| Identifier | 9457531 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | cd flac |
| Media Count | 1 |
| Note | Shakti
John McLaughlin- acoustic guitar Zakir Hussain- tabla L. Shankar- violin T.H. "Vikku" Vinayakram- ghatam I.S. Murgesh- percussion Susan & Minta- sruti box Berklee Performance Center Boston, Mass. U.S.A. November 4, 1977 performance quality: A, a great performance in a real nice place for it recording quality: B+ source: 1st generation audience tape runtime: 87:54 setlist: 1: tuning 3:39 2: la danse du bonheur 13:14 3: peace of mind 10:12 4: India 18:06 5: kriti 5:31 6: get down and sruti 28:42 7: encore: lotus feet 8:27 lineage: Sony 152 deck, unknown microphones (good ones) > TDK-SA master cassette (dolby B on) > my cassette (Maxell XLII-S, copied Nak. to Nak. w/dolby off) > soundforge 4.5 > FLAC 6 > torrent. first seeded in 2008, reseeded in 2010 with runtimes added and a flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned) reconversion to remove the sbe's. comments: "Shakti" is a Hindu word meaning sacred force, power or energy, and it's a fitting name for this outfit, here performing one of their last shows before a very long interruption of recording albums or touring. It featured some of the greatest musicians of India, some of their instruments are not very familiar outside of Indian music, and their music is truly a style of its own. This original Shakti band of 1975-77 has one official live release which is very nice, from their July 5, 1975 show at Southampton College, Long Island, N.Y. and their 2 Montreux concerts of July 6, 76 and July 8, 77 are both available in a 17 disc boxset of John McLaughlin Live in Montreux (several of his shows, although the earliest Mahavishnu one is from 1974, not the original one unfortunately). There were 2 shows this night by Shakti, I don't know which one this is but I think it is the early show. There may be one flip cut in here, it's very close to the whole show and it is nice sound quality, I'd say fairly comparable to the sound of the Boston 76 Shakti show upped on dime by shopkin. That's from the Handful of Beauty tour, this is near the end of the Natural Elements tour (the final show was in Phila. 3 days after this one. The whole thing runs about 85 minutes. Since Shakti had to cancel out of their early 77 Berklee concert (with Oregon!) and played the Orpheum in 76, these 2 shows were Shakti's 1st in the acoustically delightful Berklee. The wooden walls provide very good sound resonance for this kind of music and the performance was solid. In my opinion, the finest acoustic band around, and a show with Oregon would have been a showcase of the 2 best, in my view. Maybe because that was to be my 1st Shakti concert (and McLaughlin recording) and Shakti cancelled out of that, I didn't see this show. Wish I had. Even though they didn't do my favorite song on Natural Elements, Mind Ecology, this was a fine show and nice sound that any fan of McLaughlin and/or Shakti's very talented crew would be glad to hear. This was one of the 1st live Shakti shows I ever heard, got this tape close to 30 years ago just a couple of years after the show, it's still one of my favorite Shakti shows today. Do not sell this recording. Trade freely and losslessly. |
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Performance
| Shakti 1977-11-04 Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA | |
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| Set 1 | La Danse Du Bonheur Peace Of Mind India Kriti Get Down And Sruti E: Lotus Feet |
| Set 2 | |
| Set 3 | |
| Comment | Berklee College Of Music John McLaughlin - Acoustic Guitar Lakshminarayanan Shankar - Violin Zakir Hussain - Tabla Thetakudi Harihara "Vikku" Vinayakram - Ghatam I.S. Murgesh - Percussion Susan - Sruti Box Minta - Sruti Box |