{"id":5667,"date":"2012-04-24T08:08:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2012-04-24T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:08:34","slug":"anoushka-shankar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/anoushka-shankar\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOUSHKA SHANKAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5668\" title=\"ANOUSHKA-SHANKAR-M-Review-MarApr2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ANOUSHKA-SHANKAR-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ANOUSHKA-SHANKAR-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ANOUSHKA-SHANKAR-M-Review-MarApr2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>A<\/strong><strong>NOUSHKA SHANKAR<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Traveller<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Deutsche Gammophon]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s no longer enough to say that sitarist\u00a0 and composer Anoushka Shankar is keeping alive the legacy of her iconic father,\u00a0Ravi Shankar. With two decades of experience on the instrument and several albums that explore diverse aspects of her artistry\u2014from traditional solo Indian classical to experimental full-band works that integrate Indian elements with cutting-edge electronica\u2014Shankar is constantly moving the\u00a0sitar into places it\u2019s rarely if ever visited. On <em>Traveller<\/em>, she investigates her love of flamenco. Produced by Spain\u2019s Javier Lim\u00f3n, who also contributes guitar, <em>Traveller<\/em> is all drama and fire, rumination\u00a0and daring\u2014a confluence of dense, percussion-heavy rhythms\u00a0and virtuosic, bright-hued melodic improvisations. The title track practically rocks, Shankar peeling out complex lines in tandem with layers of percussion and an especially exotic shehnai (an oboe-like Indian instrument). <em>Traveller <\/em>is one of the most inspired, accessible and far-reaching efforts yet from an artist who has not only absorbed her father\u2019s lessons but\u00a0transcended them. \u2013J. Tamarkin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANOUSHKA SHANKAR Traveller [Deutsche Gammophon] It\u2019s no longer enough to say that sitarist\u00a0 and composer Anoushka Shankar is keeping alive the legacy of her iconic father,\u00a0Ravi Shankar. With two decades of experience on the instrument and several albums that explore diverse aspects of her artistry\u2014from traditional solo Indian classical to experimental full-band works that integrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,3390,3392,3303,3391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}