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All songs written by Ry Cooder and V.M. Bhatt, except "Isa Lei" (Lieut. A.W. Caten).
A MEETING BY THE RIVER won the 1994 Grammy Award for "World-Music Album."
A Meeting by the River can best be described as a spontaneous outpouring of music, unhindered by convention or form, brought into being by musicians so supremely capable that the music is never labored, the technique of their craft always subservient to the final product. Cooder and Bhatt are genuine masters of the guitar and mohan vina, respectively. The latter, an instrument created by Bhatt himself, is a sort of hybrid between a guitar and a vichitra vina, and is played with a metal slide. This fact is just one of the many things that connect Bhatt's playing to Cooder's, who plays nothing but bottleneck guitar here. The musical interplay between Cooder and Bhatt is nothing short of astounding, especially so considering that they met for the first time only a half-hour before the recording of this album. The voices of the two instruments blend marvelously, first alternating melodic statements, then doing so together, each dancing around the other, playing cat and mouse, probing, answering, reflecting. They are ably accompanied by a pair of percussionists: tabla player Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari and Cooder's own son, Joachim, on dumbek. A Meeting by the River is one of those few cross-genre albums in which the listener never feels for a second that there is some kind of fusion going on; one does not hear the component parts so much as the integrated whole. However, one can theoretically separate guitar from vina, America from India, the Mississippi from the Ganges. Once this is done, the resulting music makes more sense than ever before, the combination of two traditions of stringed instruments that use slides to produce sound and value improvisation and voice-like phrasing. As good as this sounds on paper, the actual results are even more impressive. The splendor of the music is aided in its transmission by the fact that, like all Water Lily Acoustics releases, this album is masterfully recorded; each instrument is clear, distinct, and three-dimensional sounding. A Meeting by the River is a must-own, a thing of pure, unadulterated beauty, and the strongest record in Cooder's extensive catalog. ~ Daniel Gioffre
A blend of bottleneck guitar and East Indian instruments. The classic recording by Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.
Recorded at Christ The King Chapel, St. Anthony's Seminary, Santa Barbara, California in September 1992. Includes liner notes by Jelaluddin Rumi.
Personnel: Ry Cooder (guitar, bottleneck guitar); Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (slide guitar); Joachim Cooder (dumbek); Sukhivinder Singh Namdhari, Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari (tabla).
Liner Note Authors: Rumi; Kavichandran Alexander.
Recording information: Christ the King Chapel, Santa Barbara, CA (09/1992).
Photographers: Mike Sexton; Susan Titelman.
Personnel: Ry Cooder (bottleneck guitar); Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (mohan vina); Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari (tabla); Joachim Cooder (dumbek).
Rolling Stone (5/13/93, p.108) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...The similarities and differences of approach to their related instruments, based on the microtonal palette of the slide guitar, add up to a world-music stew that blends references from Delta blues to New Delhi..."
Q (6/93, p.94) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Bhatt's slide playing is exquisite, searching and sensitive, captivatingly Indian in character while Cooder's bottleneck sounds as if he is truly responding to an artistic challenge and enjoying himself..."
Option (5-6/93, p.96) - "...[A MEETING BY THE RIVER is] one of the best settings imaginable for Ry Cooder's laid-back acoustic blues: a 40-minute set of improvisations with Bhatt..."
Musician (7/93, p.94) - "...an improvisational masterpiece...[Cooder and Bhatt] gracefully toss complex melodic ideas back and forth with a sympathy and intuitive sense that are nothing short of magical...why waste time trying to identify `highlights' on a treasure trove like this?..." Meeting By The River Music Ry Cooder Meeting By The River Songs | 1. | Meeting by the River, A |
| 2. | Longing |
| 3. | Ganges Delta Blues |
| 4. | Isa Lei |
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Meeting By The River Music Meeting By The River Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Fantastic
Put on the record then shut up and... start delighting in this incredibly beautiful masterpice !
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Excellelant improvisition and collaboration on east and west
Submitted by kunalmohanta (Hyderabad, India)
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down by the river, magicalesque!!
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