Ravi Shankar - Chants Of India (LP, Album, Reissue)
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Description
Chants of India is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar released in 1997 on Angel Records. Produced by his friend and sometime collaborator George Harrison, the album consists of Vedic and other Hindu sacred prayers set to music, marking a departure from Shankar's more familiar work in the field of Hindustani classical music. The lyrical themes of the recorded chants are peace and harmony among nature and all creatures. Sessions for the album took place in the Indian city of Madras and at Harrison's home in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, following his work on The Beatles' Anthology (1995). Anoushka Shankar, John Barham, Bikram Ghosh, Tarun Bhatacharaya and Ronu Majumdar are among the many musicians who contributed to the recording. Chants of India was well received by reviewers; author Peter Lavezzoli describes it as "a quiet masterpiece" and "the most fully realized collaboration" by Shankar and Harrison. Shankar considered it to be among the best works of his 60-year career. In 2010, the album was reissued as part of the Dark Horse Records box set Collaborations, which combined various projects undertaken by the two artists, beginning in 1973. Chants of India was the last formal collaboration between Shankar and Harrison, who was diagnosed with cancer shortly after its release. At the Concert for George in November 2002, Shankar incorporated some of the selections from Chants of India, including the album-closing "Sarve Shaam", in a set performed by daughter Anoushka as a tribute to Harrison.
Release Info
Artist: Ravi Shankar
Label: Dark Horse Records
Format: LP, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Label: Dark Horse Records
Released: 2022-03-11
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Indian Classical
Tracklist
A1 Vandanaa Trayee
A2 Omkaaraaya Namaha
A3 Vedic Chanting
A4 Asato Maa
B5 Sahanaa Vavatu
B6 Poornamadah
B7 Gaayatri
B8 Mahaa Mrityunjaya
B9 Veenaa-Murali
C10 Geetaa
C11 Mangalam
C12 Hari Om
C13 Svara Mantra
D14 Vedic Chanting
D15 Prabhujee
D16 Sarve Shaam
