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Music CD - John McLaughlin: Remember Shakti
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Music CD: Remember Shakti
Artist: John McLaughlin
List Price: $29.98
Our Price: $16.99
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Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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Tracks:
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1. Chandrakauns - John McLaughlin, Chaurasia, Haripras
2. The Wish - John McLaughlin, McLaughlin, John
3. Lotus Feet - John McLaughlin, McLaughlin, John
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731455994520
Label: Polygram Records
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Polygram Records
Release Date: 1999-04-13
Studio: Polygram Records
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Summary: A true fusion of Eastern and Western music...
Comment: I always loved this album. The first Shakti album was very good, but some found it too intense, virtuostic, and technical (I didn't, but that's another story). This album proves that McLaughlin and Shakti had real depth to their music, and this album is just as intense as the others they've done. It's an epic album, with the shortest track being 7 1/2 minutes (a mellow remake of Lotus Feet from Shakti's first album). The opening track, Chandrakauns, is meditative, moving, and haunting. McLaughlin doesn't appear on this track, instead it's a showcase for Hariprasad Chaurasia, who plays the bansuri, a sort of Indian pan flute. The song, Mukti, is a great epic song, running 63 1/2 minutes (!), and yet, never feeling old or tired or padded. It's really quite moving, even the tabla solo (around the 55 minute mark) is really good. McLaughlin always got a lot of flack for being "pretentious", but I never bought it. He is just ambitious, and is always attempting to fuse Western and Eastern music sensibilities, which I think he succeeds at admirably.
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Summary: Subtle and sublime
Comment: This is a great release and in my book one of their best. No L Shankar here, Hariprasad Chaurasiya adds a (wonderful)new dimension and it shows!
Two long pieces, Mukti and Chandrakauns but great listening. I got the impression they had a terrific time doing this album and the flow shows.
Special mention for Zakir and Lotus Feet, great tracks, hats off to HPC.
All in all a fine release
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Summary: Remember Shakti
Comment: I'm in Sydney Australia, so I was very pleasantly surprised as to how quickly I was sent the product. Well done guys. Keep looking after us Aussies!
Regards
Gary Peacock
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Summary: Love it!
Comment: I was reading an article in the LA times about this band and at the end of the article it said they were playing ......that very night. To the horror of my (then) wife and son, I talked them into going with me. It was the most beautiful music I have heard - every second of the show was stunning and it lasted almost three hours. This CD and "Believer" are a "must have" for McLaughlin/Shakti fans.
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Summary: Delicate, subtle, and wonderful.
Comment: Remember Shakti is one of those rare bands that can seemingly do no wrong, even moreso than the original Shakti group. Shakti was the great Indian/Jazz fusion band, featuring master musicians John McLaughlin (guitar), Zaikir Hussain (tabla) and T.H. "Vikku" Vinyakram (ghatam). Without the presence of violinist L. Shankar, an alternate voice is provide by bansuri (a kind of flute) virtuoso Hariprasad Chaurasia. The music on this recording is subtle and low key, slow to build (one track stretches over 30 minutes, another over an hour), its subtle, quiet, unagressive, and yet totally engaging. It draws you in with its circular, almost hypnotic patterns and unnervingly brilliant performance and near psychic interaction from the band, in particular McLaughln and Hussain, who in my assssment were born to play together. Interactions are somewhat sparse, augmented by the fact that not everyone plays on every track-- in fact, only the brief and haunting "Lotus Feet" and the extended "Mukti" feature the whole band.
There's a lot to find to love here, the aformentioned "Lotus Feet" is haunting, dark, and brilliant. For those looking for jaw dropping guitar playing by McLaughlin, look no further than "The Wish", opening with several minutes of solo guitar before being augmented by the percussionists. McLaughlin is absolutely brilliant, with certainly one of his best performances. And for delicate beauty, there's McLaughlin's tribute to his friend, "Zakir", performed by the author in duet with Chaurasia. But perhaps what is most amazing is "Mukti", over an hour long, yet somehow never drifting into pointlessness or tediousness.
The later Remember Shakti band, where McLaughlin and Hussain were augmented by different musicians, is a much more lively and energetic affair, and to be honest, preferred by me (although when this was released several years ago, I couldn't imagine that would be possible), but that renders this recording no less valid-- the music here is absolutely breathtaking and delicately beautiful. Highly recommended.
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Editorial Reviews:
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John McLaughlin made his mark in jazz by blazing a speed-freak guitar trail through the electric thickets and torrential rhythms. Then there was Shakti, the East Indian-meets-fusion band McLaughlin founded after Mahavishnu. Revisiting Shakti on this 1997 two-CD set recorded live on a British tour, John McLaughlin sounds at once flashy and deferential, ever keenly after the most excitable guitar lines balanced against rushes of rhythm--and willing not to shine brightest. This Shakti lineup includes original member Zakir Hussain on tabla and T.H. Vinayakram on ghatam, and the core group gets additional help from Hariprasad Chaurasia on bansuri flute and Uma Metha on tanpura on more than half these two-plus hours of riveting music. For fans of McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra feverishness, there is plenty of heat in the guitar, even though it's played filmily enough so that the hand percussion and deep flute winds blow through. --Andrew Bartlett
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