Album

A Meeting By The River

Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt

1993 · Jazz, Folk, World, & Country

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A Meeting By The River by Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt

A Meeting By The River is a Jazz album by Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt, originally released in 1993. On Gatefold: 13 pressings tracked.

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Ry Cooder joins up with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt -who plays his 20-string Indian slide guitar, the Mohan Veena. This album won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 1994.

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Sound DNA

  • Jazz
  • Jazz Fusion
  • sparse
  • meditative
  • spiritual

Winner of Best World Music Album in the 1994 Grammy Awards. The illustrated booklet [from the CD edition] contains four pages of notes describing the equipment used for the recording and background on Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt, Bhatt's mohan vina (an instrument he designed himself, featuring twelve sympathetic strings, three melody strings and five drone strings, played -like Cooder's guitar- with a slide), the recording and the circumstances that brought them together. The second drummer, Joachim Cooder, is Ry Cooder's son. NB: In the book that came with the 1993 Trance Europe Express 2CD compilation, Alex Paterson of The Orb included this release among his top 12 ambient albums of all-time, adding "I only wish we [The Orb] could have produced some of this record. It would be a match made in heaven."

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Joachim CooderGOBLET DRUM
  • Ry CooderGUITAR SLIDE GUITAR
  • Sukhvinder Singh NamdhariTABLA

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