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Tana Mana is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, originally credited to "the Ravi Shankar Project" and released in 1987. The album is an experimental work by Shankar, mixing traditional instrumentation with 1980s electronic music and sampling technology. Shankar recorded much of Tana Mana in 1983 with sound effects innovator Frank Serafine, but it remained unreleased until Peter Baumann, head of new age record label Private Music, became attached to the project. The album title translates to mean "body and mind".

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  • Tana Mana est un album enregistré par Ravi Shankar en 1987 ; ce projet consiste en une fusion : le râga indien, l'utilisation de la technologie moderne et des synthétiseurs, le sampling, et la musique populaire occidentale. George Harrison y a participé comme chanteur. (fr)
  • Tana Mana is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, originally credited to "the Ravi Shankar Project" and released in 1987. The album is an experimental work by Shankar, mixing traditional instrumentation with 1980s electronic music and sampling technology. Shankar recorded much of Tana Mana in 1983 with sound effects innovator Frank Serafine, but it remained unreleased until Peter Baumann, head of new age record label Private Music, became attached to the project. The album title translates to mean "body and mind". In addition to his familiar instrument, the sitar, Shankar plays synthesizer extensively on the recording. The album also includes contributions from Lakshmi Shankar, Aashish Khan and Kumar Bose, and Western musicians such as George Harrison, Al Kooper and Ray Cooper. (en)
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  • Tana Mana 1987 LP cover.jpg (en)
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  • Tana Mana (en)
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  • Using the scale of the Carnatic raga "Hemavati," I improvised [on sitar] ... I said some words in Bengali such as "adsola" , "chitey gud" , "Chittagong" , and anything else that spontaneously came to mind. A fun recording. (en)
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  • 1983 (xsd:integer)
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  • June 1987 (en)
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  • – Shankar, discussing the creation of "West Eats Meat" (en)
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  • Serafine FX, Los Angeles; FPSHOT, Oxfordshire; The Enterprise, Los Angeles (en)
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  • Tana Mana est un album enregistré par Ravi Shankar en 1987 ; ce projet consiste en une fusion : le râga indien, l'utilisation de la technologie moderne et des synthétiseurs, le sampling, et la musique populaire occidentale. George Harrison y a participé comme chanteur. (fr)
  • Tana Mana is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, originally credited to "the Ravi Shankar Project" and released in 1987. The album is an experimental work by Shankar, mixing traditional instrumentation with 1980s electronic music and sampling technology. Shankar recorded much of Tana Mana in 1983 with sound effects innovator Frank Serafine, but it remained unreleased until Peter Baumann, head of new age record label Private Music, became attached to the project. The album title translates to mean "body and mind". (en)
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  • Tana Mana (fr)
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