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''Shankar Family & Friends'' (stylised as ''Shankar Family Friends'' on the album cover) is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, recorded primarily in Los Angeles during the spring of 1973, but not released until late 1974. It was produced by Shankar's friend George Harrison and one of the first releases on the ex-Beatle's Dark Horse label. Out of print for many years, and much sought after as a result, the album was remastered in 2010 and reissued as part of the Ravi Shankar–George Harrison box set ''Collaborations''. The title ''Shankar Family & Friends'' refers to the group-participation approach to the music, from Shankar's sister-in-law Lakshmi and son Shubho to a host of "friends" from the Indian subcontinent, Europe and the United States. In a deliberate blend of "East-meets-West" musical styles, other performers include Indian-music pioneers Alla Rakha, Ashish Khan, Shivkumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia, and Western musicians such as Tom Scott, Emil Richards, Billy Preston, Ringo Starr and Jim Keltner. The album features the Harrison-arranged pop ''bhajan'' "I Am Missing You" and a jazz-funk instrumental, "Dispute & Violence", the latter a part of an intended ballet, titled ''Dream, Nightmare & Dawn''. ==Background and recording== Although Harrison had served as Ravi Shankar's producer before – on the latter's 1971 Bangladesh relief EP ''Joi Bangla''; the soundtrack for the Apple documentary film ''Raga''; and a more recent live album with Ali Akbar Khan, recorded in New York – this was the first occasion that the two had collaborated on a studio album.〔Rodriguez, pp. 236–37.〕 Harrison would later refer to these and other projects with Shankar as one of his "little careers going on on the side", a series of rewarding collaborations that co-existed beside his solo career.〔(George Harrison – In His Own Words ), superseventies.com (retrieved 21 October 2012).〕 This time, although ''Shankar Family & Friends'' did begin life as an Apple Records project, the results would not be issued on the Beatles' label, but on Harrison's own Dark Horse Records.〔Clayson, p. 346.〕 The bulk of the recording took place in Los Angeles during April 1973, shortly after Harrison had completed work on his album ''Living in the Material World'' and that of Nicky Hopkins, recorded concurrently in London.〔Leng, pp. 138, 125.〕〔Lavezzoli, p. 195.〕 Arriving in Los Angeles in March, Harrison first attended Sunset Sound Studios, where former bandmate Ringo Starr's sessions for ''Ringo'' were getting under way.〔Badman, p. 92.〕 (It was at this point that Starr, Harrison, John Lennon, Billy Preston and Klaus Voormann recorded Lennon's track "I'm the Greatest" together, an event that immediately sparked rumours of a possible permanent reunion involving at least three of the four Beatles.〔Schaffner, p. 160.〕〔Badman, pp. 92, 94.〕) Starr, Preston, Voormann and Hopkins would all contribute to ''Shankar Family & Friends'' over the next couple of months.〔〔 Sessions began at A&M Studios, Los Angeles, on 1 April and continued into May, with a break towards the end of the first month.〔Badman, pp. 94, 98.〕 In addition to Starr, Preston et al., as producer, Harrison invited Tom Scott (on saxophones and flute), Emil Richards (marimbas), Jim Keltner (drums) and David Bromberg (guitar) along to participate.〔Rodriguez, p. 237.〕〔 A jazz arranger and composer, Scott had previously worked with Harihar Rao, a former student of Shankar's and now an ethnomusicologist at UCLA.〔("The Interview (21 April 1986)" ), The Unofficial Tom Scott Site (retrieved 26 December 2012).〕 These sessions marked the first time that Harrison and Scott worked together,〔 so beginning a loose partnership that would endure through much of the 1970s.〔Leng, pp. 138, 149, 187, 190–91.〕 For the Indian contingent, Shankar chose a cast of similarly illustrious names: Alla Rakha and Kamala Chakravarty, both of whom had supported him at the Concert for Bangladesh;〔Lavezzoli, pp. 191, 195.〕 Ashish Khan, Shivkumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia, on sarod, santoor and bamboo flute, respectively, who had all taken part in Harrison's 1968 sessions for the ''Wonderwall'' soundtrack album (and by extension, for the Beatles track "The Inner Light");〔MacDonald, p. 240.〕 and Lakshmi Shankar, L. Subramaniam and Harihar Rao, all of whom likewise went on to feature in the Music Festival from India venture the following year.〔Madinger & Easter, pp. 442, 447.〕 While the majority of the recording was completed during that spring at A&M, further sessions appear to have been required through to early 1974, at Harrison's Friar Park studio.〔〔Castleman & Podrazik, p. 139.〕 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「Shankar Family & Friends」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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