Passages is a collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, released in 1990 through Private Music. Consisting of arrangements by each of the composers around themes written by the other, the album's content is a hybrid of Hindustani classical music and Glass' distinct American minimal contemporary classical style. The album reached a peak position of number three on Billboard Top World Music Albums chart.

Reception

AllMusic's Jim Brenholts called the music "brilliant". Benholts wrote that Shankar's "smooth" style and Glass' dissonant orchestrations mixed well, and recommended Passages to fans of other minimalist composers such as John Cage, Steve Reich and Terry Riley.

Track listing "Offering" (Philip Glass)– 9:47 "Sadhanipa" (Ravi Shankar) – 8:37 "Channels and Winds" (Philip Glass) – 8:00 "Ragas in Minor Scale" (Ravi Shankar) – 7:37 "Meetings Along the Edge" (Philip Glass) – 8:11 "Prashanti" (Ravi Shankar) – 13:40

Personnel

Tim Baker – violin S. P. Balasubrahmanyam – vocals Seymour Barab – cello Al Brown – viola Ashit Desai – conductor Blaise Dupuy – engineer Barry Finclair – viola, violin Mayuki Fukuhara – violin Jeannie Gagné – voices Jon Gibson – soprano saxophone Philip Glass – performer, producer Peter Gordon – French horn Regis Iandiorio – violin Rory Johnston – executive producer Karen Karlsrud – violin Abhiman Kaushal – tabla Jack Kripl – alto saxophone, flute Suresh Lalwani – arranger, conductor, mixing, orchestral assistant, producer Regis Landiorio – violin Beverly Lauridsen – cello Batia Lieberman – cello Ronu Mazumdar – flute Michael McGrath – assistant engineer Kurt Munkacsi – producer Keith O'Quinn – trombone Richard Peck – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone Melanie Penny – art direction Martin Perlich – liner notes Lenny Pickett – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone Alan Raph – trombone Michael Riesman – conductor, mixing, piano Ebet Roberts – photography Partha Sarathy – sarod, veena Sergiu Schwartz – violin Ron Sell – French horn Ravi Shankar – arranger, orchestration, performer, producer, vocals Shubho Shankar – sitar Richard Sortomme – viola T. Srinivasan – drum sounds, mridangam A.R. Swaminathan – engineer Masako Yanagita – viola, violin Frederick Zlotkin – cello

Credits adapted from AllMusic.

Charts In the United States, Passages reached a peak position of number three on Billboard Top World Music Albums chart. Chart (1990)Peakposition US Top World Music Albums (Billboard)3

See also

List of compositions by Philip Glass Ravi Shankar discography

References