- Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures (1992) – Violin, vocals
- Animal Logic's Animal Logic (1989) – Violin
- Anthony Hindson and Friends' It's a Curious Life (1999) with Jack Bruce, Tony Williams, Zakir Hussain, Gary Husband and Scott Thunes – Violin
- Archie Shepp's Attica Blues (1972) – Violin
- Artists United Against Apartheid's Sun City (1985) – Double violin
- Bill Laswell's Deconstruction: Celluloid Recordings (1994) – Violin
- Charly García's Cómo conseguir chicas (1988) – Violin
- Chris Murphy's Luminous (2007) – Vocals
- Clifford Thornton's Communication Network (1972) – Violin
- Daryll Dobson's The Mind Electric (1986) – 10-string double violin
- Echo & the Bunnymen's Porcupine (1983) – Strings
- Egberto Gismonti's Circense (1979) – Violin
- Fernando Saunder's Spin (1993) – Double violin
- Frank Zappa's Everything Is Healing Nicely (1999) – Violin
- Frank Zappa's Halloween (2003) – Violin
- Gary Wright's Who I Am (1988) – Violin
- Ginger Baker's Horses & Trees (1986) – Violin
- Jai Uttal's Footprints (1990) – Vocals
- James Newton Howard's Hidalgo OST (2004) – Double violin, Vocal
- John McLaughlin's Guitar & Bass (2004) – Violin
- John McLaughlin's John McLaughlin's Montreux concerts (2004) – Violin, arranger
- Jonathan Davis and the SFA's Alone I Play (2007) – Vocal, Violin
- Jonathan Davis's Black Labyrinth (2018) – Vocal, Violin
- Lou Reed's New Sensations (1984) – Violin
- Marianne Faithfull's Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology (1998) – Double violin
- Mark O'Connor's Heroes (1993) – double violin, composer
- Maurice Jarre's Jacob's Ladder OST (1990) – Violin, vocals, performer, double violin
- Material's Hallucination Engine (1993) – Violin (Electric)
- Material's Seven Souls (1989) – Violin
- Mercan Dede's Seyahatname (2003)
- Midge Ure's Breathe (1996) – Vocals, double violin
- Narada Michael Walden's Nature of Things (1985) – Violin
- Percy Ensemble Jones' Propeller Music (1996) – Violin
- Peter Gabriel's Blood of Eden (UK) (1994) – Violin
- Peter Gabriel's Blood of Eden (US) (1993) – Violin
- Peter Gabriel's Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) – Double violin, Vocal
- Peter Gabriel's Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ (1989) – Double violin, vocals, composer of "Open" (uncredited composer of additional music)
- Peter Gabriel's Play the Videos (2004) – Vocal, double violin
- Peter Gabriel's Secret World Live (1994) – Violin, vocals
- Peter Gabriel's So (1986) – Violin, Vocal
- Peter Gabriel's Up (2002) – Double violin
- Peter Gabriel's Us (1992) – Violin
- Peter Gabriel's OVO (2000) – Violin, vocals
- Peter Murphy's Dust (2002)
- Phil Collins' Face Value (1981) (as Shankar)
- Phil May and the Fallen Angels' Fallen Angels (2003) – Violin
- Public Image Ltd.’s Album/Compact disc/Cassette (1986) – Electric violin
- Queen of the Damned: Music from the Motion Picture (2002) – Vocals, double violin
- Robin DiMaggio's Blue Planet (2001) – Vocal, Double violin
- Ryuichi Sakamoto's Beauty (1990) – Violin
- Saro Cosentino's One's & Zero's (1998) – Vocals, double violin
- Sérgio Dias's Sérgio Dias (1980) – Violin, songwriting credit
- Shadowfax's Esperanto (1992) – violin
- SXL's Into the Outlands (1994) – Vocal, Electric violin
- Swans' The Burning World (1989) – Violin
- Talking Heads's Speaking in Tongues (1983) – Violin
- The Human Abstract's Midheaven (2008) – Vocals
- The Passion of the Christ OST (2004) – Composer, vocals, double violin
- The Pretenders' Get Close (1986) – Violin
- The Pretenders' Pirate Radio (2006) – Violin
- The Wailing Souls' All Over the World (1992) – Violin
- Tony Levin's World Diary (1996) – Vocals, double violin
- Talking Heads's Speaking in Tongues (1983) – Violin
- Trilok Gurtu's African Fantasy (1999) – songwriting credit
- Trilok Gurtu's Usfret (1987) – Violin
- Toto's Falling in Between (2006) (as Shenkar) – Vocals, violin
- Taufiq's Taalisma (2004) – Percussion, drums
- Udistam Patric Lenoard & Shankar Vocal, Double violin, Composer
- White Sands OST (1992) – Percussion, violin, vocals
- Warren Cuccurullo's The Blue (2000) – Vocal, Violin
- Yoko Ono's Starpeace (1985) – Violin
- Yoko Ono's Walking on Thin Ice (1992) – Violin
- Zimbo Trio’s Zimbo Convida (1982)
