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Ravi Shankar
Topic Started: Dec 12 2012, 08:55 AM (132 Views)
Lurkalot

RIP Ravi
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Mobson
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Oh really? I had no idea until I saw your post Lurks...
Maestro Shankar popularised Indian music with his wonderful sitar playing around the world collaborating with many western greats; a favoured musician of the Beatles, George Harrison called him "the godfather of world music" and I loved listening to the album they made together.

Although his music became generally more well known through that connection, he also collaborated on a number of film scores, notably for the indian director Satyajit Ray, and for our own Richard Attenborough's 1982 epic Ghandi.

At the good age of 92, he leaves behind two famous daughters, Anoushka, a fine sitar player who he continued to perform with; their last performance together was on 4th November, and singer Norah Jones. <dove>

Edited by Mobson, Dec 12 2012, 09:26 AM.
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I had the 'Concert for Bangladesh' triple album and there was a whole side of Ravi's playing that I might have listened to once. Sitar was fashionable in the West for a while because the Beatles used it and it fitted with the whole hippy thing. It's interesting that, while Indian percussion was fully embraced by European popular music, sitar faded away a bit. It's a very difficult instrument to master and hardcore sitar music is not easy for western ears.

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