Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass - Passages

Passages is collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, released in 1990 through Atlantic Records. The album's content is a hybrid of Hindustani classical music and Glass' distinct American minimal contemporary classical style. The album reached a peak position of number three on Billboard's Top World Music Albums chart.

00:00 "Offering" (Shankar)– 9:47

09:47 "Sadhanipa" (Glass) – 8:37

18:24 "Channels and Winds" (Glass) – 8:00

26:24 "Ragas in Minor Scale" (Glass) – 7:37

34:01 "Meetings Along the Edge" (Shankar) – 8:11

42:12 "Prashanti" (Shankar) – 13:40

"Offering", the album's opening track, begins with a slow introduction before the saxophone establishes the Shankar raga melody. Two additional saxophones join, followed by an extended middle section at a faster tempo, all before returning to the starting theme. The title of the second track, "Sadhanipa", is derived from the solfège notes (swara) "Sa Dha Ni Pa" from the Indian octave (saptak) based on the first four tones of Glass' melody, "Do La Ti So" (D-B-C-A).

Allmusic's Jim Brenholts awarded the album four of five stars, calling the music "brilliant". Benholts wrote that Shankar's "smooth" style and Glass' dissonant orchestrations mixed well, and recommended Passages to fans of other minimalist composers such as John Cage, Steve Reich and Terry Riley.

Tim Baker – violin

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam – vocals

Seymour Barab – cello

Al Brown – viola

Ashit Desai – conductor

Blaise Dupuy – engineer

Barry Finclair – viola, violin

Mayuki Fukuhara – violin

Jean Gagne – voices

Jon Gibson – soprano saxophone

Philip Glass – performer, producer

Peter Gordon – French horn

Regis Iandiorio – violin

Rory Johnston – executive producer

Karen Karlsrud – violin

Abhiman Kaushal – tabla

Jack Kripl – alto saxophone, flute

Suresh Lalwani – arranger, conductor, mixing, orchestral assistant, producer

Regis Landiorio – violin

Beverly Lauridsen – cello

Batia Lieberman – cello

Ronu Mazumdar – flute

Michael McGrath – assistant engineer

Kurt Munkasci – producer

Keith O'Quinn – trombone

Richard Peck – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone

Melanie Penny – art direction

Martin Perlich – liner notes

Lenny Pickett – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone

Alan Raph – trombone

Michael Riesman – conductor, mixing, piano

Ebet Roberts – photography

Partha Sarathy – sarod, veena

Sergiu Schwartz – violin

Ron Sell – French horn

Ravi Shankar – arranger, orchestration, performer, producer, Vocals

Shubho Shankar – sitar

Richard Sortomme – viola

T. Srinivasan – drum sounds, mridangam

A.R. Swaminathan – engineer

Masako Yanagita – viola, violin

Frederick Zlotkin – cello