This came out in 2000 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Indian sitarist Ananda Shankar comes by the Experience tag honestly — back in the ’60s, this nephew of Ravi jammed with Jimi Hendrix and covered Jumpin’ Jack Flash and Light My Fire.
Three decades later, Shankar’s flirtations with Western sounds continues with Walking On, a collaboration with British hip-hopper and electronica artist State of Bengal, aka Sam Zaman. The pair create the perfect musical mixed marriage — the bendy twang of Shankar’s timeless sitar flows effortlessly along inside Zaman’s tabla-tronic grooves and electro-ethno rock rhythms, producing a hybrid sound guaranteed to please fans of culture-clash combos like Asian Dub Foundation. Sadly, Shankar has since walked on to that big jam session with Jimi in the sky, but this disc is a fine way to cap his legacy.