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Meeting Rivers
M Path
Meeting Rivers
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Special Interest, New Age
 
For openers on Meeting Rivers, there's a hoedown of sorts, a hip cross-pollination of cheerful, contemporary grooves and a spirited sitar. Next comes "Strange World," with its laconic, offbeat choir and its unlikely India-...  more »

     
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All Artists: M Path
Title: Meeting Rivers
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Triloka
Release Date: 5/21/2002
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Special Interest, New Age
Styles: Ambient, India & Pakistan, India, Experimental Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 801298201724

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For openers on Meeting Rivers, there's a hoedown of sorts, a hip cross-pollination of cheerful, contemporary grooves and a spirited sitar. Next comes "Strange World," with its laconic, offbeat choir and its unlikely India-meets-the-Tropics vibe, then another groove-based meander through pockets of jazz flute, light chanting, and Indian instrumentation. Meeting Rivers, clearly, marks the confluence of many diverse elements, a colorful, largely upbeat musical mishmash that might be best described as world-pop fusion, but who really knows? M Path, the group name assumed by two musician-producers, Gardner Cole and Mitchell Markus, also involve a circle of friends that includes sarangi master Ramesh Mishra. Though not every piece works, the mostly instrumental project smartly weaves Indian instruments into rhythmic Western musical textures to yield such cross-cultural flings as "Om Mani," a dreamily propulsive piece (also the disc's best track), and "Jagad Ma," a slightly warped, Indian-flavored romp for guitar and violin. The disc concludes with a mod, earnest raga ("The Longing"), one last quirk on a loose-knit, off-center yet accessible recording. --Terry Wood
 

CD Reviews

Sunrise Trance
Zimi Ahzrix | Great Lakes, United States | 10/01/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Well, I am a nomadic gypsy dead head and I can tell you that this CD is fantastic piece of GOA trance dance that can make a beach bunch party until the dawn...sort of the music that Madonna searches the world over so she can cop its atmosphere...Flute, sarods, sitars, loping beats and occasional vocals by smokey throated singers...Trip your chakra clear...A great find indeed!"