The Sounds of India

Не те щоб я дуже люблю саме індійську традицію і звук ситара, але дуже подобається як Раві Шанкар пояснює прям на альбомі якісь моменти типу розмірів, або гармоній. Це цікаво.

Good intro to the stuff you hear on many Beatles albums.

Good album but I won’t be rushing to revisit it.

Fascinating and very very cool

pqp sitar é mto foda. a vontade eh gritar QUEBRA ESSA PORRA RAVI pq o mlk é bom.

não é minha pira, mas foi bem divertido. escutei organizando coisas aqui na empresa, passou rapidinho e me deixou menos cansado (?)

eh bacana tbm as explicação dele. música indiana parece complexa.

jesus you’d think from this list that there hasn’t been music made in India in the last 60 years

I thought it important but a bit dated.

Love me some microtones but this is quite repetitive.

This one felt educational. Like sure I enjoyed what I was learning, but I do not feel the need to repeat the same lesson again in the same way.

I kinda liked the music, but I didn't care for all the talking. Between the accent, speaking volume, and content, I didn't really understand much of it and it detracted from the flow of the music itself. 2.5/5

Holy crap could Ravi shred. The end of Dádrá is wild. My thing with Indian traditional music is that I just have no attachment to the Ragas. I have no context, so it's all over my head any my head. And it takes a long ass time to get anywhere.

The second album in a row that my review is just one word. Awful!!

This is not an album, its a history lesson in indian music and culture.

I greatly appreciate the lesson on the music of India at the start of the album. One thing he said is “we listen with an open mind and no expectation of melody or counterpoint as is found in western music.” By listening in this way I was able to relax into it. Good stuff.

Wow, that was fun. And while I do enjoy the educational asides it might be distracting enough that I wouldn't throw this on anytime like I might have otherwise. But still, great album.

I appreciate the skill, but I don't like it at all. I wish there was an option to have gifs in your reviews, because this could so much more easily be summed up by a single funny gif of a bored and frustrated looking dog or something. Maybe a dramatic eye-roll from a small child, wise beyond their years. Or maybe I could just include a static image of me lying down flat on the pavement, looking utterly defeated.

Kunnon opastus intialaiseen impromusaan! Ei vaan kyseinen genre ehkä täysin aukea niin 3/5

Virtuosic sitar playing. I enjoyed the explanations on a first listen through, but imagine that on subsequent listens you'd want to skip them. The last minute of Bhimpalasi where the lower tones come in is amazing. Hypnotic stuff.

Oof getting behind in my reviews! Just a couple notes about this interesting album:

1. Obviously influential, maybe not just Ravi Shankar but the whole Indian Classical genre, and obviously in Britain.

2. Culturally more important than musically, maybe?

3. Difficult to pay attention to continuously, but enjoyable in the background.

4. Get your mind somewhere else for a change, this kind of music is really healthy for the brain if nothing else because it is different from what you're used to. You don't have to like it, but do yourself a favor, and as he says, listen with an open mind and you will be rewarded.
5. Virtuosic. I wish I had more time to just let it wash over me(maybe I'll listen to it again today, since I don't have to listen to Kanye West).

The Ravi Shankar material I've heard is all consistently great. I get the reasoning for putting in the introduction stuff here, especially considering that this released in 1957, but I do think that it detracts from this album as a listening experience so I doubt I'll listen to it again due to that.

That’s a really intriguing 3.

There are lulls around the middle where the sound sorta loses its luster, but all 4 of the core styles here make for good listening. I enjoyed the first and last styles (Dádrá & Sindhi-Bhairavi) the most because they just sort of had a more natural and free-flowing vibe to them; you can feel these guys feeling the music come to them. It felt to me like that was a bit more deliberate in the Máru-Bihág and Bhimpalási styles, and that’s why I didn’t enjoy them as much, but they’re all good listens.

The only knock I might have on these tracks are the runtimes? I feel like it could’ve been possible to trim this down a little bit, but that’s a knock against the sort of flow I was talking about earlier and I’d be kind of a hypocrite. I don’t think I can go up to a 4 or a 5 because it is kind of just the same throughout, but it’s a very enjoyable listen regardless, and I feel good with a 3.