Music On Vinyl - MOVCL022 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl 

Passages' is a collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, released in 1990. The album is a hybrid of Hindustani Classical music and Glass' distinct American minimal contemporary Classical style. A collaboration between an avant-garde modern Classical composer and a traditional Indian/Hindi composer/performer seems pretty unlikely. However, 'Passages' works splendidly.

Shankar's smooth style fits nicely with Glass' dissonant orchestrations.

The album reached a peak position of number three on Billboard's Top World Music Albums chart. Recommended to fans of other minimalist composers such as John Cage, Steve Reich and Terry Riley

Cello – Batia Lieberman, Beverly Laudrisen, Fred Zlotkin, Seymour Barab
Conductor – Ashit Desai , Michael Riesman , Suresh Lalwani
Double Bass – Joe Carver
Flute – Jack Kripl, Ronu Mazumdar, Theresa Norris
French Horn – Peter Gordon , Ron Sell
Mridangam – T. Srinivasan
Piano – Michael Riesman
Sitar – Shubho Shankar
Soprano Saxophone – Jack Kripl, Jon Gibson
Tabla – Abhiman Kaushal
Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – Lenny Pickett, Richard Peck
Trombone – Alan Raph, Keith O'Quinn
Veena – Partha Sarathy*
Viola – Al Brown, Barry Finclair, Masako Yanagita, Richard Sortomme
Violin – Barry Finclair, Karen Karlsrud, Masako Yanagita, Mayuki Fukuhara, Regis Iandiorio, Sergiu Schwartz, Tim Baker
Vocals – Ravi Shankar, S.P. Balasubramanyam
Voice – Jeanie Gagne