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"I Am Missing You" is a song by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, sung by his sister-in-law Lakshmi Shankar and released as the lead single from his 1974 album ''Shankar Family & Friends''. The song is a rare Shankar composition in the Western pop genre, with English lyrics, and was written as a love song to the Hindu god Krishna. The recording was produced and arranged by George Harrison, in a style similar to Phil Spector's signature sound, and it was the first single issued on Harrison's Dark Horse record label. Other contributing musicians include Tom Scott, Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, Ringo Starr and Jim Keltner. A second version appears on ''Shankar Family & Friends'', titled "I Am Missing You (Reprise)", featuring an arrangement closer to a folk ballad. Shankar and Harrison performed "I Am Missing You" throughout their North American tour in November–December 1974. As a forerunner to the 1980s world music genre, these live performances of the song brought together Shankar's orchestra of distinguished Indian classical musicians – among them, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shivkumar Sharma, Alla Rakha, T.V. Gopalkrishnan, L. Subramaniam and Sultan Khan – and Harrison's band of top rock, jazz and funk players. The Harrison-arranged studio version of "I Am Missing You" appeared on Shankar's career-spanning box set ''Ravi Shankar: In Celebration'', released in 1996. Shankar reinterpreted "I Am Missing You" for his 2005 project Jazzmin, featuring Californian jazz musicians and his daughter Anoushka on sitar. ==Background and composition== Having trained formally in the Hindustani classical idiom and performed as a sitarist since the 1940s,〔Shankar, ''My Music, My Life'', pp. 83–86.〕〔Ken Hunt, ("Ravi Shankar: Biography" ), AllMusic (retrieved 24 October 2013).〕 Ravi Shankar wrote his first Western pop composition, "I Am Missing You", in the early 1970s.〔 Although known primarily as an instrumentalist in the West through his interpretation of Indian ragas,〔''World Music: The Rough Guide'', pp. 70–71.〕 Shankar's previous work in the vocal tradition had included ballet productions for the Indian National Theatre〔Lavezzoli, p. 54.〕 and the Triveni Kala Sangam.〔Shankar, ''My Music, My Life'', p. 98.〕 More recently, he had recorded two short vocal pieces on his 1971 EP ''Joi Bangla'',〔Lavezzoli, p. 190.〕 released as a benefit disc for refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War.〔Spizer, p. 341.〕〔Leng, pp. 111, 112.〕 Shankar later recalled of the moment he composed "I Am Missing You": "I don't know how I did it, but one day I wrote an English song without thinking …"〔Book accompanying Ravi Shankar–George Harrison, ''Collaborations'' box set (Dark Horse Records, 2010; produced by Olivia Harrison), p. 19.〕 He played the composition to his friend, ex-Beatle George Harrison, who liked it immediately.〔 Harrison told British DJ Nicky Horne in August 1974:〔Madinger & Easter, p. 442.〕 "It just blew my mind, because I heard it from my pop background. I said (him ), 'That's a hit … It's a lovely song – you should write more of these, Ravi.' And he said, 'Oh, you know, I've been trying ''not'' to write these for years.'"〔("At the Starting Gate" ), Contra Band Music, 21 August 2012 (retrieved 22 October 2013).〕 Often referred to with the accompanying parenthetical title "(Krishna, Where Are You?)",〔 "I Am Missing You" is a love song dedicated to the Hindu god Krishna.〔Lavezzoli, p. 195.〕〔 In the choruses, Shankar's words mourn the apparent absence of Krishna from his life, but in the repeated verses he acknowledges: "''Though I can't see you / I hear your flute all the while.''"〔Lyric sheet, ''Shankar Family & Friends'' CD (Dark Horse Records, 2010; produced by George Harrison).〕 The latter line reflects the importance of the flute – or bansuri – in the Hindu tradition,〔Tillery, p. 67.〕 since it is the musical instrument most commonly associated with the deity.〔Leng, p. 157fn.〕〔Lavezzoli, p. 33.〕 In his second autobiography, ''Raga Mala'' (1997), Shankar describes the words as "a simple lyric that just gushed out of me when I was travelling on a plane".〔Shankar, ''Raga Mala'', p. 222.〕 Speaking to journalist Graham Reid in 1998, Shankar recalled: "I think we were travelling somewhere in the States … it was very short, maybe six or eight lines. It came very spontaneously with the tune and I noted it down."〔Graham Reid, ("Ravi Shankar Interviewed (1998): In the house of the master" ), Elsewhere, 18 August 2013 (retrieved 13 August 2014).〕 In addition to the lyrics being in English rather than Hindi or Bengali, the latter being Shankar's first language,〔Shankar, ''My Music, My Life'', pp. 70, 77.〕 the song's melody follows Western convention,〔Clayson, p. 339.〕 with distinct chord changes instead of the single-chord, monodic〔''World Music: The Rough Guide'', p. 63.〕 drone common to Indian music.〔Lavezzoli, pp. 20, 21.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Am Missing You」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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