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Chateau Benares (AMCD 161 AkarMusic/ASCAP, 2006 ) |
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"The music you play is hypnotic and exotic and beautiful....it calls to mind a kind of spirituality." |
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Andrea Seabrook (In a conversation with Sanjay Mishra on NPR |
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"Mishra's artistry and vision certainly deserve the exposure." |
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Mike Joyce - The Washington Post |
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"An album of intoxicating elegance and ruminative graces - check in and you won't
want to leave." |
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John Diliberto - Amazon.com Editorial Review |
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"A stunning album." |
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AllMusicGuide |
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"A name to watch, and listen to, for many years to come." |
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Global Rhythm Magazine |
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"Within its cross-cultural world is a beautiful idea: Every musical tradition, no matter how seemngly exotic, can become as familiar and soothing as our own." |
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The Daily Om |
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"One foot steeped in jazz and the other digging its toes into the sound of The Grateful Dead." |
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Relix |
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Blue Incantation (AM CD 159 AkarMusic/ASCAP,1995) |
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with Special Guest Jerry Garcia |
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"...is not about celebrity wanking…Blue Incantation has the weightlessness and solidity of music with real soul." |
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Bob Guccione Jr. SPIN 10 Best '95 |
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"A thoroughly engaging artist…an unforgettable document." |
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Amazon.com |
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"Uncommonly beautiful. Garcia's hauntingly vulnerable contribution...as eloquent a goodbye as one could wish for." |
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Billboard |
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"A beguling fusion of Indian subtlety and laid back Western sensuality. One of the year's best. A beautiful and treasurable souvenir." |
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Stereo Review |
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"Sanjay is a superb writer and guitarist, with a brilliant melodic sense...a seamless album of highly evocative instrumentals." |
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Mix |
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"A memorable record." |
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The Boston Globe CD pick of the week. |
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"Fascinating…with Garcia peering into realms of his talent that rarely emerged with the Dead." |
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The Los Angeles Times |
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"Listen and you'll know why Garcia chose to make this very unorthodox appearance." |
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San Jose Mercury News |
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"Offers some of the best playing of his (Garcia's) later years…his runs often show a harmonic sophistication that had not been part of his Grateful Dead persona for decades." |
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Star Ledger. New Jersey |
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"Without question the prettiest instrumental guitar album released this year." |
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The New York Post CDs of the week |
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"Mishra is impressive...his lyrical guitar lines soar." |
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The Washington Post |
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"Mishra plays with an eclecticism well suited for his multicultural background...selections (with
Garcia) are lovely and expansive." |
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The Denver Post |
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"One of Garcia's rare studio triumphs. Mishra's feverish fretwork shines." |
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L.A. Daily News |
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"A magnificant epitaph for Captain Trips. Simply gorgeous, divine." |
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Mojo. London |
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"A consolidation of the unique brand of Indian jazz rock revealed to the world on that magnificent debut recording (The Crossing). Another excellent CD from a remarkable musician." |
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Classical Guitar, UK |
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"Bristling textures and compact melodic space...this altogether agreeable session seems utterly characteristic of one of the true adventurers in post-war American music." |
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St. Louis Post Dispatch |
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"May it bring the fans of Garcia's ethereal side to a new artist who merits a listen, a long listen, while sitting in a warm tropical breeze with nowhere to go." |
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Option |
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"The sonic quality of this recording is a star in it's own right." |
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Audio |
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"A poignant document of one of Garcia's last recorded side projects." |
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Jazz Times |
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"Mishra's style merges nicely with Garcia's on their tracks together." |
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Jazziz |
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"Mysterious, heavenly, and gorgeously mellow...a delicious project well worth picking up." |
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Duprees Diamond News |
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"An exceptional acoustic guitarist equally at home in an Eastern or Western setting." |
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Maui News |
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"A great record...an absolute must have..." |
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University Reporter |
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"A potent record that makes as good a send off as anybody's all star tribute." |
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Sing Out |
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"Completely captivating." |
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Raleigh News and Observer |
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"A sprawling display of well-crafted melodies...warm the ears and massage the musical membrane." |
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Omaha Sunday World Herald |
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"Mishra's cross-cultural blending of guitars, tabla and samples of stucture and improvisation is what really recommends this." |
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Oregonian |
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"A full-tilt East - West extravaganza featuring sampled Indian prayer chants and hypnotic modal interplay between the two guitarists." |
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Oakland Tribune |
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"An absorbing fusion of East and West." |
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New Age Journal |
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"Mishra's sometimes MIDIed acoustic picking is lighter and more precise...complemented nicely by Garcia's unmistakable fluid playing." |
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Dirty Linen |
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"We hear guitar playing of two different styles. Mishra's sophisticated fingerwork and flawless technique on his acoustic work with Garcia's equally faultless work within the Blues idiom. His playing is rough hewn and bluesy, straight from the heart with howling long, blue notes and heaps of soul. Instrumental music of rare beauty." |
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World Music, London |
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"A piece de resistance." |
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The Statesman, Calcutta. India |
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"Intriguing and comely raga influenced tracks. Fade to blue: pungent music by which to contemplate the moon." |
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India Today |
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"Nonconformist, unpretentious world music." |
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Outlook, India |
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"The total diversity of the sound hooks in the listener." |
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The Week, India |
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Port Djema (PolyGram-Philips, Catalog number 534919 2 , AkarMusic/ASCAP, 1996) |
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Best Original Score |
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Hamptons International Film Festival 1997 |
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Best Director |
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Berlin Film Festival 1997 |
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"A special nod for Sanjay Mishra's hauntingly beautiful score." |
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Variety |
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[Mishra's score] "brings the film to life and lends it an eerie otherworldliness." |
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Filmmaker |
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US Reviews for the film December 1998 to January 1999 |
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"Lovely, artful cinematography and a heart of gold." |
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The New York Times |
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"Perfectly captures the creeping dread of alienation in this spare haunting French import." |
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Marie Claire |
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"Superbly controlled drama which builds a spellbinding atmosphere of mystery." |
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The Christian Science Monitor |
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"That rare example of intelligent and skeptical narrative art that compassionately contemplates a chaotic world." |
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The New York Observer |
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"Revelatory European cinema like this is rare these days. It's almost a shock to see something so powerful." |
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