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Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival is an album that captured sitarist Ravi Shankar together with tabla artist Alla Rakha in an incendiary performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival first exposing Indian classical music to the hippie youth audience there which subsequently exploded into mainstream audiences’ consciousness.

Much of Indian classical music had been brought to the West by violinist Yehudi Menuhin when he recorded and performed with sarodist Ali Akbar Khan and sitarist Shankar in the 1950s and ’60s until this legendary performance.

Bainbridge Records RSD 21 1981. NM*****