| Vision | ||||
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| Released | 1984 | |||
| Recorded | April 1983 | |||
| Studio | Talent Studio Oslo, Norway | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | ECM 1260 | |||
| Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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Vision is an album by Indian violinist L. Shankar recorded in April 1983 and released by ECM in 1984. The trio features Shankar playing a 10-string stereophonic double violin accompanied by saxophonist Jan Garbarek and trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg. [1] [2]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
In a review for AllMusic, Richard S. Ginell called the album "an ethereal tour-de-force," and wrote: "Exotic pan-cultural ingredients and all, Vision is reassuringly easy to listen to, undoubtedly aided by ECM's sweetly reverberant sound." [1]
The Washington Post 's J.D. Considine noted that Shankar's solo recordings "avoid entirely the excesses of fusion jazz," and instead "pursue a plangent serenity that, when it reaches the heights achieved throughout Vision..., suggests a transcendence unheard in jazz since John Coltrane's A Love Supreme." [3]
A writer for The New York Times commented: "This is pleasant music for late-night dreaming, but unlike the quasi-meditative musical wallpaper one hears on so many ECM and Windham Hill albums, it is also music with substance and heart." [4]
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