Vinyl records

Shakti vinyl records

3 albums with 76 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Shakti are a group that play a novel acoustic fusion music which combines Indian music with elements of jazz. It was perhaps the earliest practitioner of the musical genre now known as 'world fusion'. The original band, formed in the mid-1970s, included the English guitar player John McLaughlin, and Indian musicians L. Shankar (violin), Zakir Hussain (tabla), R. Raghavan (Mridangam) and T. H. "Vikku" Vinayakram (Ghatam). In addition to fusing Western and Indian music, Shakti also represented a fusion of the Hindustani and Carnatic music traditions, since Hussain is from the North, but the other Indian members are from the South.