Journey [Original recording reissued, Import]

Ali Akbar Khan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Import
• Label: Triloka Records
• ASIN: B000047998
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #865,163 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Come Back My Love

2. Fantasy

3. Lullaby

4. Anticipation

5. Farewell

6. Journey

7. Carnival Of Mother Kali

8. Temple Music

9. Morning Meditation

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Western ears to eastern music, March 3, 2002

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Rande G. Jacobson (Rockford, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Journey (Audio CD)

Journey was the first Eastern Classical music I ever bought. I know, I know, it's a blending of eastern and western music. That is how I became a lover of eastern music.
I had heard eastern classical music only on TV shows about India, a little here.. a little there.
If I had heard straight eastern music it would have been jarring to my ears. This CD allowed me to listen and enjoy the eastern instuments playing music that I was used to.
I have since bought scores of eastern classical CD's, flutes, sitars, sarods. A little bit of everything, all because of Journey.
Rande G. Jacobson

5.0 out of 5 stars Effective Blending of East and West, September 23, 2010

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Larry Nelson (Santa Monica, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Journey (Audio CD)

I became interested in Indian music through a friend, and also through research on the Silk Routes from China to India and points west. The first music that really got my attention was Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble. Then I heard of a group called Ghazal, which also melds Eastern and Western styles.

The next step was Indian classical. I took a flyer on a CD by Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute) and was completely enthralled. I've since acquired some vocal classical, and sitar, and sarod. The bansri (flute) is my favorite for its expressiveness.

Sometimes, though, I'm in a different mood, and go back to the blends of West and East. I've heard some that work and many that don't work. Ali Akbar Khan's "Journey" is one that works quite well for me. Somehow these people have mixed the styles and instruments and come up with something that, for me, bears up under repeated listening.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why can't they just leave it alone?, November 19, 2000

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Jeffrey Lopez-Stuit (Tukwila, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Journey (Audio CD)

This disc takes the master's music and layers it sythesizers and schmaltzy arrangements that the producers probably think will make it more friendly to western ears. The result is classic Indian music turned into tacky wallpaper. Why can't they just let the great music stand on it's own?