A reunion of most of the original Shakti group formed by John McLaughlin in the mid 1970s.

In 1997, Zakir Hussain was invited by the Arts Council of England to reunite the band for a British mini-tour. McLaughlin and Hussain remained friends and collaborators since the original group's disbanding in 1978 and even engaged in a brief Shakti reunion tour of India in 1984. But the emergence of Remember Shakti marked the first significant activity invoking the band’s name in nearly 25 years. The slightly-modified name resulted from McLaughlin and Hussain's inability to locate the whereabouts of L. Shankar. The 1997 concerts also featured original member T.H. Vinayakram, and guest North Indian bansuri player Hariprasad Chaurasia. The resulting double album captured a complete gig from the tour.

For the band's next album, The Believer, recorded live and released in 1999, Chaurasia and Vinayakram were replaced by electric mandolin player U. Shrinivas, and Vinayakram's son V. Selvaganesh. The band's most recent live album, 2001's Saturday Night in Bombay, was augmented by an army of guests, notably Shivkumar Sharma (santoor), percussionist Taufiq Qureshi who is the brother of Zakir Hussain, and Shankar Mahadevan, who has now become Remember Shakti's fulltime vocalist. The band has toured extensively all around the world.