L. Shankar discography explained

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

DVDs

with T. Viswanathan and T. Ranganathan

with Shakti

with The Epidemics

as Shankar and Gingger

Guest albums

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

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

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

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 (2002)  - Double violin
  • (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's Black Labyrinth (2018)  - Violin

Compilations / Box set appearances