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Artist (degree
of separation from Ravi Shankar*) - Song - Album
hour
1 -
Autorickshaw (2) - Aaj Ki Raat - So the Journey Goes
Angelique Kidjo (3) - Ae Ae - Djin Djin
Ray Lema (4), Professor Stefanov & Ensemble Pirin - Forest
Orchestra - Planet Soup
Chico Cesar (5) - Tambores - Aos Vivos
Bole2Harlem – Tigist Shibabaw (4) - Endegena - Bole2Harlem
Vol. 1
Vusi Mahlasela (5) - Jabula - Guiding Star
Celia Cruz (3) w/ Johnny Pacheco - Rico Changui - The Rough
Guide to Celia Cruz
Cheb Mami (3) - Parisen Du Nord - Arabesque
Mino Cinelu (3) - Why Not - Mino Cinelu
Etienne Mbappe (5) - Ee to Kem - Misiya
Toumani Diabate (6) Symmetric Orchestra - Single - Boulevard
de L’independence
James Whetzel (2) w/ Vishal Nagar - Dha, Vivid Response to
Life - Capitol Hill: Secret Tracks
Ravi Shankar (0) w/ Ali Akbar Khan - Bilashkani Todi - The
Rough guide to Ravi Shankar
hour
2 -
IndiaLucia - Taliquete - IndiaLucia
Lo’Jo - De Timbuktu a Essakane - Bazar Savant
Slavic Soul Party - Opa Cupa - Teknocheck Collision
Ceu - Mais um Lamento - Ceu
Aurelio Martinez - Mala Mujer - Garifuna Soul
Burning Spear - Walk - Putumayo World Party
Konono No. 1 - Mama Liza - Congrotronics 1
Luna Blanca - Island Reggae - Guitar Islane
Fabian Beghin & Didier Laloy - The Drop - Cryptonique
American Bhangra - Yaaran Naal Baharaan - The Debut Album
Tinariwen - Toumast - Aman Iman
Caetano Veloso - Musa Hibrida - Ce
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Juan Loco - Rodrigo y Gabriela
*
Degrees of Separation from Ravi Shankar
Suba
Sankaran (2) of Autorickshaw is the daughter of Trichy
Sankaran (1) whose drumming was recorded at All India Radio
when just 10 years old by Ravi Shankar, who was then the
All India Radio orchestra conductor.
Angelique
Kidjo (3) appears on the album African Fantasy
by Trilok Gurtu (2) who worked with John McLaughlin
(1) who studied with Ravi Shankar.
Ray
Lema (4) contributed to the album The Rhythmatist by Stewart
Copeland (3) who was in The Police with Sting
(2) who has recorded
with Anoushka Shankar (1) daughter of Ravi Shankar.
Chico
Cesar (5) toured in 2005 with Ray Lema (4) who contributed
to the album The Rhythmatist by Stewart Copeland (3)
who was in The Police with Sting (2) who has recorded
with Anoushka
Shankar (1) daughter of Ravi Shankar.
Tigist
Shibabaw (3) (who sings withBole2Harlem) is the sister of
Gigi (2) who has strong ties, including in
the group Tabla
Beat Science, to Bill Laswell (2) and Zakir Hussain
(1) who has performed with Ravi Shankar.
Vusi
Mahlasela (5) is a friend (and records on the ATO
label of) Dave Matthews (4) who appears on the
album
Black Ivory
Soul by Angelique Kidjo (3) who appears on African
Fantasy by Trilok Gurtu (2) who worked with John
McLaughlin (1)
who studied with Ravi Shankar.
Celia
Cruz (3) worked with Tito Puente (2) who performed with Zakir
Hussain (1) who performed with Ravi
Shankar.
Cheb Mami (3) did the duet “Desert Rose” with
Sting (2) whose album Sacred Love featured Anoushka Shankar
(1) daughter
of Ravi Shankar. Mino
Cinelu (3) appeared on Nothing Like the Sun by Sting (2)
whose album Sacred Love featured Anoushka
Shankar
(1) daughter
of Ravi Shankar.
Etienne
Mbappé (5) is part of the African Jazz Trio,
a group formed in 2006 along with Francis Lassus
(5) and Ray Lema (4) who contributed to the album The Rhythmatist
by Stewart
Copeland (3) who was in The Police with Sting
(2) who has
recorded with Anoushka Shankar (1) daughter of
Ravi Shankar.
Toumani
Diabate (6) included on his latest album Boulevard de L’independence
bass work by Etienne Mbappé (5)
who is part of the African Jazz Trio with Ray
Lema (4) who contributed to the album The Rhythmatist by
Stewart
Copeland
(3) who was in The Police with Sting (2) who
has recorded with Anoushka Shankar (1) daughter of Ravi Shankar.
James
Whetzel (2) studied with Ali Akbar Khan (1) who plaed with
Ravi Shankar [and Ali
Akbar Khan’s sister Annapurna
(1) is married to Ravi Shankar]
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