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The Rough Guide: Ravi ShankarPandit Ravi Shankar, a Bengali cultural catalyst if ever there was one, is the most famous Indian alive. When people say that India colonised the Western mind, much of it was of his doing, and when it came to getting people to pay heed to the wonders of Hindustani music, nobody ever surpassed Ravi Shankar India's best known sitar player opened the breach through which many others poured. Through his influence, this missionary, pioneer and experimenter

All whilst adding those hints of that irresistible Peruvian flavour

a young rapper captivated the nation

as well as the koto/guitar duo tsuMGuito (Maya Kimura and Norio Sato) who pay tribute to French composer Pierre Boulez in an experimental composition by Shintaro Imai

Two of the album’s tracks (‘Balkissa’ and ‘Talka’) feature the great man’s playing and were recorded very shortly before his death in 2017

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her father casts the seeds askance inviting death to seize the unlucky victim

when creating a complex fugue or an intricate sonata he was known not eat for two or three days

Deeply rooted in the rich traditions of the African-American church

traditional music of Bela Lakatos &

Creatively they carve a musical link that not only sounds entirely new

Pakistani devotional music (qawali) and rock and roll couldn't seem stranger bedfellows

it’s clear that Steve Tilston is an artist very much at the height of his powers

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