sitar, Western rock guitar, tabla and mridangam, drums and Moog synthesizers." - Soundohm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpJK6TQi-70&list=PLQrO-C6odG9YSZhHs9KqbfaQ7cCCf0wrJ&index=1
Ananda Shankar is the debut album by the Indian musician Ananda Shankar, the son of dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar and the nephew of the Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar. It was released in 1970 on the Reprise record label. The album fuses Indian music with Western rock and electronic music, and was among the first works in the rock genre by an Indian musician. Consisting mainly of instrumental recordings featuring sitar and Moog synthesizer..
Ananda Shankar followed a series of sitar-based releases by artists hoping to capitalise on the mid-1960s raga rock trend. Initially conceived as a collaboration with guitarist Jimi Hendrix, it was instead recorded in Los Angeles by Shankar with contributors such as synthesizer exponent Paul Lewinson... - Wikipedia
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Ananda Shankar:
🎵 Jumpin' Jack Flash
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Ananda Shankar:
🎵 Jumpin’ Jack Flash
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