L. Shankar - Touch Me There (full album)
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- 1979 LP version.
00:00 Dead Girls Of London
05:24 Windy Morning
09:22 Knee Deep In Heaters
15:01 Little Stinker
18:25 Darlene
21:21 Touch Me There
24:24 No More Mr. Nice Girl
32:39 Love Gone Away - Hudba
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During his solo on 'Dead Girls', L Shankar's violin burst into flames half way though, and exploded after he hit the last note. No one was injured, except for the ego of every rock guitar soloist ever.
Perfect 🌹
SO true..🌟
Lol.....
(And he's back! Playing again)
I see picking out dead girls of London is interesting, because the only reason you did is, because Frank Zappa wrote the song, and even more too note is the fact that Frank Zappa produced this album, which is the only reason you have visible comments on this youtube page. Zappa did not create musical material or direction with one goal in achieving subversive ideas like you’re little guitar insult. He made music for music and music only. Don’t step out of line like a hot shot really would. Zappa played guitar himself with plenty of rock. Christ, have to bring up Zappa when it’s not even a Zappa album, he just produced it, gotta bring up Zappa, because the only reason you brought up the first song is, because it’s a fucking Zappa tune so you’re a just another poser without a soul, wow, wish I could get around the Internet without that.
Did it shatter Guthrie govans ego too?, or are you another Guthrie govan biased person?
THEE MOST UNDERATED ALBUM EVER
SO TRUE! 🌹
Can’t believe L.Shankar’s not much more popular here.
How am I just now finding out about this record? I’ve been listening to Zappa for 20 years, and L. Shankar for 15 years. I knew they had played together live a few times, but I had no idea Zappa had produced an album for Shankar.
That's alright, you have now stumbled onto lovely music and light right here!
I am grateful to my father for introducing me to this music 20 years ago 😁
L Shankar is such a BEAUTIFUL musical mind. SO dynamic in his playing. 🌹
One of the most incredible recordings ever.
The violin solo on 'Dead Girls', in my opinion, is the finest electric stringed instrument solo ever.
@@Percopius I agree. The way he jumps into it, and then how he lands out of it over the bar line of the "head' of the tune is as amazing as the solo itself.
@@Percopius Not opinion, fact!
It IS the finest electric stringed instrument solo ever! 🙏🏻
Wonderful, an amazing colaboration of Zappa with great maestro L. Shankar
EVERY human emotion is fully realized on this album. 🌹
Yet another wonderful album produced by Mr. Zappa
what?? he only produced 2 two albums
Shankar on violin 🎻 is a virtuoso like no other. He is simply in a class by himself. With his training in South Indian carnatic music 🎶as a child, and his subsequent education in western music, and a talent given by existence, that is at a supreme level;
Shankar is a world 🌎 treasure.
I have been blessed to see him and Zakir Hussain on tabla 3 times; in Berkeley, S.F. and Marin. So incredible, beyond words.
My friend had this album back then, and it still is a marvel. Come on people, get it released to download. At least it's here!
Bless you Shankar for blessing us with your otherworldly music; and for playing your violin 🎻 again, after a 'Shenkar' hiatus.
Such glorious tones, and tremendous, fluid playing. The violin is an instrument, especially in your hands, that surpasses human understanding. Only the heart can receive it. Loud and clear!
STILL in top 10 of my all time favorite albums of my life. 🌹🖤🌹🖤🌹
Out of many 1000s...
YEAH!!
Going to see L. Shankar in LA April 22! 🙏🏻🌹
I have "Darlene" on repeat. It reminds me of love.
I have ‘no more mr nice girl’ on repeat
NOW THAT I’VE LEARNT THAT IT EXISTS!! This full album is mindblowingly beautiful and complex. Like I can’t say how many times I fell out of the 🛋!
I’ve listened to this album at least 1000 times, probably more since it was released in 1979..
Darlene is entirely based on the carnatic music (indian classical) raga called Bilahari. You should try someone playing classical bilahari too! It's known to be a peppy and uplifting mode.
This song has a special place in my memory the merging of talents such as Zappa and Shankar leave me.....well speechless at times
One of my favorites in college 1979
In Alex Winter's Zappa doc Alice Cooper says Zappa could have written countless hits if he wanted to and then later Ian Underwood "replies" that he was not interested in writing hits. My take? Zappa was interested in context and beauty! And sometimes that coincides with popular tastes but mostly not. This album is a GREAT example where accessibility marries depth !!!!
