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new to stock as of
march 12th, 2008
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| | | reprise (usa) #rs 6398h lp ananda shankar “ananda shankar (180g)” long playing record - jumpin' jack flash (3:40)
- snow flower (3:10)
- light my fire (3:29)
- mamata (affection) (2:50)
- metamorphosis (6:49)
- sagar (the ocean) (13:13)
- dance indra (3:49)
- raghupati (3:35)
| domestic, fully-licensed reissue of this 1970 moogsplotation / sitarsploitation classic ; normally not something i’d go for given that it’s mainly covers of era chestnuts ... but i have to admit that the 13+ minute “sagar (the ocean)” is absolutely one of the most far-out and ear-pleasing moog / tape-echo’ed sitar workouts - this just saps the energy right out of the room (woe be the dj that doesn’t check the side & injects this slice of dark psychedelic raga-molasses onto a crowd of hipster-ettes instead of “jumpin’ jack flash” ...) and makes me want to aquaint my posterior with a bean-bag & an other plane of “there” just about every time i hear it ...
ps. again, this is the 180g version, a bit heavier / more expensive of course, but an infinitely better pressing ... |
| | "the covers of 'jumpin' jack flash' and 'light my fire' (the latter of which itself had borrowed liberally from eastern motifs in its original hit version) were the most obvious attempts to reach out to the rock audience. it could even be said that hints of tommy james's massive late-'60s hit 'crystal blue persuasion' could be heard rattling around one of the shankar-lewinson collaborations, 'mamata,' and the bittersweet 'snow flower' was perhaps the most psychedelically-inclined of the originals, overlaid with buzzing and fluttering electronics.
yet arguably the best performances on ananda shankar were those that emphasized the indian side of the equation, like the blissed-out 'metamorphosis' (which managed to fit in some funky drum breaks before accelerating into a mini-raveup) and the 13-minute 'sagar' -- the latter, according to shankar's notes, the only selection on the lp played in the indian classical style." - richie unterberger |
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