L. Shankar discography

L. Shankar has served as an instrumentalist, composer, record producer, arranger and programmer on several recordings. He has released a number of his own recordings, in addition to appearing on other artists' albums. All credits are for violin, except where noted. This is not an exhaustive list of Shankar's works, but a select few titles.

Discography[]

Solo albums[]

Touch Me There (1979—Zappa Records)
Who's to Know (1980—ECM)
Vision (1983—ECM)
Song For Everyone (1985—ECM)
Nobody Told Me (1989—ECM)
Pancha Nadai Pallavi (1989—ECM)
M.R.C.S. (1989—ECM)
Soul Searcher (1990—Axiom/Island/PolyGram)
Raga Aberi (1995—Music of the World)
Enlightenment (Ganesh music)
Eternal Light (2000—Moment! Records)
Open the Door (2007—Big Deal/Rykodisc)

DVDs[]

Shankar & Gingger's One In A Million (2001 · Silverline)

with T. Viswanathan and T. Ranganathan[]

Pallavi: South Indian Flute Music (1973-Nonesuch)

with Shakti[]

Shakti (1975—CBS)
A Handful of Beauty (1976—CBS)
Natural Elements (1977—CBS)

with The Epidemics[]

The Epidemics (1986)
Do What You Do (1987)
Eye Catcher (1989)

as Shankar and Ginnger[]

Shankar & Ginnger (2001)
Celestial Body (2004 · Mondo Melodia)

Guest albums[]

Archie Shepp's Attica Blues (1972) – Violin
Clifford Thornton's Communication Network (1972) – Violin
Amon Düül II's Wolf City (1972) – Tablas
Egberto Gismonti's Circense (1979) – Violin
Sérgio Dias's Sérgio Dias (1980) – Violin, songwriting credit
Phil Collins' Face Value (1981) (as Shankar)

Song: "In The Air Tonight" (1981) – Violin, vocal effects

Song: "I Missed Again" (1981) – Violin

Song: "Droned" (1981) – Violins, Tamboura, "Voice Drums"

Talking Heads's Speaking in Tongues (1983) – Violin
Echo & the Bunnymen's Porcupine (1983) – Strings
Lou Reed's New Sensations (1984) – Violin
Narada Michael Walden's Nature of Things (1985) – Violin
Artists United Against Apartheid's Sun City (1985) – Double violin
Yoko Ono's Starpeace (1985) – Violin
Public Image Ltd.’s Album/Compact disc/Cassette (1986) – Electric violin
Ginger Baker's Horses & Trees (1986) – Violin
Peter Gabriel's So (1986) – Violin
Daryll Dobson's The Mind Electric (1986) – 10-string double violin
The Pretenders' Get Close (1986) – Violin
Trilok Gurtu's Usfret (1987) – Violin
Charly García's Cómo conseguir chicas (1988) – Violin
Gary Wright's Who I Am (1988) – Violin
Animal Logic's Animal Logic (1989) – Violin
Peter Gabriel's Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ (1989) – Double violin, vocals, composer of "Open" (uncredited composer of additional music)
Material's Seven Souls (1989) – Violin
Swans' The Burning World (1989) – Violin
Ryuichi Sakamoto's Beauty (1990) – Violin
Maurice Jarre's Jacob's Ladder OST (1990) – Violin, vocals, performer, double violin
Its Raining Men - Atlantic Records
Jai Uttal's Footprints (1990) – Vocals
Peter Gabriel's Us (1992) – Violin
Yoko Ono's Walking on Thin Ice (1992) – Violin
The Wailing Souls' All Over the World (1992) – Violin, sarod
Frank Zappa's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 (1992)

Song: "Thirteen" – Electric violin

Song: "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" – Electric violin

Shadowfax's Esperanto (1992) – violin
White Sands OST (1992) – Percussion, violin, vocals
Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures (1992) – Violin, vocals
Peter Gabriel's Blood of Eden (US) (1993) – Violin
Passion - Sources (1989) and (1993) – Violin, producer

