☆ Ravi Shankar • Raga Sitar Folk of India
22 videos • 20,085 views • by ThePsychedelicGarden Ravi Shankar • Early Ragas ~ Indian Sitar Folk Selections • • • • • "Ravi Shankar, (7 April 1920 -- 11 December 2012), often referred to by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar, a plucked string instrument. He has been described as the best-known contemporary Indian musician. "Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956. "In 1956, he began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and rock artist George Harrison of The Beatles. "Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continued to perform in the 2000s, sometimes with his younger daughter, Anoushka..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Sha... • • • • • selected discography: Three Ragas (1956) Anuradha (1960) Improvisations (1962) India's Most Distinguished Musician in Concert (1962) Ravi Shankar (Odeon Records, India catalogue) (1963) India's Master Musician (1963) In London (1964) Ragas & Talas (1964) The Master Musicians of India (with Ali Akbar Khan) (1964) Portrait of Genius (1964) Sound of the Sitar (1965) West Meets East (Album 1) with Yehudi Menuhin (also titled Menuhin Meets Shankar) (1966) At the Monterey Pop Festival (1967) In San Francisco (1967) West Meets East (Album 2) with Yehudi Menuhin (1967) Live at Monterey (1967) The Exotic Sitar and Sarod (1967) Two Raga Moods (1967) A Morning Raga / An Evening Raga (1968) The Sounds of India (1968) In New York (1968) At the Woodstock Festival (1969) Music Festival From India (1969) Six Ragas (1970) Four Raga Moods (1971) Raga [Original Soundtrack Album] (1971) The Concert for Bangladesh (credited to George Harrison & Friends) (1971) Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra with London Symphony Orchestra and André Previn (1971) The Genius of Ravi Shankar (1972) In Concert 1972 with Ali Akbar Khan (1973) Transmigration Macabre (1973) (soundtrack for the film "Viola") Ragas with Ali Akbar Khan - contains The Master Musicians of India (1964) and the Ali Akbar Khan album The Soul of Indian Music (1965) (released as a double album in 1973) Shankar Family & Friends (1974) − available as part of Ravi Shankar—George Harrison Collaborations box set (2010) Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India (1976) − available as part of Ravi Shankar—George Harrison Collaborations box set (2010) Shankar in Japan (1979) • • • • • official web: http://www.ravishankar.org/ RIP • • • • • india east indian raga ragas sitar tablas trad. folk jazz fusion psych psychedelic progressive prog world music asia asian "far east" 1960's 1960s 60's 60s sixties seventies 1970's 1970s 70's 70s 1956 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 '73 '56 '63 '64 '65 '66 '67 '68 '69 '70 '71 '72 movie composer film score motion picture soundtrack