Journey on the Strings [Live]

Habib Khan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 20, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: X Dot 25
• ASIN: B00005RDEV
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #845,937 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars reminds one why rock went raga, April 9, 2005

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Johann Cat "Grauer Kater" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Journey on the Strings (Audio CD)

If it is a cliché that Indian music blends spiritual uplift and a sweet, libidinous surge, not unlike some kinds of gospel, blues, and rocknroll, well, let it be, because this is a great example of Indian music as sexy and meditative at once. This is an instrumental, "orchestral" record with sitar and Indian string instruments prominent (no violin/ cello sections, mind you) that occasionally rocks, I kid you not.
The track called "Butterfly" is one of the best rocknroll numbers I have heard in the last year--it compares to something like "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin in its drive and emotional scope, uniting a massive, repeated riff to great Indian drum work. This record not only makes one feel, unembarrassedly, like he's at a party at George Harrison's house in 1967, but it reminds one of just WHY rock become fascinated with Indian music: it can be full of scintillating layers of percussion, with urgent deep notes and emotive string work, absent guitars, that will rock your socks off. This is also very happy music without being maudlin; despite its very real instrumental sophistication, the whole experience is closer to a free garage band than to a paid evening with the Boston Symphony. And lest I misrepresent this, it is also quiet and soothing enough in many places for tea and conversation, too.