Portrait Of Genius (studio album) by Ravi Shankar
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Ravi Shankar bestography
Portrait Of Genius is ranked 4th best out of 37 albums by Ravi Shankar on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ravi Shankar is Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) which is ranked number 2416 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 663.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 11/11/2024 00:24 | BorderFreeAndrew | | 74/100 |
90/100 | 10/02/2024 00:19 |  Cardboardfolder | | 88/100 |
70/100 | 04/27/2024 09:23 |  DommeDamian | | 49/100 |
80/100 | 07/14/2023 12:56 | LosWochos | | 75/100 |
35/100 | 03/25/2023 11:14 |  Igtonumama | | 61/100 |
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dihansse 03/09/2021 20:54
Ravi Shankar is the best known Indian classical artist which of course has lots to do with his connections with Yehudi Menuhin and especially George Harrison. He is a genius on the Indian sitar which at least has 18 strings and on this album he plays a number of shorter raga-like songs and also a real 20 minutes raga at the the end. The raga is a kind of improvisational piece but subject to very strict rules and on this album we mostly hear his sitar, a tabla (drum) and flute performed by a western jazz flutist Paul Horn.
I fairly like this mesmerizing but finally very melodic type of music and listening to this album was worthwhile but all in all maybe not a keeper for this western ear.
A lesser work in comparison to his utterly brilliant debut "Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas)", however "Portrait of Genius" is indeed a portrait of a genius that can still create such gorgeous compositions. The only problem here are the lengths of the songs. I wish every single track was longer except the final track, "Raga Multani", which does manage to reach the heights set by "Three Classical Ragas".
RoundTheBend 03/06/2016 02:53
More Rythmic than the last Ravi Shankar album I listened to, Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas). Very fun listen.
One of the two or three Shankar albums that changed the course of music through the influence it had on fellow musicians (David Crosby, George Harrison et al). Apart from that, it is just simply enjoyable and ravishing.
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