SHAKTI
Shakti was a group which played a novel acoustic fusion music which combined Indian music with elements of jazz. Its leading members were the English guitar player John McLaughlin and Indian violin player L. Shankar. It also included Zakir Hussain (on tabla), Ramnad Raghavan (on the Mridangam), and T. H. “Vikku” Vinayakram (on Ghatam). It came together in 1974, after the dissolution of the second incarnation of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and toured fairly extensively during the period 1975-1977; it made only sporadic appearances (with personnel changes) thereafter. (More from Wikipedia)
I have another album in my collection called Demonic Forces by a group called Shakti (not Shakti, the jazz-rock band of that name apparently) that has the same sort of Indian/Middle Eastern influences resonating through the music of Liquid Faeries. They might become a future UARB.
(February 2014)
