Results for "Anoushka Shankar"

Traces of You

Featuring the music of Anoushka Shankar
Duration: 11:03
August 10, 2013

OFFest, Skopje, Macedonia, June 1-6, 2013

by Nenad Georgievski
June 25, 2013

OFFestSkopje, MacedoniaJune 1-6, 2013Now in its 12th year, the younger sister of the Skopje Jazz Festival has been presenting a more contemporary or 21st century type of world music, where the music is a result of an accelerating fusion, a combination of local traditions with ideas and technologies from afar. It is ...

Anoushka Shankar: A Celebration of Joy

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
April 24, 2012

Anoushka Shankar is one of the rare artists whose attitude and creativity reflects her love, respect and appreciation for all people and cultures in the world today. This is contrary to traditional teachings and beliefs, which have historically taught patriotism for one's country and culture specifically. But Anoushka Shankar is not your typical contemporary artist. Certainly ...

Anoushka Shankar: New York City, NY, April 6, 2012

by Ernest Barteldes
April 15, 2012

Anoushka ShankarCity Winery New York, NY April 6, 2012Touring in support of Traveller (Deutsche Grammophon, 2012), Indian-born sitarist Anoushka Shankar kicked off the show at the Manhattan venue with a traditional raga backed by Sanjeev Shankar (shehnai) and Pirashanna Thevarajah (mridangam, ghatam, kanjira, moorsing ). The trio was then joined by ...

Arturo Sandoval Live in Evanston with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra

by Thomas Carroll
April 14, 2012

Arturo Sandoval with the Chicago Jazz OrchestraPick-Staiger Concert HallNorthwestern University Soundings Spring FestivalEvanston, ILApril 7, 2012Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval says he's happy some people still listen to music made by musicians playing instruments. In an age when people can download songs for 99 cents without knowing who arranged the songs ...

Inside Me

Featuring the music of Anoushka Shankar
Duration: 3:25
April 12, 2012

Enjoy Jazz: Mannheim, Germany, October 2-November 18, 2011, Week 5-7

by Adriana Carcu
December 1, 2011

Week 1-2 | Week 3-4 | Week 5-7 Enjoy Jazz FestivalHeidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany October 2-November 18, 2011 Colin Vallon Trio The performance of the Swiss trio surprised from the onset, through their pronounced experimental character. Other than the steady narrative flow featured on their most recent album Rruga (ECM, 2011), the ...

Breathing Under Water

By Anoushka Shankar

Label: Manhattan Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Burn; Slither; Breathing Under Water; Sea Dreamer; Ghost Story; PD7; Easy; Little Glass Folk; A Perfect Rain; Abyss; Oceanic, Part 1; Oceanic, Part 2; Reprise.

Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale: Breathing Under Water

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 17, 2007

Anoushka Shankar learned the Indian classical music tradition from perhaps its best teacher--her father, Ravi Shankar. She made her recording debut on In Celebration (Angel Records, 1995), George Harrison's four-CD retrospective tribute to her father, and her debut as a solo artist with Anoushka (Angel, 1998). Anoushka's first album of original material, Rise (Angel, 2005), was ...

Anoushka Shankar / Karsh Kale: Breathing Under Water

by Bhasker Gupta
September 24, 2007

The Shankar family has always been credited for bringing Indian music to the forefront of Western audiences. Although it was Pt. Ravi Shankar who brought sitar to the limelight of western avant-garde instrumentalists, the most experimental fusion work remains of that of the lesser known Ananda Shankar. Following along the same lines, and after two years ...