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Shakti headed for the safer confines of a London recording studio on its second album, minus
R. Raghavan and minus some of the volatile energy that they generated on their debut record.
They were, however, a more integrated, more subtle ensemble now, exploring quieter, more lyrical
corners of their East-West fusion, with L. Shankar's spectacular violin and Zakir Hussain's tabla
taking the solo foreground as much as, if not more than, McLaughlin's acoustic guitar. With the
exception of an arrangement ofa traditional South Indian piece "Kriti," McLaughlin and Shankar
contribute all of the compositions, which lean even more heavily toward South Indian music with
reminders of McLaughlin's Western roots. As a whole, this is less accessible to McLaughlin's
jazz-rock flock than the first Shakti album, but still fascinating for contemporary listeners with a yen
for world music, as well as curious stragglers from the classical Indian world dominatedby Ravi
Shankar (another indefatigable champion of East-West fusions).
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Artists :
John McLaughlin (guitar)
L. Shankar (violin)
Zakir Hussain(tabla)
T.H.Vinayalaram (ghatam, mridangam)
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