Remember Shakti: The Way of Beauty
by Partho Sen Gupta
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Actor: John McLaughlin, Zakir HussainDirector: Partho Sen Gupta
Brand: WEA DES Moines Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sunny Side Records
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DVD Review: On this DVD you'll find some beautyful performances and some boring ones.
Summary: 4 Stars
For example the Montreux one (the one in 1976) is absolutely great. They filmed just one song, "Joy", that features naturally John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain (the two founding members of Shakti) on Guitar and Tabla, and L. Sankar rocking the hell out of his violin, and T.H. "Vikku" Vinaykram on the gatham, a percussion similar to a giant jar. This performance is particularly powerful, all the musicans are in great form!
The same thing about two of the three songs on the more recent (John hair was white) "Live at Bombey" performance. The first one, for example, is great: it's called "Giriraj Sudha" and it features V. Selvaganesh on various percussions, Shankar Mahavadenon the voice (a very strong point on this song), A. K. Pallanivel on the tavil, another indian percussion, John, Zakir and the phenomenal mandolin player U. Shrinvas that wrote the song as well. The melody and the rhythm of this song is so frenetic, and even if John doesn't play a lot on it, the mandolin is still great
The weak point of this performance is of course the next song: "Shringar", featuring Shiv Kumar Sharma on the santur, a strange string instrument played with sticks. This song consist in a boring quarter-hour santur solo. Then percussions start to play, and it becomes more interesting. Only when John touches his strings the song touches the apex, but the rest of it is absolutely boring.
The best song on this performance is the last one: "Bell'alla", written by Zakir (the tabla player), that features also Bhattacharya, an incredible slide guitar player (the slide guitar is not the classic occidental one, but the indian one, that sounds like a sitar) and Sivamani, a drums player, probably with jazz influences.
Debashish's slide guitar and John's Gibson solos are incredible, so great and inventive. No one can beat them. The percussions solos are great too.
The next video is of another Montreux show, but this time dated 2004.
It featured John, Zakir, Shrinvas, Selvaganesh and Mahadaven, but it's quite boring: John guitar uses the same effect all the song long, and the singer says the same sentence during 10 minutes! So this performance is really poor.
So, as I said before, on this DVD there are good ones and bad ones: you just have to choose the right for you.
Anyway, the biggest difference between the old performances and the new ones, (in my opinion) is that while the olds were the "meeting point" between indian and jazz music, the new ones are like indian music with a jazz guitar player, like a stranger. Maybe they forgot what was Shakti about in 70's, or maybe it's just me...
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