photos: Ira Landgarten top, John Wilton btm.

"Although guitar is a foreign instrument, he has a tremendous command over it. He has given a new dimension to it by merging the sound and style of guitar, sitar and sarod. The effect of his playing is unique."-- Padmavibhushan Ravi Shankar

Raga-208:

VISHWA MOHAN BHATT guitar...SUKHVINDAR SINGH tabla
LIVE · PITTSBURGH, 1989

Rag BIHAG...59:55
guitar solo:
1 alap (freeform, without meter)...13:19
2 jor (with a pulse)...11:53
3 jhalla (fast, rhythmic)...2:51
guitar and tabla:
4 gat in slow tintal (16 beat rhythm cycle)...18:22
5 fast tintal...13:30

Rag DESH...10:54
6 gat in sitarkhani tal (16 beat syncopated cycle)


Digital Recording * Total Time...70:49
Stereo DDD * UPC: 704482020821
Please also note that Raga Records has a cassette available (Raga-105) with a different program (Available only on cassette).

Raga Cassette 105 \\||// 208 booklet text \\||// Review of Vishwa Mohan Bhatt in Accoustic Guitar