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Sanjay Mishra with Jerry Garcia - Blue Incantation Audio CD

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Sanjay Mishra with Jerry Garcia Band: Sanjay Mishra with Jerry Garcia
Title: Blue Incantation
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Release Date: 1995-09-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: My Meditation - Sanjay Mishra 2: Monsoon - Jerry Garcia, Sanjay Mishra 3: For Julia - Jerry Garcia, Sanjay Mishra 4: Allegro - Sanjay Mishra 5: Clouds (To Jerry Garcia) - Jerry Garcia, Sanjay Mishra 6: Passage into Dawn - Sanjay Mishra 7: Self Portrait - Sanjay Mishra 8: Back in Time - Sanjay Mishra 9: Nocturne/Evening Chant - Jerry Garcia, Sanjay Mishra 10: Before Summer Rain - Sanjay Mishra

Pleasant Noodling
This is a recording that will probably sound like nothing else in your collection, and which you may find fun to pull out occasionally on a Saturday afternoon while you are waiting for your noodles to boil. Guitarist Sanjay Mishra noodles pleasantly in an Eastern style, accompanied by tabla, bass, percussion, and on a few cuts, by the now deceased Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who noodles pleasantly in classic Jerry Garcia style. This is truly music to noodle by. . . .


Blues for Brahma
Indian guitarist Sanjay Mishra, who moved to the US from Calcutta, blends acoustic music with native percussion and a New Age sensibility. "Blue Incantation" is a thoughtful, meditative album. His debut album was also Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's last. Garcia guests on the songs "Monsoon","Clouds",and "Nocturne/Evening Chant. " Garcia was on the verge of some electrifying East-West fusion when he passed away,giving this album a poignant quality.

The opening song,"My meditation" is introspective and melancholy. "For Julia" is a quiet love song. "Passage into dawn" is an eerie threnody. It is musical twilight. Though it is his final album,Garcia's contributions in "Monsoon","Clouds",and "Nocturne/Evening Chant" show him still in fine form. He gives a bluesy,acid rock flavor to Sanjay's Indian acoustic melodies. It's the Indian complement to the Arabic "Blues for Allah. " All three songs are instrumentals that wouldn't have been out of place on a Grateful Dead album. "Self Portrait" has Sanjay melding his classical background with Indian sensibilities. "Bach in time" is a marvelous blend of classical Western music with Indian acoustic guitar. Sanjay takes a classical Bach piece and makes it his own.

"Blue Incantation" stands as Jerry Garcia's musical final will&testament,wishing shanti (peace) on humanity. This album is a peaceful,meditative masterpiece.


Jerry Garcia's final divine blues
It's a bittersweet taste of East/ West fusion. Sanjay Mishra's "Blue Incantation" is a wonderful album of meditative acoustic Indian music. Mishra collaborates with Grateful Dead front man, Jerry Garcia, in "Monsoon", "Clouds" and "Nocturne/ Evening Chant. " Since this album was Garcia's last, "Blue Incantaion" has a tragic quality to it. It stands as Garcia's musical will and testament, proclaiming shanti (peace) to the earth.

"My meditation" and "Self portrait" are introspective, thoughtful pieces. "Passage into dawn" samples a Hindu chant. "For Julia",originally composed for a soundtrack,is a love song. "Bach in time" in an East/West fusion of Indian and Western classical music. Mishra makes Bach's music into his own,making it timeless. "Monsoon","Clouds" and "Nocturne/ Evening Chant" are Indian acid jams, complete with Garcia's masterful playing. It's as if Blues for Allah had become Blues for Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva. Garcia was on the brink of some powerful Asian explorations;tragically,his premature death cut them short.

"Blue Incantation" is a perfect introduction to fusion music as well as Indian music. Relaxing, meditative, melancholy, it takes one into a timeless realm.


incredible music, but not jerry's best
A few of the tracks are absolutely mindblowing compositions that take you on a journey winding through time and space. This is a great gateway album to indian music. However, Jerry Garcia's additions are the weakest part of the album. He plays electric guitar, sits in the background playing long notes while sanjay noodles endlessly. Makes Jerry look bad. This album is worth it by all means if nothing else, just for the song "Julia", which flies sky high with electrical energy that makes the body shake, the eyes roll back in the head.


Staying Power
Sanjay Mishra. Most artists who are popularized at any given moment in history are vastly overated. . . particularly as evidenced in his 'Blue Incantation' album, is not one of those artists. The creative and thoughtful balance of this man's craft will be as fresh tomorrow as any of the known European composers are today.


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