Well phrased! I'd read if you/someone wrote a paper on this album.
Bass - Dave Marquee
Drums - Simon Phillips
Electric Piano, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer - James Lascelles
Engineer - Geoff Young
Mandolin, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar - Phil Palmer
Mastered By - Bob Stone
Mixed By - Mick Glossop
Producer - Frank Zappa
Violin [Acoustic], Electric Violin [5 String], Vocals, Synthesizer [String Orchestra] - Shankar
thanx for posting heard dead girls once or twice on radio when the album came out, to very bad reviews.
Lovely album! Zappa is a genius, Shankar makes love to the violin and gets it to sing his tunes. Great, great music! Have a good one, you. Glad you found this.
Such a beautiful Record. I love the Zappa comedy influence, it really is amazing
thought the same to myself yesterday
@ Little Stinker is such a blast!! Loved this..
One of the greatest driving songs ever!
Windy Morning is amazing.
agree
It is!!!!
"15:01" - Little stinker blew me away!!
i love this album
Do you know something Francesco so do I.saw L shanker with. McLaughlins Shari and bought this album when came out.And got a great Zappa influence on it.just superb.
This album is a master piece
Such a magnificent album produced and played on by the greatest musical mind to ever walk this Earth,another great Italian,Mr Frank Zappa.listen to Ponty's Enigmatic Ocean and you may hear Many similarities,poth playing the violin aside, it's the influencef FZ.Absolutly in my top twenty albums..FZ= Stucco Holmes
that whole last vamp section of Mr Nice Girl is PURE FZ. I literally l'dol
So happy to have found this again! Thanks!
same here
That last tune got overshadowed by the rest of the album. Until now. Wow.
His acoustic violin had 5 strings, when normally they have 4. So thats cool to begin with. But Shankar said, no, I need twice that many! And had his maker develop his 10 string electric violin 🎻 🤣. So you didn't blow our minds enough in Shakti, you had to get a whole orchestra at your fingertips!?
All love and gratitude 🙏 beloved Shankar
Fantastic! Wonderful!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
19:30 bliss starts flowing 🙏🙏🙏🙏
En 1979, Frank Zappa brilló con un violinista de rock / jazz de la India Oriental, L. Shankar. Tanto es así que produjo un álbum con él, "Touch Me There". No solo produce Frank, sino que también escribe la mitad del álbum y actúa en un corte, "Dead Girls of London". Entonces, no es de extrañar, este disco suena como gran parte del material que Zappa estaba lanzando en ese momento, a pesar de que técnicamente es un álbum de "Shankar".
Después de obtener una licenciatura en física en la India, Shankar se mudó a Estados Unidos en 1969 y obtuvo un doctorado en etnomusicología en la Universidad Wesleyan. Aquí conoció a los músicos de jazz Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Garrison y John McLaughlin mientras trabajaba como asistente de enseñanza y maestro de concierto de la Orquesta de Cámara de la Universidad. En 1975 Shankar y McLaughlin fundaron Shakti, una colaboración pionera, innovadora y muy influyente entre Oriente y Occidente, con un sonido fluido que logró combinar con éxito tradiciones aparentemente incompatibles. Su primer álbum en solitario, Touch Me There, fue producido por Frank Zappa en 1979. [3] Shankar fundó su propia banda, The Epidemics, en 1982, con la compositora Caroline. Lanzó tres álbumes con la banda.
