Philip Glass And Ravi Shankar - Passages Instant

: The finale is an epic 14-minute work depicting a journey from harmony into chaos, ending with a Vedic prayer for peace.

The album features six tracks where the lines between East and West are intentionally blurred. Track Highlights and Structure Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar - Passages

The story of Passages begins not in 1990, but decades earlier. Philip Glass had encountered Ravi Shankar’s music as a young man in the 1960s, while living in Paris and working as a music transcriber for the legendary filmmaker Conrad Rooks. Glass was hired to notate Shankar’s complex rhythmic cycles for the film Chappaqua , a job that proved revelatory. “I couldn’t write it down fast enough,” Glass later recalled. “The rhythmic structures were beyond anything I’d seen in Western music.” : The finale is an epic 14-minute work

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