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Mumtaz Mahal | 
 enlarge | Artists: Taj Mahal, V.m. Bhatt
Label: Water Lily Acoustics
Category: Music
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 204149
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 707723004628
EAN: 0707723004628
ASIN: B000002VYL
Release Date: May 16, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Coming of the Mandinka - Taj Mahal, Mahal, Taj | | • | Come on in My Kitchen - Taj Mahal, Johnson, Robert [1] | | • | Rolling on the Sea - Taj Mahal, Mahal, Taj | | • | Mary Don't You Weep - Taj Mahal, Traditional | | • | Stand by Me - Taj Mahal, King, Ben E. | | • | Johnny Too Bad - Taj Mahal, Crooks, Sydney | | • | Curry and Quartertones - Taj Mahal, |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
In 1992, producer Kavichandran Alexander recorded California bottleneck guitarist Ry Cooder and North Indian classical musician Bhatt in a Santa Barbara church, and the resulting A Meeting by the River won a 1994 Grammy. Here, Alexander returns to the church with Bhatt and Cooder's old bandmate, Taj Mahal, a blues musician who named himself after the most famous mausoleum in India. Bhatt, a Ravi Shankar student, plays the mohan vina, an instrument he invented to combine the timbre of the arched-top American jazz guitar with the sympathetic strings of the Indian sitar. Ravikiran plays the chitra vina, perhaps the world's oldest slide instrument; Mahal plays National steel guitar and adds moaning scat vocals. With their sliding pitches, all three instruments find the notes between the notes of traditional Western scales, and the three players find a common ground in the religious/sexual cries that skid through scales. --Geoffrey Himes
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| Customer Reviews:
 One of the most Emotionally Moving recordings i have heard July 3, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
the passion heard in the selections nearly brings me to tears inside. for some reason this collaboration hits me right to the center of my heart and soul--like a type of music i've been waiting for and finally found. maybe there is a previously unreleased version of "Amazing Grace" that will show up on a later digitally remastered disc. if only we could know what other songs they had considered incorporating. yes..it's that Good ! Gospel-Blues-Reggae,it's all here for the taking. Cherish the moment over and over.
 Doodle June 29, 2003
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
After repeated listenings, why I don't know, this album has just gotten worse. If one compares it to MEETING BY THE RIVER, it really palls. "Johnny Too Bad" is the only cut I can imaging listening to again - hence the 1 star. Sorry, Taj.
too many fillers too much fumbling July 10, 2001
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This CD was a great disappointment to me as I like all of the artists.Tracks 1 and 3 are purely instrumental and meander along in a very unstriking fashion. In the songs Bhatt and Ravikiran don't seem too sure what thay are meant to be doing, so only very occasionally is there any fluidity in their playing.
 Another great Mahaler May 20, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Anyone who was intrigued by _Kulanjan_ will find this album of interest too; it's another exploration by Taj Mahal of how his music intersects and interlocks with that of another culture, in this case, Indian. Throughout the album, the music is understated but definitely stands up well under repeat listens - especially the 11-minute-plus version of Robert Johnson's "Come on in my kitchen".
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