 With Phil McDonald as recording engineer , the basic tracks for most of the album were completed by December 1972 , before Hopkins departed for Jamaica to work on the Rolling Stones ' new album , Goats Head Soup ( 1973 ) . Harrison , McDonald and Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain then produced the recording of a recent New York performance by Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan , released on Apple Records in January 1973 as the double live album In Concert 1972 . 
