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Indian Sitar Stuff

While somewhat alone at the time, I rather enjoyed some of the sitar and sitar-influenced guitar work George brought to some of the Beatles songs. Just recently, I found an old Ravi Shankar LP "Three Ragas" on Pacific Jazz and really like many parts of that. Can people suggest pressings (LP's) of other similar instrumental-only Indian music featuring sitar. I am not huge on vocal pieces. Maybe if I understood. ;-)
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I have a small collection of classical Indian CDs. A sitar on a bad sounding system or badly recorded will send you to the off button quicker than anything. To date, the best sounding CD I have found is:

Imrat Khan (surbahar & sitar)
Shafaatullah Khan (tabla)
Raga Marwas
Nimbus Records

The surbahar is a "bass" sitar. Nice sound!

Nonesuch, Ryko, Water Lilly Acoustics, Nimbus, EMI all offer some great recordings. Will have to check out Connoisseur Society.
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I live in San Diego, CA and fortunately Ravi Shankar does too. He plays the local venues between world tours and I've seen him about once a year for 7 years or so. Unfortunately he is ~87 and the last time I saw him he had FINALLY slowed down. Maybe he was just nurturing his shoulder injury.

I don't listen to Ravi much at home, but a live performance is an incredible experience not to miss.

I'm very interested in others selections of Indian and other "world" music on indigenous instruments playing "originals" from the 14th century, or whatever. I'll post some additional favorite recordings soon, but consider:

Hamza El Din (oud / 4 string, fretless lute)
ESCALAY (The Water Wheel).
oud and tabla, a bit of vocals. wow! Nubian, not Indian, but check it out.
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