New Owsley Stanley Foundation Release: Ali Akbar Khan-1970

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Coming out on December 15th.  Looks pretty interesting.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiapost.com/owsley-stanley-foundation...

Looks great. Thanks for sharing

I'm sure it will be good, but no spot taken.

Even with the immense quality of the players, traditional Indian music gets old for me quickly.

I keep hoping they'll release a show I saw in a small church in Berkeley in 1982 that Owsley recorded. Zakir Hussain & Mickey Hart were the opening act, the two of them just improvising with a vast array of percussion spread around the stage, which I thought was great.

The main act was Zakir & his father Allarakha playing together on tablas with someone on a harmonium (a droning keyboard thing).

I had never heard of Zakir before and was amazed by his playing that night and became a life-long fan, but as brilliant as he is on tablas, his father simply blew him away. His hands moved like humming bird wings, I've never really seen anything like it since. To this day it's the most amazing demonstration of ability on a musical instrument I've ever seen (and it kind of freaked me out a bit).

But even then, after a while the main set got a bit samey for me, as does all Indian music.

But I'd still buy that one, just because of my personal experience.