Over the past decade guitarist John McLaughlin, other than working on his Industrial Zen (Verve, 2006) project, has devoted much of his time to a new version of his ground-breaking mid-'70s Indo-Jazz ...

Talk about a trial by heavy metal fire! English guitar giant John McLaughlin and Indian tabla drum virtuoso Zakir Hussain had just released the 1975 debut album by Shakti — their all-acoustic, Indian ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Released today, This Moment, a 50th Anniversary celebration album from the ...

Death, disability and pestilence have kept the band Shakti from performing together for almost 10 years. But a new album, a miracle cure for John McLaughlin’s arthritic right hand, the end of the ...

John McLaughlin has made brilliant and groundbreaking music over many decades, with The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis and many more – but arguably it’s his fusion group Shakti that has meant the ...

This is my Album of the Year, since it is one of the finest albums of the last quarter-century. Shakti was formed in 1973, as McLaughlin sought deeper musical fulfillment following the success of his ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (IANS) – The band ‘Shakti’, formed by the British guitarist John McLaughlin and master Indian percussionist, Zakir Hussain, has released a new studio album after more than 45 years.

Shakti, an unprecedented transcontinental collaboration between visionary tabla player Zakir Hussain and British guitarist and jazz fusion pioneer John McLaughlin, have announced a forthcoming tour in ...

To hear them tell it, the cofounders of Shakti — guitar great John McLaughlin, 81, and tabla master Zakir Hussain, 72 — are ecstatic whenever the group reunites for a concert. So expect the group’s ...

Following word of the Summer 2023 release of This Moment - their first new studio album in 46 years - revolutionary world music ensemble Shakti will continue to discover and explore the musical common ...