Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt, A Meeting by the River - 39m 27s

Tracks & Durations

1. A Meeting By The River	10:00
2. Longing	11:53
3. Ganges Delta Blues	9:56
4. Isa Lei	7:33

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Review

Ry Cooder has long had an interest in other people's music, from the blues and gospel of black America through classic jazz and the music of Cuba. Even by this standard, his meeting with Mohan Vishwa Bhatt is certainly a departure. He is neither a serious student of Indian music nor in any way a master of its intricacies. Yet on his improvised session (this album was recorded without rehearsal in one evening), he and Bhatt truly collided musically and created moments worthy of the world-music Grammy they received for it. Bhatt is an iconoclastic character himself. He plays a modified box he calls the mohan vina that is a hybrid of a classical Indian instrument and slide guitar. He is long trained in the arduous classical style, yet his work has always demanded a lot of freedom. His duets here with Cooder are completely unique, liberating both artists from the usual constraints and creating a new musical style that is unlikely to be repeated or imitated. --Louis Gibson

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A Meeting by the River

Tracks: 4, Disk length: 39m 48s (+0m 21s)

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