Rise is an album by Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar is a British Indian sitar player and composer who lives between the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Shankar...

 released on September 27, 2005. The album was chosen as one of Amazon.com

Amazon.com

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's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005 (#82). On previous recordings, Anoushka Shankar had followed in the footsteps of her father, Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...

, by performing relatively traditional, raga

Raga

A raga is one of the melodic modes used in Indian classical music.It is a series of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is made...

-based music. Rise, by contrast, incorporated jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

, and pan-ethnic world music

World music

World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...

 textures in an unpredictable melange. At the center of it all are Shankar's sitar

Sitar

The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...

 expertise and traditional Indian roots.

Track listing

All songs by Anoushka Shankar except where noted.

1. "Prayer in Passing" – 6:20
2. "Red Sun" – 4:50
3. "Mahadeva" – 5:42
4. "Naked" – 4:16
5. "Solea" (Shankar/Pedro Ricardo) – 7:26
6. "Beloved" – 7:05
7. "Sinister Grains" – 6:10
8. "Voice of the Moon" – 8:54
9. "Ancient Love" – 11:06

Personnel

1. Anoushka Shankar
   Anoushka Shankar
   Anoushka Shankar is a British Indian sitar player and composer who lives between the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Shankar...
   
   : Sitar
   Sitar
   The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
   
   , keyboards, vocals
2. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
   Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
   Vishwa Mohan Bhatt also known as V. M. Bhatt is an Indian slide guitar player. Bhatt is the creator of the Mohan Veena...
   
   : Veena
   Veena
   Veena may refer to one of several Indian plucked instruments:With frets*Rudra veena, plucked string instrument used in Hindustani music*Saraswati veena, plucked string instrument used in Carnatic musicFretless...
   
   
3. Barry Phillips
   Barry Phillips
   Barry Phillips is a musician, arranger and producer of many recordings of Celtic, world and American folk music on the Gourd Music label.Barry received a Masters of Music degree in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1990...
   
   : Cello
4. Pedro Eustache
   Pedro Eustache
   Pedro Eustache , is a creative solo flautist - "World Music" woodwinds-reeds-wind synthesizers and composer with extensive academic studies and more than 35 years of professional experience...
   
   : Bansuri
   Bansuri
   The bansuri is a transverse alto flute of Bangladesh, India and Nepal made from a single hollow shaft of bamboo with six or seven finger holes. An ancient musical instrument associated with cowherds and the pastoral tradition, it is intimately linked to the love story of Krishna and Radha, and is...
   
   , duduk
   Duduk
   The duduk , traditionally known since antiquity as a Ծիրանափող is a traditional woodwind instrument indigenous to Armenia. Variations of it are popular in the Middle East and Central Asia...
   
   
5. Ajay Prasanna: Bansuri
6. Pedro Ricardo Mino: Piano
7. Pulak Sarcar: Keyboards
8. Kevin Cooper: Bass guitar
9. Jesse Charnow: Drums and percussion
10. Tanmoy Bose: Djembe
    Djembe
    A djembe also known as jembe, jenbe, djbobimbe, jymbe, yembe, or jimbay, or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin-covered drum meant played with bare hands....
    
    , tabla
    Tabla
    The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
    
    
11. Sanjeev Chimmalgi
    Sanjeev Chimmalgi
    Sanjeev Chimmalgi is a Indian Hindustani vocalist. He is a disciple of the master composer, musician and revered guru, Pandit C. R. Vyas. His music reflects the voice culture of Kirana gharana as well as the bandish oriented singing of the Gwalior gharana/ Agra gharana.-Early life:Sanjeev...
    
    : Backing vocals
12. Ritesh Mishra: Backing vocals
13. Rajneesh Mishra: Backing vocals