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.
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