Shakti!

This is a classic video of "Shakti".





Shakti was formed in 1975 by the legendary British jazz guitarist John Mc Laughlin. The approach of the project was exclusively orientated to East meets West musical arguments. For this original musical adventure, Mc Laughlin is accompanied by classical Indian instrumentists whose Zakir Hussain on tabla, L. Shankar on violin and Vikku Vinayakram on ghatam.

Sand drawings

Just Imagine



Awesome!

Millenium Campaign

AR Rahman's campaign for TB

You've heard him sing, you've heard his fingers speak when he plays the keyboard, now listen to him speak his heart out for the Millenium TB campaign.

Remember Shakti

This is a video of "Saturday Night in Bombay" by "Remember Shakti".

Guitarist John McLaughlin is one of the true legends of modern jazz.In "Saturday Night in Bombay",two distinct musical genres, traditional jazz and Indian classical music are fused together to form a powerfully energetic record. Saturday Night in Bombay features the current touring version of McLaughlin's Indian/Western improvisational quartet, which includes Zakir Hussain, U. Shrinivas, and V.Selvaganesh-Remember Shakti.

Guests (In this video)
Shankar Mahadevan - vocals
Debashish Bhattacharya - Hindustani slide guitar
Sivamani - drums & percussion
Shiv Kumar Sharma - santur
A.K Pallanivel - tavil

ukulele magic

Jake Shimabukuro performs his version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by George Harrison(GOD) on the ukulele. In his intro he sez "it goes sumthing like this". Call that modesty!
Practice makes a man GOD! It's a "goosebumpy" video. He plays the chords and leads at the same time in the second half of the video. Stunning! Nothing parallels live music and watching musicians play.

Jana Gana Mana

The National Anthem of India. A soul stirring song rendered by the heart and soul of Indian music, first an instrumental and then with vocals. By the time Smt D.K Pattammal sings "Vindhya Himachala..." the already wet eye sheds the tear. The power of music!

Credits

Music Produced By

A.R.Rahman

Sound Engineers

H.Sridhar and Shivakumar

Additional Music Supervisor

Srinivas Murthy

Panchathan Team

Noell James, R.Swamidurai, Noor Mohammed

Recorded at

Pachathan Record-Inn (Chennai)

Galactica

CMM

Media Artists

Musicians

Flute: Pt.Hari Prasad Chaurasia

Sarod: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash

Santoor: Pt.Shiv Kumar Sharma, Rahul Sharma

Ghattam: Vikku Vinayakram, Uma Shankar

Mohan Veena: Pt.Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

Saxophone: Kadri Gopalnath

Chitraveena: Ravikiran

Veena: E.Gayathri

Sarangi: Ustad Sultan Khan

Sitar: Pt. Kartick Kumar, Nilandri Kumar

Violin: Kumaresh, Ganesh

Orchestra

Conductor: K.Srinivas Murthy

Cello: Ramsekar, R.K.Vijayandran, Bidyut Khayal

Tympany: Kumar, Karthikeyan

Violin: M.Kalyansunderam, Jerry Fernandes, Cyril Fernandes, R.Joseph, K.Murali,
B.J.Chandru, B.Balu, Murali, Dinakar, Rex Isaac, Hemantraj, Debu Ashish,
P.J.Sebastian, P.S.Ramchandran, Mridangam, D.A.Srinivas

Harp: R.Visweswaran

Vocalists

D.K.Pattamal

Pt.Bhimsen Joshi

Lata Mangeshkar

Pt.Jasraj

Dr.Balamuralikrishna

Jagjit Singh

Pt.Ajay Chakravarty

Smt Shobha Gurtu

Begum Parveena Sultana

Bhupen Hazarika

Ustad Rashid Khan

Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan

Smt Shruti Sadolikar

Dr.S.P.Balasubramaniam

Sudha Raghunathan

Asha Bhosle

Hariharan

Kavitha Krishnamurthy

P.Unnikrishnan

Nityashree

Sadiq Khan Langa

Ghulam Khan Langa

Ghulam Qadir Khan

Kaushiki Chakravarty

Backing Vocals

Febi, Ganga, Kanchana, Sujatha, Srinivas, Chandran, Noell, Ram, Clinton, Kunal,
Shazneen, Suzanne, Samantha, Vidya, Subiksha, Priya, Shruti, Suja, Madhumitha