''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

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Reception

In a review for

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, 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." ''

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''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.''" A writer for ''

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'' 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."

Track listing

#"All for You" – 6:36 #"Vision" – 13:44 #"Astral Projection" – 5:47 #"Psychic Elephant" – 11:54 #"The Message" – 7:22

Personnel

* Shankar – 10-string double violin, percussion *

– soprano, tenor and bass saxophones, percussion *

– trumpet, flugelhorn

References

{{Authority control Lakshminarayana Shankar albums 1984 albums ECM Records albums