East Meets West Music has announced the release of Nine Decades Vol. 6, Ravi Shankar: Dutch-India Airwaves. This is a previously unreleased recording from the Ravi Shankar archive.
On May 27, 1957, Ravi Shankar (sitar), Chatur Lal (tabla) and Nodu Mallick (tanpura) performed in Amsterdam at the Concertgebouw. It was Shankar’s first concert as a solo artist in The Netherlands. Even though there is no audio of that concert, East Meets West Music obtained the music on this album, recorded earlier in the day at the Radio Netherlands studios in Hilversum. There is also an interview with Ravi Shankar, done in both Hindi and English, recorded at a museum in Leiden.
As a rare glimpse into Ravi Shankar’s early east-west travels, this installment of the Nine Decades series documents the excitement with which the western and eastern worlds greeted each other through the melodies, improvisations, and rhythmic cycles of Indian classical music.
Pieter de Rooij originally found these recordings in the Radio Netherlands Archives. The Radio Netherlands Worldwide Foundation donated this recording to the Ravi Shankar Foundation.
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