Durante la década de 1980, Shankar grabó periódicamente como líder, haciendo tanto material basado en el jazz como música clásica india. Su lanzamiento en 1980 del álbum Who's To Know en ECM introdujo el sonido único de su propia invención, el violín doble estereofónico de diez cuerdas. Este instrumento, diseñado por Shankar y construido por el reconocido guitarrista Ken Parker, cubre toda la gama orquestal, incluyendo contrabajo, chelo, viola y violín. Recientemente ha desarrollado una versión más nueva de su instrumento que es mucho más ligera que la original. [3]
1990 vio a Shankar coproducir una película de una hora dirigida por H. O. Nazareth, que luego fue nominada a la Mejor Película Documental en el festival de cine de Cannes. Shankar trabajó en la partitura de la película The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), compuesta por Peter Gabriel, con su música terminando en ambos álbumes de la partitura - Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ and Passion - Sources. Ganó un Grammy por su trabajo en este último en 1994. 1996 fue nominado al Grammy para el álbum Raga Aberi. [1] Shankar ha actuado en varios de los discos de Peter Gabriel como So and Us. Desde 1996, Shankar realizó una gira internacional con su compañero violinista (y su sobrina) Gingger como "Shankar & Gingger", obteniendo aclamación y popularidad de la crítica. [4] Los dos actuaron en eventos como el concierto de Global Harmony y las celebraciones del 80 cumpleaños de Nelson Mandela. Shankar y Gingger lanzaron su primer DVD One in a Million en 2001. Luego de una gira de éxito crítico por América del Norte, el DVD pasó al número 1 en los charts de Neilsen Soundscan DVD y se quedó allí por cuatro semanas. [3] En 2004, Shankar compuso música adicional con Gingger Shankar para John Debney y actuó en el score de la película La Pasión de Cristo (2004).
Shankar ha tocado con algunos de los mejores músicos contemporáneos de su tiempo, incluyendo a Lou Reed, Echo & the Bunnymen, Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Charly García, Jonathan Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Stewart Copeland, Yoko Ono, AR Rahman, John Waite, Steve Vai, Ginger Baker, Toto, Nils Lofgren, Mark O'Connor y Sting. [3] Shankar ha sido elogiado por su habilidad para mezclar influencias orientales y occidentales, asimilando la música de Carnatic con el pop, el rock, el jazz y la música mundial contemporánea. [5] Él admite que "en última instancia, me gustaría unir Oriente y Occidente. Ese es, creo, mi rol", dice.
Más recientemente, Shankar ha utilizado un nuevo nombre artístico, Shenkar, y ha creado grabaciones con este nombre. En 2006 2007, Shenkar proporcionó la voz para la música de crédito de apertura y otros temas para todos los episodios de la exitosa serie de televisión Heroes. Últimamente ha trabajado en los próximos discos de Jonathan Davis, Stephen Day y Ana Maria Lombo.
Notable presencia de "Pancho" en algunos pasajes de este gran disco, por suerte conservo el vinilo aun, el "Maestro" siempre presente en cada gran musico del planeta.
Been looking for this album since then.. THANX
Great LP!
How is this album NOT on Apple Music or Spotify?!
Tal cual, es una pena.
I think that there's a lawsuit involving CBS records
awesome!!!
One of the most eclectic fusion albums of that era. This was released at the height of my deep dive into jazz violin. No diss to Ponty or Urbaniak, but Shankar is the most unique, adventurous & talented of them all imo. Saw him with Shakti too. Mind blowing skillz! His mastery & feel within those eastern scales elevates him above the rest. js. that random little nursery rhyme reggae ting is so hilariously dope - in a Fijian way! You wouldn't even overstand lmao. The whole Mahavishnu vibe is infectious af too. I always hoped Shankar would become the 5th member of Return to Forever, & Hendrix would become E.L.P.'s guitsy. Imagine that! Great trip down memory lane. Thnx 🙏
This drumpart is a top amusement .
A pal bought this when it came out. I asked her to do me a tape, obviously. She refused, she said the title was enough. This is the first time I've heard it. It sure is interesting .............................
Gran disco !!!
Shankar is playing his violin again!
After a long, long hiatus as Shenkar. And using his name Shankar again.
Thank existence!
I haven’t heard this since 94 when I left Boston and my cousin threw out my Zappa collection which included this record that I owned since it came out ...Great Stuff
*Ex cousin
The Guitarist on this album is Phil Palmer! The mix of Dead Girls is the same mix as the one with the Van Morrison vocal, except its got an FZ vocal! This album is one of Those albums! Every home should have one!
Produced by Stucco Homes, who also contributed vocal tracks. (AKA FZ).
Simon Phillips on the drums！
Incredible.
Right! And yet he said he was disappointed in this album. I can't imagine why.
This vinyl version sounds better to me than the what's on the CD. On this particular tune during the loud part it sound less compressed than the CD file.
The CD sounds awful. It has no 'punch' at all!
