Ravi Shankar Rest in Peace
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- sea_sea
Much respect and admiration.
"Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an eight-decade career, has died. He was 92."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/en…
- teh0
Oh no!
Thank you timeless Pandit. May you and your music travel the winds and into the ears of all for all time.
- jaylarson0
fuck
- sothere0
I missed seeing the great man In Ahmedabad in 1993. He was sick and couldn't come. I regretted it so much I brought a tape (yes a tape) and played it in my car for ages. It got caught in the unforgiving mechanisms of a car stereo tape machine and was lost forever.
I didn't know much about his music at the time and just thought it was a Indian touristy kind of thing to do to buy a Ravi Shanka tape. But I could tell even though it sounded strange to my ears he was playing something that transcended. He found a way to do something I wish I could, mix virtuosity with something instinctive and reach further to a place that is on the edge. A place we don't all get to go.
So thanks for sharing your life with us Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury. RIP
- dobre0
on 12.12.12 at 12:12:12?
i'll go hug Ms. Jones
- utopian0
fuck no, he was only 92, so young!
- Jacque0
Saw him and his daughter play about 3 years ago, he could no longer position the sitar by himself, but he could still play it masterfully.
- Norah Jones or Anoushka Shankar?D4W33D
- he had great adaptability to the flaws of the aging body.74LEO
- norah didnt play sitar ... i think.74LEO
- yup that's true, but norah jones plays with his sister.D4W33D
- her sister.74LEO
- Anoushka. She's also an amazing sitar player. She did most the the fast technical stuff that Ravi couldn't do anymore.Jacque
- D4W33D0
I was wondering if Ravi has already playing with his daughter Nora?
- jaylarson0
top five album too:
