Today "Shenkar" will perhaps be most recognizable to the world as "the guy who does the Heroes title theme." But before he (presumably) burned out and began degrading himself making shitty pop and new age music, L. Shankar was one of most brilliant musicians of the century. Starting from a rigorous grounding in classical Carnatic music, he created music that challenged the rigid structure of the conservative Carnatic community, liberating musical possibilities with wild creativity.

This is L. Shankar at the height of his genius, track 3 from the 1995 CD Raga Abheri. His transitions are brilliant and yet discomfortingly slightly askew, producing a driving tension that makes the music even more potent and intense.

Pictures are from the 1981 album, Who's To Know (probably the only album of L. Shankar that is more brilliant than this one), since I don't have the Raga Abheri album artwork. In Raga Abheri, Shankar is using the same double violin pictured here.

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The first track is the legendary Ragamalika from Who's To Know, minus the alapana before and drum solos after.

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