Sagar (The Ocean)
The 13-minute centrepiece of the debut and the one track Shankar played as a classical musician.
Ananda Shankar, from Ananda Shankar (1970)
- Written by
- Ananda Shankar, Paul Lewinson
- Released
- 1970
- Album
- Ananda Shankar
At 13:13 it opens side two and is the longest piece on the album. In his liner notes Shankar said he had used the sitar as a medium of expression and not as a classical musician, with the exception of Sagar, and Unterberger's liner essay calls it the only selection played in the Indian classical style. Time Out's John Lewis called it a 13-minute raga-rock epic. AllMusic's Jon Pruett wrote that after this more Indian-styled piece you realize the record could have been much more than it was.
More songs by Ananda Shankar
Jumpin' Jack Flash, Raghupati, Streets of Calcutta, Dancing Drums
Sources
- Ananda Shankar (album), Wikipedia
- Liner notes for Ananda Shankar's Ananda Shankar, Richie Unterberger
- Ananda Shankar's enduring genius, Scroll.in (2017-12-11)