Spirit Room [Import]

Jai Uttal | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 20, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Triloka Records
• ASIN: B00004TQSA
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,340 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Jai, August 7, 2000

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"danceheals" (Concord, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spirit Room (Audio CD)

For people new to Jai Uttal, Spirit Room would be a good cd to acquaint you to his wonderful world fusion style and soaring vocals. However, if you already have Shiva Station and Beggars & Saints, (as I do) you have 90% of the songs on this cd. I was under the mistaken impression Spirit Room was a collection of new music by this great artist, and I was sorely disappointed to find out this was not the case. (Next time I'll be sure to click on the sound samples before buying.)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spirit Room, August 28, 2000

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"hunan" (Littleton, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spirit Room (Audio CD)

If you like Sting's single entitled "Desert Rose", then you will enjoy this CD. In fact, Jai Uttal has been blending Indian instruments and percussion with western rock music for quite a long time.

The first song on the CD is as strong as "Desert Rose". In fact, I like it better. There are several songs in English on the CD. The majority are traditional Hindu chants set to the creative arrangements of Jai Uttal and his Love Pagan Orchestra. Some sound very tradionally Indian while others almost have a India/Smooth Jazz feel to them.

Jai Uttal is a master at fusing two musical genres thus creating an exciting, exotic and haunting new sound--but without damaging the integrity of either musical genre. This album is a retrospective of his four previous albums.

I like it a bunch and highly recommend it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is a "best of" CD - and a nice one, July 2, 2001

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Prayer Flags in the Woods (Humboldt County, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spirit Room (Audio CD)

... If you are a fan of Jai Uttal's, you'll really like this record. Then again if you are a fan of his, it is likely that you already have everything on this record. If on the other hand, you only kinda like him, or if you (like me) find the "concept" of Jai Uttal kinda cool (a concept that seems to me to consist of jazzy, rockin', westernized versions of "hindu" music - that is bhajans and kirtans), but feel that he has been a bit inconsistent in the fulfillment of that concept over the years - than I reckon you'd also like this record, as it pretty much takes the most successful pieces from his previous records and puts them on a single disc. That is a long winded way of saying: if you like Jai Uttal, and you ain't got his other records, get this one. Otherwise, forget it.