Shakti with John McLaughlin
BBC John Peel Broadcast
London, UK
1977-05-09

John McLaughlin- acoustic guitar
Lakshminarayanan (L) Shankar - Violin
Zakir Hussain- tabla
Thetakudi Harihara (T.H.) "Vikku" Vinayakaram - Ghatam
unknown- sruti boxes

Lineage- cd-r trade of a long ago FM recording on unknown equipment> EAC disc extraction> TLH Wav to flac formatting> TLH torrent creation> DIME


1-Two Sisters
2-Kriti
3-La Danse du Bonheur

I finished out 2016 by seeding a couple of Shakti shows, one of which turned out to be from the wrong date and venue and was identical in the end to the show identified as coming from the Shaboo Inn in Willimantic, CT that's still running on the tracker. I told the mods and my incorrectly identified seed has been removed.This still leaves very few Shakti shows active on the tracker.
This prompts me to start my 2017 uploads with another Shakti show that's probably been up here before, but isn't now. It's a BBC John Peel show that's pretty short, but kind of nice in that it features 2 tracks that aren't particularly common to a lot of the longer Shakti sets. Not sure about the original equipment used to record this from the Beeb, but this is not a particularly pristine FM recording, that is nonetheless a nice listen in the end.
This is sometimes traded with the original Shakti CBS demos added on as filler. There's also a recording that gets my vote for being the best sounding Shakti show (apart from the McLaughlin Montreux box set) from a live concert from 3 days after this that was broadcast on the Beeb later that month.I'm sure that's been up before too, but I'll seed that separately.
Thanks to whoever recorded this show and to the person who traded it to me.
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