Water Lily LP WLA-ES-23: V.M. Bhatt, Mohan Vina - SARADAMANI - OOP 1992 SEALED

$

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Vishwa Mohan Bhatt also known as V. M. Bhatt (born July 12, 1950) is an Indian slide guitar player. Bhatt is the creator of the Mohan Veena. He performs Hindustani classical music and won a Grammy Award in 1994. The mohan vina is a guitar modified with the addition of several drone strings and eight sympathetic strings, playing it like a Hawaiian slide guitar to get the sustained, sliding notes common to the vocal style of Indian classical music. Saradanabu is actually one of Bhatt's more traditional outings, with straightforward production capturing the impressive interplay between the string virtuoso and tabla player Sukhvinder Namdari. These North Indian folk and classical selections don't reinvent the genre in the way some of Bhatt's more experimental efforts have, but it is an incredible performance from one of Indian music's most distinctive innovators.

 It is for his Grammy winning album A Meeting by the River with Ry Cooder and other fusion and pan-cultural collaborations with Western artists like Taj Mahal, Béla Fleck and Jerry Douglas, that Bhatt is best known, although exposure such as an appearance on the 2004 Crossroads Guitar Festival, which was organized by Eric Clapton, does allow for this side of his playing to reach a larger audience.

He received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1998 and the Padma Shri in 2002.

Folk musician Harry Manx, who studied with Salil Bhatt and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt for five years, plays a Mohan Veena. Counting Crows' Bassist Matt Malley also plays a Mohan Veena and is a student and friend of Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.Australian Musician Lawrie Minson also learnt Mohan Veena from Salil and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.

Vishwa Mohan lives in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, with his two sons and his wife. His elder son Salil Bhatt is a renowned Mohan veena player (and also a player of the Satvik veena), whose album Slide to Freedom Part II was nominated for the Canadian JUNO AWARD and also featured in pre-Grammy nominations list, while his younger son Saurabh Bhatt is a well known composer.Vishwa Mohan Bhatt's grandson Satvik Bhatt is also a musician and a Limca Book Of World Record holder for being world's youngest Mohan Veena Player at the age of 3 and a half years and also for identifying 45 ragas at the age of 3 and a half years. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt's parents late Manmohan Bhatt and late Chandrakala Bhatt were also teaching and performing musicians who imparted knowledge of music to V.M Bhatt.

His nephew, Krishna Bhatt, plays the sitar and tabla.

This album, according to Kavichandran Alexander's sleeve notes "was planned in honor of the three main sources that have enriched Hindustani music: the folk tradition, the singer-saints of Islam and Hinduism, and the caste/guild of courtesans and dancing.

Water Lily Acoustics is an American record label based in Santa Barbara, California. It primarily releases recordings of Indian classical music and cross-cultural collaborations between musicians from around the world. The label was founded by the producer Kavichandran Alexander, a Tamil originally from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

Kavichandran Alexander is well known in the audiophile community for his purist approach to recording and his love for analog electronics and tape machines. He records almost exclusively using the Blumlein binaural or Stereosonic method invented by Alan Blumlein, which involves the usage of two bidirectional microphones in a 'coincident', 'crossed pair' configuration. It is believed that this approach "yields the most natural musical balance and the proper ratio of direct-to-reflected sound".

Release date: 1992

This ebay listing is for a super rare, long out of print and factory sealed audiophile LP title -

• Water Lily Recordings LP Item - "???" record labels with "???" lettering (item is FACTORY SEALED).

• LP was made in the USA

• Pressing is in STEREO

• This is a pure analog recording done exclusively with custom built vacuum tube electronics, all TRIODE recording chain.
  

• This is a LIMITED EDITION LP, made with the ONE STEP PLATING PROCESS
  

• Produced and Recorded by Kavichandrin Alexander in May, 1991 at the Unitarian Church in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

• Record Catalog Number: WLA-ES-23
  

Featuring the music of -

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, guitar & mohan vina

Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari, tabla

LP Title -

SARADAMANI

Performing -

• 1. Vaisnava Bhajan
  2. Dhun In Rag Pitu
  3. Romantic Dhun
  4. Kajari From Varanasi
  5. Dhun In Rag Pahadi
  6. Rasiya From Mathura
  

CONDITION Details:

The JACKET is in Mint condition. The jacket is completely intact, with NO seam splits. This item is FACTORY SEALED. The jacket shows very little shelf wear - primarily the corners and seams. The jacket has NO drill holes or saw marks of any kind. See picture with this listing for more detail. 

The LP is assumed to be in Mint condition! This item is FACTORY SEALED.

A Short Note About LP GRADING -

• Mint = Only used for sealed items.
• Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
• Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
• Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
• Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.

For best results, always properly clean your LPs before playing them.

The LP is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Don't let this rarity slip by!!!