Discography

Solo albums

Violin Ecstasy (1978 - EMI)
Touch Me There (1979—Zappa Records)
Who's to Know (1980—ECM)
Vision (1984—ECM)
Song For Everyone (1985—ECM)
Nobody Told Me (1989—ECM)
Pancha Nadai Pallavi (1989—ECM)
M.R.C.S. (1989—ECM)
Soul Searcher (1990—Axiom/Island/PolyGram)
Raga Aberi (1995—Music of the World)
Enlightenment (Ganesh music)
Eternal Light (2000—Moment! Records)
Open the Door (2007—Big Deal/Rykodisc)
In a Box (2012)
The Revelation (2013)
Champion (2014)
Transcend (2015)
Face to Face (2019)
Chepleeri Dream (2020)
Christmas from India (2021)

DVDs

Peter Gabriel's Secret World Live (1993)
Shankar & Gingger's One In A Million (2001 · Silverline)

with T. Viswanathan and T. Ranganathan

Pallavi: South Indian Flute Music (1973-Nonesuch)

with Shakti

Shakti (1975—CBS)
A Handful of Beauty (1976—CBS)
Natural Elements (1977—CBS)

with The Epidemics

The Epidemics (1986)
Do What You Do (1987)
Eye Catcher (1989)

as Shankar and Gingger

Shankar & Gingger (2001)
Celestial Body (2004 · Mondo Melodia)

Guest albums

Archie Shepp's Attica Blues (1972) – Violin
Clifford Thornton's Communication Network (1972) – Violin
Amon Düül II's Wolf City (1972) – Tablas
Egberto Gismonti's Circense (1979) – Violin
Sérgio Dias's Sérgio Dias (1980) – Violin, songwriting credit
Phil Collins' Face Value (1981) (as Shankar)

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

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

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

Talking Heads's Speaking in Tongues (1983) – Violin
Echo & the Bunnymen's Porcupine (1983) – Strings
Lou Reed's New Sensations (1984) – Violin
Narada Michael Walden's Nature of Things (1985) – Violin
Artists United Against Apartheid's Sun City (1985) – Double violin
Yoko Ono's Starpeace (1985) – Violin
Public Image Ltd.’s Album/Compact disc/Cassette (1986) – Electric violin
Ginger Baker's Horses & Trees (1986) – Violin
Peter Gabriel's So (1986) – Violin
Daryll Dobson's The Mind Electric (1986) – 10-string double violin
The Pretenders' Get Close (1986) – Violin
Trilok Gurtu's Usfret (1987) – Violin
Charly García's Cómo conseguir chicas (1988) – Violin
Gary Wright's Who I Am (1988) – Violin
Animal Logic's Animal Logic (1989) – Violin
Peter Gabriel's Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ (1989) – Double violin, vocals, composer of "Open" (uncredited composer of additional music)
Material's Seven Souls (1989) – Violin
Swans' The Burning World (1989) – Violin
Ryuichi Sakamoto's Beauty (1990) – Violin
Maurice Jarre's Jacob's Ladder OST (1990) – Violin, vocals, performer, double violin
Its Raining Men - Atlantic Records
Jai Uttal's Footprints (1990) – Vocals
Peter Gabriel's Us (1992) – Violin
Yoko Ono's Walking on Thin Ice (1992) – Violin
The Wailing Souls' All Over the World (1992) – Violin, sarod
Frank Zappa's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 (1992)

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 Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) – Double violin
Queen of the Damned: Music from the Motion Picture (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

Best of Music & Rhythm (1983) – Violin, composer, vocals, producer
ECM Spectrum, Vol. 1 (1987) – Violin, performer
CMPler (1990) – Violin
Peter Gabriel's Shaking the Tree (1990) – Double violin
Pioneers of the New Age (1991) – Violin
Illuminations: An Axiom Compilation (1991) – Arranger, vocals, kanjira, producer, double violin
Yoko Ono's Onobox (1992) – Violin
Lou Reed's Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology (1992) – Electric violin
Plus from Us (1993) – Arranger, vocals, kanjira, producer, double violin
Manifestation Axiom Collection 2 (1993) – Arranger
The Best of Shakti (1994)
Narada Michael Walden's Ecstasy's Dance: The Best of Narada (1996) – Violin
John McLaughlin's This is Jazz Vol. 17 (1996) – Violin
Phil Collins's Hits (1998) – Violin

Jewels of the Subcontinent (2000) – Performer, double violin
Asian Travels, Vol. 1: A Six Degrees Collection (2000) – Performer
Echo & the Bunnymen's Crystal Days: 1979–1999 (2001) – Strings
The Bombay Jazz Palace (2001) – Violin
Meta Collection (2002) – Violin
Asana: Soul Practice (2002) – Violin, arranger
Classical Indian Collection (2003) – Violin
Bhakti Music: Medicine Buddha (2003) – Photography
Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime (2003) – Violin
Left of the Dial: Dispatches of the '80s Underground (2004) – Strings
Phil Collins's The Platinum Collection (2004) – Violin, tamboura
Trilok Gurtu Collection (2005) – Violin
Monterey Pop Festival (2007) – Arranger
John McLaughlin's Essential John McLaughlin (2007) – Violin

v t e L. Shankar
Albums	Touch Me There (1979) Who's to Know (1980) Vision (1984) Song for Everyone (1985) The Epidemics (1986) Raga Aberi (1995)
Related articles:	Discography Shakti