Word: shankar
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...Anoushka Shankar Rise With a Grammy nomination in 2003, sitar prodigy Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi, has already made her mark on Indian classical music. For her fourth album, Shankar has allowed Midival Punditz's Gaurav Raina, acting as producer, to jettison the traditional sound of her earlier work in favor of something altogether less orthodox, just as her father teamed up with Beatle George Harrison a generation ago. The album's anchor remains Shankar's dreamy sitar, but it also draws on electronica, jazz, rock, and African rhythms. Best track: the mesmerizing...
...dance feel, but they are more measured and the beats are as likely to be hammered out by hand as manufactured on a synthesizer. The languid Raanjhan is the definitive track here. Saathi, featuring the voice and sarangi of Khan, will please purists old enough to remember Ravi Shankar at Woodstock while fitting right alongside Buddha Bar in their teenage sons' collections...
...lighting in “Raisins, Not Virgins” deserves special mention. Harvard Law School student Shankar Duraiswamy, the lighting designer, uses spotlights in the same scene as standard lighting to highlight characters, and occasionally drenches the stage in red. Without going over the top, he accentuates the characters’ emotions in each scene...
...Elprin, Jonathan S. Gnoza, Caroline A. Gross, Liora R. Halperin, Veronica R. Heller, Andrew E. Holm, Margaret T. Hsieh, Honor Hsin, Andy Itsara, Jennie A. Johnson, Nicholas F. M. Josefowitz, also a Crimson editor, Emily A. Kendall, David V. Kimel, Mihuan Li, Chang C. Liu, Raluca I. Manea, Shankar A. Nair, Max C. Nicholas, Antonio L. Perez, Shira R. A. Pinnas, Alexander J. Post, Karl C. Procaccini, Krishna A. Rao, Michael B. Schnall-Levin, Julia A. Stephens, Aditya V. Sunderam, Manik V. Suri, Vaughn Y. H. Tan, Nadim N. Vasanji, Ajit Vyas, Daniel B. Weissman, R. Christian Wyatt, Yan Xuan...
Being a friend to all can be a terrible burden, and inevitably there were those who found Jones' gentle omnipresence and memorable bio--her father is sitar legend Ravi Shankar, 83--a bit cloying. Skeptics were soon interpreting enthusiasm as hype and positing that Come Away with Me was merely a follow-up to the O Brother, Where Art Thou? sound track and Buena Vista Social Club--a pleasant little genre album that flattered its listeners' sense of eclecticism. Never mind that her success was the rare intersection of ubiquity and quality; to "real" music fans, the fact that nobody...