A rare groove classic finally back in print! Opener ‘Streets Of Calcutta’ has been covered several times (most recently by japanese wizards Kikagaku Moyo) and is still regarded as an east / west hybrid manifesto.

Ananda Shankar was an Indian musician, singer, and composer best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to dancer and choreographer Tanusree Shankar. In the late 1960s, Shankar travelled to Los Angeles, where he played with many contemporary musicians including Jimi Hendrix. There he was signed to Reprise Records and released his first album, Ananda Shankar, in 1970, with original Indian classical material alongside sitar-based cover versions of popular hits, The Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and The Doors' "Light My Fire".

Returning to India in the early 1970s, Shankar continued to experiment musically and in 1975 released his most critically acclaimed album, Ananda Shankar and His Music, a jazz-funk mix of Eastern sitar, Western rock guitar, tabla and mridangam, drums and Moog synthesizers.

PERSONNEL:

• Alok Nath Dey
• Anto Menezes
• Ashish Gupta
• Cyrus Tata
• Douglas Barlow
• Gopeswar Dutt
• Nalu Mitra
• Prasanta Dhar
• Rabin Das
• Rabin Ghosh
• Ramesh Misra
• Soumen Dey
• Souren Ghosh
• Soven Dey
• Swapan Sen
• Ujjal Chatterjee
• Y. S. Moolky

• GUESTS
• Indranil Bhattacharya - (sitar)
• Gopa Ganguli, Kabita Naandi, Mamata Shankar, Nomita Roy - (vocals)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Streets Of Calcutta
• A2. Cyrus
• A3. The Lonely Rider
• A4. The River
• A5. Vidai (Parting)
• A6. Back Home

• SIDE B
• B1. Dawn
• B2. Renunciation
• B3. Dancing Drums