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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 between renowned US guitarist, Ry Cooder, and an equally outstanding young instrumentalist from Jaipur, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. On four extended, spontaneous tracks inspired by a river bank parable by Jelaluddin Rumi, the sound of glass against steel strings from Cooder's bottle-neck guitar contrasts and blends with the sound of a steel rod against metal strings from Bhatt's instrument of his own design, which he calls the Mohan Vina. This he evolved from the slide guitar and resembles the hollow-bodied curved-top jazz guitars of the 1920s. Rumi's poem concerns a frog and a mouse who meet on a river bank to converse in a language unhindered by the rules of grammar, and thus Cooder and Bhatt converse musically, with the complex rhythms of India added by Cooder's son, Joachim, on dumbek and Sukhwinder Singh Namdhari playing tabla. Tracks: A Meeting By The River (10.03) / Longing (11.56) / Ganges Delta Blues (9.57) / Isa Lei (7.39) This album is dedicated to Gabby Pahinui of Hawaii.
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By J. Terry
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I'll leave technical remarks to one more musical if I may. Suffice to say that listening to this album evokes such feelings of harmony, peace and acceptance in me. This is due partly to the beautiful, soulful quality of the music, and partly to an understanding that this is two musicians meeting in a world which seeks to be rid of such arbitrary boundaries as culture, nationality or 'style'. The music that these two create represents, for me, a very powerful unifying force in all things. And if that sounds too esoteric, just give it a listen!
If you love tender, meaningful music, I can't recommend this highly enough.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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Ry Cooder scores again, magically matching up his guitar skills with those of VM Bhatt. Sublime melodies with plenty of slide action from Ry, in the sparse vein of Paris Texas, but Bhatt keeps up alongside very admirably. I've no idea how these two guys met, but Mr Cooder seems to have a very sensitive nose for seeking out like-minded musical playmates... and to think that some pleb travelling in my car described this as '..curry house music..'! It's sublime, not ridiculous.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this CD some years ago - can't remember when or why - but whenever life gets overloaded this is the one to bring peace back to your world. Do NOT listen with anyone else - it is intensely private music - your companion will be unlikely to be on the same wavelength as you and, as another reviewer remarked, could ruin it for you. The beauty of the final track is beyond words.
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Great album but...
not for the first time Amazon don't send the item as listed. I ordered Meeting By the River as described, a 2008 edition, in the belief that I would receive a reissue, perhaps... Read more
Published 10 months ago by J. G. Hastie
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Essential!
Essentially the meeting of two slide guitar players - one infused with the folk blues of his native America, the other bringing all the spiritual serenity of the East in his... Read more
Published 19 months ago by os
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typical ry
If you are a fan of Ryland, then this is for you .
I feel that Ry Cooder never quites gets out of second gear . Bit like Mark Knopfler . Read more
I feel that Ry Cooder never quites gets out of second gear . Bit like Mark Knopfler . Read more
Published 22 months ago by ben
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A meeting by the river
Incredible album and a great colaboration between Cooder and Bhatt. Worth getting the album just for the last track -Isa Lei
Published on 3 Oct 2010 by Ms. A. C. Jones
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Fabulous and relaxing
I have never been 'into' Ry Cooder before but I heard a segment of this album on Desert Island Disks and was enthralled. The album is even better than the segment proved. Read more
Published on 22 Sep 2010 by Adisailor
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