Unfortunate that CD doesn't sound the same,but I have an early pressing copy on Vinyl.The crispness and clarity really part of the brilliance of this album. What is it over 30 years and it always sounds fresh and new.
Yeah, the CD was part of the batch of completely botched FZ reissues of the late '80s/early '90s. Mastering compressor was set incorrectly, causing weird left/right panning effect. Also, poor EQ choices. Most unpleasant, and most unfortunate. So glad to have a nice LP copy.
No More Mr. Nice Girl; Dripping with FZ.
FZ & L. S made a fine combo!!
Let's hear it for Mick Glossop's work on this album.
Be great to start with Windy Morning, a fantastic tune, and leave out Zappa's vocals...
Shankar has some fantastic playing on Talking Head's "Speaking in Tongues" album too.
I love Shankar, and this is a great record, but lets be honest - its a Zappa record that features Shankar's playing.
Shankar wrote this music
Zappa in New York Christmas Eve 1976, sat in the third row. Shankar came out in a chicken costume and blew every other musician off the stage. Why was his performance cut from the album? Lawyers? Contracts?
Jealousy perhaps?
Simon Phillips on drums (!)
Why is this album not in Spotify
L'ho trovato! Che faccio, lo compro? Il disco è diseguale: a brani di matrice 'zappiana', come quello d'apertura, fanno seguito episodi più incerti come la titletrack, in cui canta Jenny Lautrec; oppure ''Knee Deep In Heaters'', brano in stile reggae cantato dallo stesso Shankar. In verità, gli strumentali sono le vere perle del disco. Ascoltare per credere! Allora, che ne pensate di ''Little Stinker''? E di ''No More Mr. Nice Girl'', diviso equamente tra folklore e bizzaria? Ecco, le due facce di questo lavoro: l'una, melodica e ammiccante; l'altra, graffiante e fantasiosa. Prodotto da Frank Zappa. Lo compro?
frank zappa genius musicn
OMG, who wrote that incredibly simple piano solo on No More Mr. Nice Girl?
If I remember correctly ...ZAPPA is credited as "STUCCO HOMES" on this record
how do you misspell his name when its right on the front of the record?
Theodore Nugent 😂
Probably spelt it that way as that's how Shankar spells in now
lol
If you merely use the same machine you are using to post your whiny complaint and look up L Shankar/Shenkar/Shanker you will see that he uses all three - The L. is actually what we would refer to as a last name (even though it goes first) and comes from his father's first name - THE Shankar (or however you chose to spell it) is actually his First name - his child would be S. (fill in the blank) ____________ ...
@@cliffordsaunders2689 Congratulations, you didn't address what I said in any way whatsoever! I've followed the guy for 30 years and never seen it spelled any other way, but I guess you're the expert.
Whatever happened to the take of The Dead Girls Of London with the Van Morrison Vocal?
I remember that!
Frank and Morrison were both signed to Warner Brothers at the time when they recorder that version at the same time Frank was having problem with company as always so broke away from company to start zappa records then him ike Willis re recorded them as lead vocals
@@Jazzman_14 i read somewhere that a radio station played it and frank recorded THAT, so thats what we hear lol
And who the other musicians are?
R.I.P. Frank Zappa
Any idea what the size of his 5-string is?
5-string Barcus Berry from 1976.
A full size 4/4 Romanian or German violin modified by Barcus with their own incredible pickup bridge, Thomastic tail piece and fitted with 5 strings.
Same as Ponty’s blue one
@@barrysmith8920 Thank you so much. I've used the L.R. Baggs system and really like it. L. Shankar had some kind of synthesizer going too, no?
@@jonobester5817 You’re welcome. Most all used the Barcus bridge pickup back then;
Jobson, Kaminski, Sugarcane, Ponty, etc. it was all there was.
No, Shankar only played violin on this album. Over dubbed many times of course.
@@barrysmith8920 There's so awfully wide portamentos that have to be processed somehow. Forget which tune. One of the slower ones.
@@jonobester5817 yes, he’s been one of my top 3 fave violin players of any era or style for over 40 years.
He’s doing an incredibly rare tour of only 5 or 6 cities in America starting in NYC on April 2.
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Voodoo is hated by indish people that never eat Flesh ... but this man made a disc with him. It's a shame that this devil is with distance the best and only one componist of all ....