To appreciate this album, you need to appreciate ALL music and the intertwining of the various influences that occurred over the years.
Never heard of Ravi? He is a virtuoso of the sitar playing traditional North Indian music on the instrument but he has influenced music and musicians across the world.
Ravi first played at Monterey in 1967
Then he was invited, and played at Woodstock 1969, held on the farm of Max Yasgur.
Ravi came out on stage at midnight on Day 1 of the festival, and the crowd (over 500,000 of them!) went crazy!
Woodstock (the REAL) Woodstock was about change, a social revolution and musical upheaval.
The young generation (yes I was one of them) wanted a new direction, conflicts and disillusionment with the status quo caused this generation to seek each other out in peace and harmony - some would say it was an enormous "love in" by a bunch of hippies.
Influential musicians and bands were searching out new sounds, new meanings - many musicians visited India and attempted to understand this new way of thinking and new "sounds" from instruments such as the sitar. Although not limited to the Beatles, they headed off to India in 1968 and Ravi had a great influence upon George Harrison in particular.
So this album contains no blues, no rock, no vocals (although there is spoken word in English as Ravi introduces each piece of music) - open your mind and your ears, this album will give a little taste of India.
Ravi Shankar - The Sounds Of India
CBS Masterworks Records
Cat# SBR235243
Stereo
1968 (Reissue of the original 1958 release)
Australian release
Cover is in very good condition, no tears, no writing, no seam splits.
New inner plastic liner sleeve
Vinyl record is in very good condition, visually inspected under a white halogen light source and I can see just a couple of very light scratches/marks at all on either side. I then played both sides ENTIRELY, every single track, and there are no significant issues with surface noise and only the occasional click/pop.
NOTE: I do notice the audio recording level is quite low compared to other recordings so you will tend to hear any surface noise or click/pops more readily as the volume needs to be turned up higher than normal.
New outer protective sleeve
Tracks: An Introduction To Indian Music, Dadra, Maru-Bihag, Bhimpalasi, Sindhi-Bhairavi
