Sleepless Nights [Import]

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Artist), Matt Malley (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 13, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: World Village
• ASIN: B0030UO9Y0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,320 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Indian classical music legend Vishwa Mohan Bhatt has mesmerized the world with his dazzling musicality, virtuosity and astonishing command of the Mohan Veena (an instrument he designed a modified and Easternized slide guitar). Bhatt is
best known in the US for his GRAMMY® award winning album A Meeting by the River, which he made with guitar great Ry Cooder. Guitarist Matt Malley is an Oscar®, GRAMMY® and Golden Globe® nominated songwriter who co-founded the multi-platinum rock group Counting Crows. Malley is also a big fan of North Indian classical music and a friend and student of Bhatt. When chance brings them together, either Malley is taking lessons from his music guru at Bhatt s home in Jaipur, India, or he is recording with Bhatt in his home studio in Thousand Oaks, California. Speaking about Sleepless Nights, their new album for World Village, Bhatt says, In my view, music is the melody for life. The seven musical notes carry all the diverse shades of love and this musical album is an endeavor to spread the message of love and harmony all over the world. In the contemporary world, love is the only emotion which needs to be experienced and appreciated, and Sleepless Nights, propagates this sacred emotion. Malley adds, I hope that our record will put at least one more brick in the bridge between the East, West and all races of the world.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully played Slide Guitar and Base, June 23, 2010

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Satish R. Mopur - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sleepless Nights (Audio CD)

Shri Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is really amazing and clear in his expressions and the themes that he is playing Also, Matt Malley is an amzing Base Guitar Player, also a slide guitarist. Really have a lot of gratitude for them. This music is so relaxing and helps to go deeper if you plan to use it for meditation.
Its a must have for everybody. Looking forward for more albums to come.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Modern Indian Music -A collaboration of Beauty and Love, March 5, 2011

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applewood (everywhere and nowhere) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sleepless Nights (Audio CD)

This collaboration of Indian mohan veena master (Indian slide/resonator guitar) V.M. Bhatt and former Counting Crows bassist Matt Malley is a real treat. Not as precious as some such world music collaborations have been, this sounds like friends playing (accompanied by Subhen Chatterjee on tablas and percussion) - relaxed (and relaxing) yet playful and energetic. The music is clearly Indian but with Malley's (also a serious student of traditional Indian music) Western bass and keyboard parts it has a modern and world encompassing sound. From the perspective of traditional Indian music it may even seem outrageous, impatient and crude, but to my American ears it is plenty sublime and subtle.

This is joyously spiritual music, not timid and gentle but bold and confident. And full of longing for oneness...through the sleepless nights of this life.