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A Meeting By The River

Ry Cooder, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Audio CD
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Product details

  • Audio CD (1 Sep 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Waterlily Acoustics
  • ASIN: B000005L9Z
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 53,557 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. A Meeting By The River10:08Album Only
Listen  2. Longing11:58Album Only
Listen  3. Ganges Delta Blues 9:59Album Only
Listen  4. Isa Lei 7:49Album Only


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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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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Peace and longing 7 Oct 2001
Format:Audio CD
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.

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Another successful collaboration 22 Nov 2000
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Be at peace with the world and yourself 14 Jun 2005
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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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