Description
Three years ago Anoushka Shankar released Traveller, an album for which she recorded fusions with flamenco musicians; the aim was to show how close the Spanish style still was to the Hindustani classical music out of which it had originally sprung. Now she has released an album called Home. The home this reflects is both the music she grew up with, and the man from whom she learned to play it: her father, Ravi Shankar. In a further tribute, the liner note is an essay her father wrote in 1965, in which he explained what raga music is, and what it portends: a form both strict and free, projecting the musician’s inner spirit and connecting him or her with the divine.
