A Handful of Beauty
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A Handful of Beauty is a studio album
released by the world fusion
band Shakti
in 1976.
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
released by the world fusion
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"...
band Shakti
Shakti (band)
Shakti was a group which played a novel acoustic fusion music which combined Indian music with elements of jazz; it was perhaps the earliest practitioner of the musical genre world fusion....
in 1976.
Tracklist
- "La Danse Du Bonheur" (John McLaughlin, Lakshminarayana Shankar) – 4:48
- "Lady L" (Shankar) – 7:23
- "India" (McLaughlin, Shankar) – 12:31
- "Kriti" – 2:58
- "Isis" (McLaughlin, Shankar) – 15:11
- "Two Sisters" (McLaughlin) – 4:41
Personnel
- Steven Berkowitz – assistant
- Zakir Hussain – percussion, tabla
- Richard Laird – photography
- Dennis MacKay – engineer
- John McLaughlinJohn McLaughlin (musician)John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...
– acoustic guitar, guitar, arranger, producer, - Lakshminarayana Shankar – violin, arranger, vocals
- Vikku Vinayakram – percussion, vocals