The one hundred ninety-second album: #192 Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar
The Beatles started to include Indian influences in their musi as they drifted towards psychedelia, with the sitar being an important instrument used in that. It feels natural then that this is a stream that developed further. Ananda Shankar had moved to the US a few years earlier and gotten involved with the rock groups of the era. His first, self-titled album brings that in, but instead features his sitar playing first, with a rock influence in the background. Some of that comes through in the (mostly) instrumental covers of rock songs, which keep that rock sound as well, while Mamata has the feel of a jazz improv number instead, the sitar supported by quieter instruments.
Metamorphosis really feels like the point the psychedelia ramps up, not just in the stranger soundscape, but also the repetition that heightens the emotions. The later tracks go back to something that sounds more traditional, but there is that undertone of modernity that creates an interesting fusion, even if it's not compelling for me in the long run.