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Title: More instrumentation necessary.
Review: I bought the original Shakti around the year it came out, in '75. Since then it's a part of my soul, especially L. Shankar's violin solos. In the first Remember Shakti 24 years later, the flute's intervention captures enough attention to be a great recording, but The Believer is a dissapointment. McLauglin leaves the melodic department a little stripped of variety and it never seems to elevate to spiritual heights like the others. Zakir is impecable as always, but the melodic weight solely on strings bores a bit. I love McLaughlin since I was a teen, but this album lacks soul. What ever happened to L. Shankar?
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