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January 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Anoushka Shankar: Reflections

Anoushka Shankar Reflections Deutsche Grammophon We maybe don’t think much about the Greatest Hits album anymore – you grab what you need from wherever you are online; someone’s made a playlist if you haven’t. A YouTube run is easy enough – grab a few bites and move on.

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March 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 39: Ananda Shankar – “Ananda Shankar”

I’m thinking that I’ve never really heard Ananda Shankar even though I know the name. And when I get to this, his self-titled debut I realise I do know this music, have heard a few of the piece; though never the whole album. So it was fun to sit down with this and follow it […]

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January 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 28: Hariprasad Chaurasia, Brij Bhushan Kabra and Shivkumar Sharma – “Call Of The Valley”

One of those albums – Call Of The Valley where you listen to it, or become aware of it, because of the people that it inspired; because of who was listening to it. In this case, most obviously/logically: George Harrison. Also  Roger McGuinn, Dylan, Paul McCartney and David Crosby.