Shakti

   
Artist: Shakti

   Genre(s): 
Jazz: Ethnic-Jazz
   Ethnic
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 The Best Of

   Year:    
Tracks: 9


   
 Saturday Night In Bombay

   Year:    
Tracks: 4

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As jazz-rock fusion pioneer John McLaughlin delved deeper into Eastern spirituality and religious mysticism, he highly-developed a corresponding interest in the music of South India. Following the crumble of the second version of the Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1975, McLaughlin put together Shakti, an outfit dedicated to fusing high-energy jazz and Indian music. In accession to McLaughlin (world Health Organization played acoustic guitar instead of his customary galvanic), Shakti featured fiddler Lakshminarayana Shankar, tabla musician Zakir Hussain, and mridangam players T.H. "Vikku" Vinayakram and Ramnad V. Raghavan. The group's innovative self-titled debut was released in the summertime of 1975, subsequently which Raghavan asleep, going them a quadruple. Two further Shakti albums -- 1976's A Handful of Beauty and 1977's Natural Elements -- appeared ahead McLaughlin elective to go on to other projects. In 1999, McLaughlin reunited with Hussain and Vinayakram for a new double-disc record album, Remember Shakti, which besides featured bansuri superior Hariprasad Chaurasia.