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At the Woodstock Festival
Richard Bock

At the Woodstock Festival is a

Woodstock Festival in upstate New York. Shankar's set took place during a downpour and he later expressed his dissatisfaction with the event due to the prevalence of drugs among the crowd.[2]

Having performed at the

hippie movement.[3][4] He said he felt the music was only "incidental" to the party atmosphere and likened the vast rain-soaked crowd to "the water buffaloes you see in India, submerged in the mud".[5]

The album includes an eight-minute tabla solo played by Alla Rakha. At the Woodstock Festival was issued on CD in 1991 by BGO Records.[6]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Raga Puriya–Dhanashri/Gat in Sawarital" (11 Beats) (adapted by Ravi Shankar) – 11:04
  2. "Tabla Solo in Jhaptal" (10 Beats 2-3-2-3) (adapted by Alla Rakha) – 8:48

Side two

  1. "Raga Manj Khamaj" (Alap, Jor, Dhun in
    Kaharwa
    Tal (8 Beats), Medium and Fast Gat in Teental (16 Beats)) (adapted by Shankar) – 21:31

"Raga Puriya–Dhanashri/Gat in Sawarital" was in fact a studio recording. The live version performed at Woodstock was released for the first time in 2009, on the six-CD box set

Woodstock 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm.[7]

Personnel

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4402-4776-7
    .
  2. ^ "Ravi Shankar". woodstock.com. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  3. ISBN 1-56649-104-5
    .
  4. ISBN 0-8264-2819-3
    .
  5. ISBN 1-56649-104-5
    .
  6. ^ "Ravi Shankar At the Woodstock Festival". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Woodstock – 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm". Rhino.com. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
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