Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) (studio album)
by Ravi Shankar

Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) by Ravi Shankar
Year: 1956
Overall rank: 2,379th   
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76/100 (from 86 votes)
     
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Award Top 20 albums of 1956 (13th)
Award Top 100 albums of the 1950s (68th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,379th)

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Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) is ranked as the best album by Ravi Shankar.

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Overall rank: 2,379th | 1950s rank: 68th | 1956 rank: 13th

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From 10/20/2018 22:16 | #222814
The plethora of music from hundreds of different countries outside the western-world tends to get clumped into a single "World" genre which is incredibly trivialising and in all honesty really, really stupid. These records tend to be incredibly underrated in the western-world, especially in comparison to rock music from white british / american men (perhaps a few records from Africa and Asia will be picked out and be called "good for world music"). Here's the very best antidote to this bias.

These ragas are complex, mesmerising and sound truly timeless. This is an unbelievably beautiful record and as a person of (mostly) ethnically Indian origin yet living in england, "Music of India" is incredibly important to me. It is a statement that resonates with me and also broke cultural and geographical barriers in its day. Ravi Shankar is the virtuoso of all virtuosos.
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Heavenly, divine, celestial, immortal.
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A master at work.
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From 01/31/2016 06:09 | #158259
Mesmerizing
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