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Chants of India is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar released in 1997 on Angel Records. Produced by his friend and sometime collaborator George Harrison, the album consists of Vedic and other Hindu sacred prayers set to music, marking a departure from Shankar's more familiar work in the field of Hindustani classical music. The lyrical themes of the recorded chants are peace and harmony among nature and all creatures. . Anoushka Shankar, John Barham, Bikram Ghosh, Tarun Bhatacharaya and Ronu Majumdar are among the many world class musicians who contributed to the recording.All songs are traditional, adapted by Ravi Shankar, except where noted.
"Vandanaa Trayee" – 4:32
"Omkaaraaya Namaha" – 1:53
"Vedic Chanting One" – 3:12
"Asato Maa" – 7:12
"Sahanaa Vavavtu" – 4:26
"Poornamadah" – 1:28
"Gaayatri" – 3:26
"Mahaa Mrityunjaya" – 4:43
"Veenaa-Murali" – 3:36
"Geetaa" – 2:13
"Mangalam" (Ravi Shankar, Dr Nandakumara) – 4:03
"Hari Om" (Shankar) – 2:57
"Svara Mantra" (Shankar) – 4:34
"Vedic Chanting Two" – 2:13
"Prabhujee" (Shankar) – 8:06
"Sarve Shaam" – 5:09
Ravi Shankar – sitar, direction, arrangements
George Harrison – vocals, acoustic guitar, autoharp, bass, vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel
Anoushka Shankar – conductor and assistant
Ronu Mazumdar – flute
Madras sessions
Kalyan – violin and assistant
Subramaniam, Devi – veenas
Murali – harmonium
Seenu – mridangam
Balasai, Kamalaskar – flutes
Shekar, Biswas, John – cellos
Mirali, Rex, Balu, Sasi, Girijan – violins
Narayanan, Rebbecca Goodsell, Sririam, Venkataraman, Gowri Shankar – tanpuras
Babu Parameshwaran, Natesan, Ramchandran Suresh, Sashidran, Babu, Mani, Mani Kiran, Shanta Dhananjayan, Suhasini, Latha, Rashmi – vocals ("Indian chorus")
Sarada, Martha, Vimala, Pearl, Adela, Dr Grub, Billy, Tony, Arul, Ranjith – vocals ("Western chorus")
London sessions
Chandrashekhar – violin and assistant
M. Balachandar – mridangam, morsing
Bikram Ghosh – tabla
Tarun Bhatacharaya – santoor
Jane Lister – harp
Antonia Paget – violin
Michael Paget, Stella Page – violas
Isabel Dunn – cello
Terry Emery – tuned percussion
Deepa Singh, Hari Sivanesan, Sivashakti Sivanesan, Gaurav Mazumdar, Shyamali Basu, Chandrashekhar, Sukanya Shankar – vocals