The first disc (totalling over 40 minutes) includes four rare tracks from different stages of Ravi Shankar's career - I Am Missing You (the Western version), Charu Keshi, Sandhya Raga and Morning Love - representing the many incarnations of this musical chameleon.
The second CD features a brand-new classical sitar performance by Ravi Shankar, accompanied on sitar by his daughter, the young prodigy Anoushka, and on tabla by Bikram Ghosh. Raga Tilak Kamod was specially recorded in four sections at Abbey Road Studios, London, in August 1997. Also included on this disc is Dakshini, a previously unreleased South Indian-style instrumental out-take from the 1996 sessions which elicited Ravi Shankar's latest album, Chants of India, produced by and featuring George Harrison.
Each CD features a striking Indian decorative design which is silk-screened in dark brown and gold to match the rest of the Limited Edition set.
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