Sitar music was much in the air in my later years of high school, showing up increasingly in pop music, but I really wanted to try to appreciate it as it was played by Ravi Shankar and other Indian musicians in their own music. Difficult to listen to at first, since we are inclined to try to apply all our notions of what music is supposed to be, rather than just relaxing and letting the music reveal itself in its own way.
Some great Ravi Shankar albums to listen to on YouTube:
Ravi Shankar - The Spirit of India
Ravi Shankar has two very musical daughters representing the best of East and West: Anoushka Shankar and Norah Jones. I like this early video of Ravi Shankar performing with a very young Anoushka, sixteen years old I figure:
Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar
Live Raag Khamaj (1997)
The famous warm up for the Concert for Bangladesh:
Recording of Ravi Shakar playing at the Concert for Bangladesh (could swear he was riffing on the Ode to Joy from Beethoven`s Ninth Symphony):
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