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Discovery of India

by Ravi Shankar, Sultan Khan & Aashish Khan · from The Essential Ravi Shankar

1957Worldwide2:46Track 2

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Review by Yuki Tanaka★★★Sample

the highs are high but it sags in the middle. still coming back for “Discovery of India” though.

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Review by Tomasz W.★★★½Sample

I respect it more than I love it. “Discovery of India” is undeniable though.

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Disc 1
1
An Introduction to Indian Music
sample avg 4.0
5:26
2
Dádrá
sample avg 4.0 · Ravi Shankar, Chatur Lal & N.C. Mullick
10:28
4
Raga Des
sample avg 3.3
14:58
6
Sitar Todi
sample avg 3.6
16:11
Disc 2
2
Discovery of India
sample avg 3.4 · Ravi Shankar, Sultan Khan & Aashish Khan
2:46
4
Village Dance
sample avg 3.8 · The Ravi Shankar Project, Ravi Shankar, Frank Serafine, Lakshmi Shankar, George Harrison, Aashish Khan, Shubho Shankar, Kumar Bose, Swapan Chowdhury, Markandeya Mishra, Harhar Rao, Prodyot Sen, Patrick O'Hearn, Ric Parnell, Ray Cooper & Al Kooper
4:06
5
Raga Miniature
sample avg 2.9
4:12
6
Sandhya Raga
sample avg 4.1 · Ravi Shankar, Ashit Desai, Suresh Lalwani, Ravindra Sathe, Ratna Mala, Hemangini Desai, Kumar Bose, Tarun Bhattacharya, Ramesh Mishra, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Daya Shankar, Ronu Majumdar, Kailash Sharma, Shubhendra Rao, Parimal Sadaphal, Parthasarthy Chowdhury, Balachandra Joshi, Vikram Patil, Harihar Rao & T.R. Sundaresan
11:18
7
Memory of Uday
sample avg 3.8 · Ravi Shankar, Frank Serafine, Lakshmi Shankar, George Harrison, Aashish Khan, Shubho Shankar, Kumar Bose, Swapan Chowdhury, Markandeya Mishra, Harhar Rao, Prodyot Sen, Patrick O'Hearn, Ric Parnell, Ray Cooper & Al Kooper
3:59
8
Shanti Mantra
sample avg 2.9 · Ravi Shankar, Kumar Bose, Tarun Bhattacharya, Ramesh Mishra, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Daya Shankar, Ronu Majumdar, Kailash Sharma, Shubhendra Rao, Parimal Sadaphal, Parthasarthy Chowdhury, Balachandra Joshi, Vikram Patil, Harihar Rao, T.R. Sundaresan, Ashit Desai, Ravindra Sathe, Ratna Mala, Hemangini Desai & V. Poliansky
6:47
9
Ragas In Minor Scale
sample avg 4.0 · Ravi Shankar, Peter Gordon, Tim Baker, Barry Finclair, Mayuki Fukuhara, Regis Iandiorio, Karen Karlsud, Sergiu Schwartz, Masako Yanagita, Al Brown, Richard Sortomme, Seymour Barab, Beverly Laudrisen, Fred Zlotkin, Batia Lieberman, Joe Carver, Theresa Norris, Jack Kripl, Jon Gibson, Richard Peck, Lenny Pickett, Ron Sell, Keith O'Quinn, Alan Raph, Gorden Gottleib, Jeanie Gagne, Michael Riesman, S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Madras Choir, Madras, Ronu Majumdar, Shubho Shankar, Partha Sarathy, T. Srinivasan & Abhiman Kaushal
7:35
10
Chappaqua
sample avg 3.2
2:20
11
Friar Park
sample avg 3.9 · Ravi Shankar, Frank Serafine, Lakshmi Shankar, George Harrison, Aashish Khan, Shubho Shankar, Kumar Bose, Swapan Chowdhury, Markandeya Mishra, Harhar Rao, Prodyot Sen, Patrick O'Hearn, Ric Parnell, Ray Cooper & Al Kooper
5:56
12
For All Mankind
sample avg 3.7 · George Fenton, Ravi Shankar, The Wren Orchestra & Ashit Desai
6:18
13
Offering
sample avg 3.2 · Ravi Shankar, Fred Zlotkin, Peter Gordon, Tim Baker, Barry Finclair, Mayuki Fukuhara, Regis Iandiorio, Karen Karlsud, Sergiu Schwartz, Masako Yanagita, Al Brown, Richard Sortomme, Seymour Barab, Beverly Laudrisen, Joe Carver, Theresa Norris, Jack Kripl, Jon Gibson, Richard Peck, Lenny Pickett, Ron Sell, Keith O'Quinn, Alan Raph, Gorden Gottleib, Jeanie Gagne, Michael Riesman, S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Madras Choir, Madras, Ronu Majumdar, Shubho Shankar, Partha Sarathy, T. Srinivasan & Abhiman Kaushal
9:43