The legendary sitarist was posthumously honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys this year.
Kolkata:
Ravi Shankar's latest album TheLiving Room Sessions Part II, which spans a wide range ofIndian classical ragas, will be released towards the end of2013.
The legendary sitarist was posthumously honoured with alifetime achievement award at the Grammys and also won in theWorld Music category for The Living Room Sessions Part1 recently.
The Living Room happened after Ravi Shankar improvisedseven different ragas on October, 2011 following long-timeinformal sessions at his living room with tabla accompanistTanmoy Bose at his home in Encinitas, California.
Tanmoy, a long-time accompanist of Shankar, told PTIhere, "It was pure Shankar, the pairing of deep musicalexperience and brilliant technique, performed with the energyand passion he brings to his live concerts."
The album has four tracks starting with Raga Malgunji,a meditative strain reflecting on the distance between thehuman and the supreme, to the lighter, lyrical Raga Khamaj andRaga Kedara.
The last track is Raga Satyajit, a spontaneous melodicraga dedicated to late film maestro and friend of Shankar,Satyajit Ray, the celebrated percussionist said.
The emotion in the sitar maestro's masterly expositionis simply powerful, candid and personal, Tanmoy, the frontmanof 'Taaltantra', an international fusion band, said.
"Living Room Sessions Part 1 is a revelation of thegenius of Panditji. It seems like he is strumming the stringsbefore us when we close our eyes," Tanmoy said.
The release of the second disc is scheduled for theautumn this year, where "the emotion in the sitarist'sintimate and masterly strokes as the duo exchangeimprovisational phrasings, manifests as in the first one, hesaid.
Shankar died in December at the age of 92, afterfailing to recover from surgery at a hospital in La Jolla,California, near San Diego. His family was at his bedside.
The legendary sitarist was posthumously honoured with alifetime achievement award at the Grammys and also won in theWorld Music category for The Living Room Sessions Part1 recently.
The Living Room happened after Ravi Shankar improvisedseven different ragas on October, 2011 following long-timeinformal sessions at his living room with tabla accompanistTanmoy Bose at his home in Encinitas, California.
Tanmoy, a long-time accompanist of Shankar, told PTIhere, "It was pure Shankar, the pairing of deep musicalexperience and brilliant technique, performed with the energyand passion he brings to his live concerts."
The album has four tracks starting with Raga Malgunji,a meditative strain reflecting on the distance between thehuman and the supreme, to the lighter, lyrical Raga Khamaj andRaga Kedara.
The last track is Raga Satyajit, a spontaneous melodicraga dedicated to late film maestro and friend of Shankar,Satyajit Ray, the celebrated percussionist said.
The emotion in the sitar maestro's masterly expositionis simply powerful, candid and personal, Tanmoy, the frontmanof 'Taaltantra', an international fusion band, said.
"Living Room Sessions Part 1 is a revelation of thegenius of Panditji. It seems like he is strumming the stringsbefore us when we close our eyes," Tanmoy said.
The release of the second disc is scheduled for theautumn this year, where "the emotion in the sitarist'sintimate and masterly strokes as the duo exchangeimprovisational phrasings, manifests as in the first one, hesaid.
Shankar died in December at the age of 92, afterfailing to recover from surgery at a hospital in La Jolla,California, near San Diego. His family was at his bedside.
