In the normal run of things I reckon I can hyperbolise with the best of them (with the possible exceptions of Messers Shakespeare & Marlowe.) But I'm lost for superlatives that might do justice to the Tiny Desk Concert involving Shakti.
When the link popped up in my YouTube feed I was taken aback since I wasn't aware that the band were actually still on the go as late as 2023. As far as I knew, the recent death of the great Zakir Hussain implied some years of inaction prior to his passing - and it was wonderful in itself to be proved so utterly wrong-headed in that lazy assumption. And since I was vaguely that the Mahavishnu himself, Johnny Mac, had to be in his 80s, I sort of thought, if I thought at all, that his days as a 'live' musician were likely to be at an end. Gloriously wrong wrong wrong!
Immediately I clicked on the link. And went to heaven. I advise all right-minded listeners to do the same.
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