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"I Am Missing You" is a song by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, sung by his sister-in-law Lakshmi Shankar and released as the lead single from his 1974 album Shankar Family & Friends. The song is a rare Shankar composition in the Western pop genre, with English lyrics, and was written as a love song to the Hindu god Krishna.
Shankar's music popularized the fundamentals of Indian music, including raga, a melodic form and widely influenced popular music in the 1960s and 70s.". [ 106 ] In September 2014, a postage stamp featuring Shankar was released by India Post commemorating his contributions.
Joi Bangla is an EP by Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, issued in August 1971 on Apple Records.The recording was produced by George Harrison and its release marked the first in a series of occasional collaborations between the two musicians that lasted until the Chants of India album in 1997.
The Sounds of India is an album by Ravi Shankar which introduces and explains Hindustani classical music to Western audiences. Released by Columbia Records in 1957, it was influenced by Ali Akbar Khan's The Sounds of India, [1] and recorded and produced by George Avakian in 1957 at Columbia's New York studio.
Three Ragas is a 1956 LP album by Hindustani classical musician Ravi Shankar.It was digitally remastered and released in CD format by Angel Records in 2000. AllMusic reviewer Matthew Greenwald praised the performance of the raga Jog and described the album as an "excellent introduction to the medium of Indian music".
The Exciting Music of Ravi Shankar (1970) Four Raga Moods (1971) PBP Ravi Shankar and PBU Ahmedjan Thirakhwa (1971) Joi Bangla EP (1971) Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra with the London Symphony Orchestra and André Previn (1971) The Concert for Bangladesh (1971) – side one only, with Ali Akbar Khan; The Genius of Ravi Shankar (1972) Ravi ...
Portrait of Genius is a 1964 LP album by Hindustani classical musician Ravi Shankar. It was digitally remastered and released in CD format by Angel Records in 1998. Matthew Greenwald of Allmusic described the album as "essential for any fan of Shankar or Indian music". [1]
He then introduced Ravi Shankar and the latter's fellow musicians – sarodya Ali Akbar Khan, tabla player Alla Rakha, and Kamala Chakravarty on tamboura. [89] Shankar first explained the reason for the concerts, after which the four musicians performed a traditional dhun, in the format of a khyal rather than a standard raga, titled "Bangla ...