[Frameworks] pre-Beatles sitar in experimental film

[Mark Toscano]

Yeah, A Chairy Tale is Ravi Shankar, totally predates that.

Also, James Whitney's LAPIS, which was released more or less in 1966 (but worked on for years up to that point), features a Ravi Shankar soundtrack (taken from an existing recording).

Felix Venable's Les angeS Dorment (1965) features a brief snippet of (I believe) also Ravi Shankar, in the midst of an otherwise jazz soundtrack containing Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, and John Coltrane.

Mark Toscano



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Easy to come up if you IMDB for Ravi Shankar and his "foreign" work including http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIiWOuDuxc, There's also Ivory's THE SWORD AND THE FLUTE and also from 1966, Conrad Rooks Chappaqua also employed Ravi Shankar. I'm sure there's others who used sitar, but his work immediately comes to mind.

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On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Ingo Petzke <ingo at petzke.biz> wrote:

I am looking for films
that use Asian music – particularly Indian sitar - on their original soundtrack.
The earliest one I have come across so far seems to be METANOMEN by Scott
Bartlett (1966) but I am pretty sure there must be earlier ones.  All help
much appreciated!!! 
>Ingo
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