Shakti was a group which played a novel acoustic fusion music which combined Indian music with elements of jazz. Its leading member was the English guitar player John McLaughlin, but it also featured the Indian violin player L. Shankar. It also included Zakir Hussain, and Ramnad Raghavan and T. H. Vikku Vinayakram.
In addition to fusing Western and Indian music, Shakti also represented a fusion of the Hindustani and Carnatic music traditions, since Hussain is from the North while the other India...
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