Album Review: N Ravikiran, Taj Mahal, VM Bhatt Mumtaz Mahal Water Lily Accoustics WLA-CS-46-CD

From: The Independent - London | Date: July 7, 1995| Author: ANDY GILL | Copyright information

As with Meeting by the River, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt's 1993 collaboration with Taj Mahal's former colleague Ry Cooder, Mumtaz Mahal effects a meeting of East and West outsider traditions, pairing the bluesman's National steel guitar with Bhatt's mohan vina (an acoustic slide guitar with 12 additional resonating sympathetic strings) and N Ravikiran's chitra vina (a 21-string fretless lute).

Unlike that earlier album, though, it's Taj's western blues voicings that...

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