Vasant Rai - Spring Flowers (1976)

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Collin Walcott - Cloud Dance (1976)

Lovely instrumental pieces by Indian musician Vasant Rai. A vibrant aural tapestry of tabla, sitar, violin, guitar, oboe, French horn, fretless bass, and others, with Rai's sarod at the center.

Track listing:
1. Smile Goddess Sarasvati
2, Distant Village
3. Spring Wind
4. Guitarist from Unjha
5. Saptak
6. Leaving Home
7. Midnight Meditation

Sunlight dance

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Collin Walcott - Cloud Dance (1976)

Sitarist Collin Walcott's (also of Oregon fame) first solo album. Yes, he studied under Ravi Shankar. What's really interesting about this record is how, instead of creating some kind of whitewashed version of Indian music, the sitar and tabla are often simply folded into the pillowy, gently propulsive sounds of ECM jazz.

Track listing:
1. Margheritte
2. Prancing
3. Night Glider
4. Scimitar
5. Vadana
6. Eastern Song
7. Padma
8. Cloud Dance

Get to the moon lake

Oregon - Music of Another Present Era (1972)

Phenomenal debut album from this innovative group, whose members included, at the time, guitarist Ralph Towner, bassist Glen Moore, oboist Paul McCandless, and multi-instrumentalist Collin Walcott. Their distinct blending of Indian and 'Western' classical folk styles with jazz fusion and psychedelia has never sounded better than it does here.

Track listing:
1. North Star
2. The Rough Places Plain
3. Sail
4. At the Hawk's Well
5. Children of God
6. Opening
7. Naiads
8. Shard / Spring Is Really Coming
9. Bell Spirit
10. Baku the Dream Eater
11. The Silence of a Candle
12. Land of Heart's Desire
13. The Swan
14. Touchstone

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