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Call-Response Crescendo

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Greetings! One thing common among the greatest music legends is that, they thoroughly excel in the art of call -response. In fact, they revel in call-response as the music approaches crescendo! If you have any doubt, then you just need to play this great composition by Shakti,  an extra-ordinary Jazz-Indian Classical Music fusion band - made up of the amazing  quartet of John McLaughlin (guitar), L. Shankar (violin), Vikku Vinayakram (ghatam) and Zakir Hussain (tabla).   Although this video is dated (and you may want to turn up the volume to enjoy it better), you can also see (and hear) what a joy it was for these four to call-response among each other as they created music that makes our emotions dance!  And so, they aptly (and quite elaborately) named this composition as  " What Need Have I For This?-What Need Have I For That?-I Am Dancing At The Feet Of My Lord-All is  Bliss -All is Bliss-All is Bliss"   (Go ahead, play the video, watch enough ...