Remember Shakti II Saturday Night in Bombay

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Verve has this scheduled for release on June 19
This is a recording of the Shanmukhananda Hall, Mumbai (Dec 9, 2000) show and also the Dec 8th show at Rang Bhavan.
(The title is a kind of relation to Friday Night in San Francisco)

Guests:
Shankar Mahadevan, vocal
Debashish Bhattacharya, Hindustani slide guitar
Sivamani, drums & percussion
Bhavani Shankar, dholak & pakhawaj
Roshan Ali, dholak
Aziz, dholak
Taufiq Qureshi, def, dafli & percussion
Shiv Kumar Sharma, santur
A.K Pallanivel, tavil

Track Listing/Details

1. Luki
   written by JMcL
   5:39
   

   JmcL - guitar
   Zakir - tabla
   Shrinivas - mandolin
   Selvaganesh - kanjira, ghatam, mridangam
   Shankar Mahadevan - vocal
   Debashish Bhatacharya - Hindustani slide guitar
   Sivamani - drums & percussion
   Bhavani Shankar - dholak & pakhawaj
   Roshan Ali - dholek
   Aziz - dholek
   Taufiq Qureshi - def, dafli & percussion
   

2. Shringar
   written by Shiv Kumar Sharma
   26:38
   

   JmcL - guitar
   Zakir - tabla
   Selvaganesh - kanjira, ghatam, mridangam
   Shiv Kumar Sharma - santur
   

3. Giriraj Sudha
   written by U. Shrinivas
   10:45
   

   JmcL - guitar
   Zakir - tabla
   Shrinivas - mandolin
   Selvaganesh - kanjira, ghatam, mridangam
   Shankar Mahadevan - vocal
   A.K. Pallanivel - tavil
   

4. Bell'Alla
   written by Zakir Hussain
   18:48
   

   JmcL - guitar
   Zakir - tabla
   Shrinivas - mandolin
   Selvaganesh - kanjira, ghatam, mridangam
   Shankar Mahadevan - vocal
   Debashish Bhatacharya - Hindustani slide guitar
   Sivamani - drums & percussion (yes, i hear a drum kit!)
   

Album produced by JMcL
Liner notes by Jacques Denis (somewhat awkward moments in the translation)

Released by Universal Music France
in the U.S. through Verve (a division of Universal)
U.S. catalog # 440 014 164-2

Package design notes:
still using the "shakti" brush calligraphic "logo"
bright pink CD label