Mark O'Connor's Heroes (1993) – double violin, composer
Fernando Saunder's Spin (1993) – Double violin
SXL's Into the Outlands (1994) – Electric violin
Peter Gabriel's Blood of Eden (UK) (1994) – Violin
Peter Gabriel's Secret World Live (1994) – Violin, vocals
Bill Laswell's Deconstruction: Celluloid Recordings (1994) – Violin
Material's Hallucination Engine (1993) – Violin (Electric)
Midge Ure's Breathe (1996) – Vocals, double violin
Percy Ensemble Jones' Propeller Music (1996) – Violin
Tony Levin's World Diary (1996) – Vocals, double violin
Marianne Faithfull's Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology (1998) – Double violin
Saro Cosentino's One's & Zero's (1998) – Vocals, double violin
Anthony Hindson and Friends' It's a Curious Life (1999) with Jack Bruce, Tony Williams, Zakir Hussain, Gary Husband and Scott Thunes – Violin
Frank Zappa's Everything Is Healing Nicely (1999) – Violin
Trilok Gurtu's African Fantasy (1999) – songwriting credit
Warren Cuccurullo's The Blue (2000) – Violin
Peter Gabriel's OVO (2000) – Violin, vocals
Robin DiMaggio's Blue Planet (2001) – Violin, vocals, double violin
Peter Murphy's Dust (2002) – Tabla, dholak
Peter Gabriel's Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) – Double violin
Queen of the Damned: Music from the Motion Picture (2002) – Vocals, double violin
Peter Gabriel's Up (2002) – Double violin
Mercan Dede's Seyahatname (2003) – Dholak
Phil May and the Fallen Angels' Fallen Angels (2003) – Violin
Frank Zappa's Halloween (2003) – Violin
The Passion of the Christ OST (2004) – Composer, vocals, double violin
John McLaughlin's Guitar & Bass (2004) – Violin
John McLaughlin's John McLaughlin's Montreux concerts (2004) – Violin, arranger
Taufiq's Taalisma (2004) – Percussion, drums
James Newton Howard's Hidalgo OST (2004) – Double violin
Peter Gabriel's Play the Videos (2004) – Violin, double violin
The Pretenders' Pirate Radio (2006) – Violin
Sarah Green's Emergency (2006) – Vocals
Chris Murphy's Luminous (2007) – Vocals
Toto's Falling in Between (2006) (as Shenkar) – Vocals, violin
Jonathan Davis and the SFA's Alone I Play (2007) – Violin
The Human Abstract's Midheaven (2008) – Vocals
Jonathan Davis and the SFA's Debut studio album (TBA) – Violin

Compilations / Box set appearances[]

Best of Music & Rhythm (1983) – Violin, composer, vocals, producer
ECM Spectrum, Vol. 1 (1987) – Violin, performer
CMPler (1990) – Violin
Peter Gabriel's Shaking the Tree (1990) – Double violin
Pioneers of the New Age (1991) – Violin
Illuminations: An Axiom Compilation (1991) – Arranger, vocals, kanjira, producer, double violin
Yoko Ono's Onobox (1992) – Violin
Lou Reed's Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology (1992) – Electric violin
Plus from Us (1993) – Arranger, vocals, kanjira, producer, double violin
Manifestation Axiom Collection 2 (1993) – Arranger
The Best of Shakti (1994)
Narada Michael Walden's Ecstasy's Dance: The Best of Narada (1996) – Violin
John McLaughlin's This is Jazz Vol. 17 (1996) – Violin
Phil Collins's Hits (1998) – Violin

Jewels of the Subcontinent (2000) – Performer, double violin
Asian Travels, Vol. 1: A Six Degrees Collection (2000) – Performer
Echo & the Bunnymen's Crystal Days: 1979–1999 (2001) – Strings
The Bombay Jazz Palace (2001) – Violin
Meta Collection (2002) – Violin
Asana: Soul Practice (2002) – Violin, arranger
Classical Indian Collection (2003) – Violin
Bhakti Music: Medicine Buddha (2003) – Photography
Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime (2003) – Violin
Left of the Dial: Dispatches of the '80s Underground (2004) – Strings
Phil Collins's The Platinum Collection (2004) – Violin, tamboura
Trilok Gurtu Collection (2005) – Violin
Monterey Pop Festival (2007) – Arranger
John McLaughlin's Essential John McLaughlin (2007) – Violin