Ravi Shankar-Three Ragas (1956)


Artist: Ravi Shankar

Title: Three Ragas

Label: World Pacific Records

Format: LP

Cat #: WPS 21438

Year of Release: 1956

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1967

Sold Price: $7.99

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 9/7/20

Discogs Last Sold: 8/13/20

Low: $2.36

Median: $8.00

High: $24.00

Current low price: $3.00 F/VG+, $6.00 VG+/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 46

Have/Want: 1020/130

Where Sold: Houston, TX

Time it took to sell: 3 years

Where and When Bought: can't fully remember, seem to think it's a dollar bin find somewhere in NYC in a box I had to kneel and flip through at a store.

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go?: No

Can't really grade this below A given it's the master of Indian Classical in the 50's.  I gave it an overnight spin before it went out the door.  I dozed off during side two, but I didn't feel like I lost the point.  It was a long and peaceful drone.   Much preferable to him on a rock stage like Concert For Bangladesh.  There was some late 60's or 70's Shankar album that was a Tabla frenzy that I heard sometime in the 80's and I think I was hoping this was it when I bought it, but it wasn't.  That said, it's a great place to start, and I suspect there are not the trappings of modern production you might hear later that might ruin something this pure, but I honestly haven't sat down and listened to multiple releases and eras of Ravi Shankar to make this level of analysis.   Chants of India with George Harrison has been a curio and now it's reissued, so I guess that and trying to find the previously heard Tabla frenzy are my bucket list Shankar missions.

Three Ragas was a nice clean dollar bin find, I think the buyer got a deal on this one both aesthetically and the condition of the record, though with the rise of Discogs, the days of getting $24.00 for this are long gone unless maybe it is sealed.

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