Music By Ry Cooder

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Ostensibly a collection of Cooder's film music, the two-CD Music by Ry Cooder delivers the cinematic quality of a good soundtrack album but packs the kind of ferocious jams--featuring crack players such as John Hiatt, Jim Keltner, David Lindley, and Jim Dickinson--that you'll never hear on a John Williams score. Cooder's melancholy acoustic and electric-slide moans are a constant, though the material shifts from the plaintive piano tune "I Like Your Eyes" (from Johnny Handsome) to the border-town ballad "Across the Borderline" (featuring Freddy Fender) to the grit-and-spit stomp of "Bomber Bash" (from Streets of Fire). From cowboy serenades to contemporary exotica, from Paris, Texas to Alamo Bay, Cooder's soundtrack legacy is a strangely unified cross section of an American master's finest and most varied work. --James Rotondi

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Music By Ry Cooder

Average customer rating: As Good As It Gets Forget the Stylistic Analysis... It's Awesome. Do your ears a favor! Get this one! In the true spirit of confluence Cooder aint up to par...

A Meeting by the River Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt Manufacturer: Water Lily Acoustics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Delta Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Modern Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Slide Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Contemporary Blues | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Talking Timbuktu Mambo Sinuendo Paradise and Lunch Tabula Rasa Bourbon & Rosewater ASIN: B000005L9Z Release Date: 1993-02-23

Tracks:

1. A Meeting By The River
2. Longing
3. Ganges Delta Blues
4. Isa Lei

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Ry Cooder has long had an interest in other people's music, from the blues and gospel of black America through classic jazz and the music of Cuba. Even by this standard, his meeting with Mohan Vishwa Bhatt is certainly a departure. He is neither a serious student of Indian music nor in any way a master of its intricacies. Yet on his improvised session (this album was recorded without rehearsal in one evening), he and Bhatt truly collided musically and created moments worthy of the world-music Grammy they received for it. Bhatt is an iconoclastic character himself. He plays a modified box he calls the mohan vina that is a hybrid of a classical Indian instrument and slide guitar. He is long trained in the arduous classical style, yet his work has always demanded a lot of freedom. His duets here with Cooder are completely unique, liberating both artists from the usual constraints and creating a new musical style that is unlikely to be repeated or imitated. --Louis Gibson

Customer Reviews:

As Good As It Gets.......2007-07-17

If I had to choose one CD to take with me on a desert island this would be it. Sublime!

Forget the Stylistic Analysis... It's Awesome........2006-11-18

God help me, I just keep listening to this. Gentle... Lyrical... Rhythmic... Gives you that feeling you get when exposed to any paradigm of the form: "Yeah, so _this_ is what good music is! I forgot!"

Chillingly good.

Do your ears a favor! Get this one! .......2005-12-28

if you;re anyway involved with slide guitar playing, then get this one. cos it's one of the most outstanding slide-blues-fusion albums ever made. even if you have never heard indian music, it'll still grown on you, pretty soon. VM Bhatt is a master at his music & his instrument. And Ry Cooder is no less. i love both these guys' playing. But be warned that this is a VM Bhatt album featuring Ry cooder and not the otherway round. So apart from the fact that Ry's playing is always minimalistic, there's pretty little of Ry's sound on this album. But it still manages to keep me riveted for some reason. but his blues licks are so well timed and phrased, there's no words to describe what he does. and the chords he uses to accompany VM Bhatts passages, are so colorful. and for the real hardcore blues fans theres atleast one tune ' ganges delta blues' . man it's just awesome, with all the precussion and stuff. it amazing. i got more than i expected.

In the true spirit of confluence.......2004-11-02

The album truly encompasses the spirit of the confluence, of different worlds, different music, different thoughts, united in harmony, in the cool shade of the banks of the ganges.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is as effortlessly beautiful as ever. The flowing quality of his music, with delightful legatos splashes as his solos meet the solid boulders and branches of Ry Cooder's slide guitar. If anything I feel Ry Cooder was too quiet on this album, though, the blues/jazz influence was underplayed a little.

The title piece is one of my favourites, though Isa Lie is equally wonderful.

Magical music from another place and time.

Cooder aint up to par..........2004-11-01

Its a good cd, if you like the music. It may not be what you are used to. Listen to the audio clips. Nice slide guitar playing. Personally, i think Ry Cooder gets killed on this one, the blues licks just seem a little crude and basic compared to V.M. Bhatts licks...granted, he's more used to the style of music.

Average customer rating: Movie music that's not. Captures The Mood If you're a Ry Cooder Fan, and you like Instrumental Music...... The Good Stuff Is Good Stuff!! A talent too subtle for some

Music by Ry Cooder Ry Cooder Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Modern Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Roots Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Paris, Texas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Ry Cooder Boomer's Story Chicken Skin Music Into the Purple Valley ASIN: B000002N0X Release Date: 1995-07-11

Tracks:

1. Paris, Texas
2. Theme From Southern Comfort
3. Theme From Alamo Bay
4. Across The Borderline
5. Highway 23
6. Bomber Bash
7. Greenhouse
8. Nice Bike
9. I Like Your Eyes
10. Main Theme
11. See You In Hell, Blind Boy
12. Feelin' Bad Blues
13. Swamp Walk
14. Angola
15. Viola Lee Blues
16. The Long Riders
17. Archie's Funeral (Hold To God's Unchanging Hand)
18. Jesse James

Tracks:

1. King Of The Street
2. Sunny's Tune
3. No Quiero
4. Cruising With Rafe
5. Klan Meeting
6. I Can't Walk This Time/The Prestige
7. East St. Louis
8. Goose and Lucky
9. Goyakla Is Coming
10. Canoes Upstream
11. Cancion Mixteca
12. Maria
13. Bound For Canaan (Sieber and Davis)
14. Bound For Canaan (The 6th Calvary)
15. Train To Florida
16. Houston In Two Seconds

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Ostensibly a collection of Cooder's film music, the two-CD Music by Ry Cooder delivers the cinematic quality of a good soundtrack album but packs the kind of ferocious jams--featuring crack players such as John Hiatt, Jim Keltner, David Lindley, and Jim Dickinson--that you'll never hear on a John Williams score. Cooder's melancholy acoustic and electric-slide moans are a constant, though the material shifts from the plaintive piano tune "I Like Your Eyes" (from Johnny Handsome) to the border-town ballad "Across the Borderline" (featuring Freddy Fender) to the grit-and-spit stomp of "Bomber Bash" (from Streets of Fire). From cowboy serenades to contemporary exotica, from Paris, Texas to Alamo Bay, Cooder's soundtrack legacy is a strangely unified cross section of an American master's finest and most varied work. --James Rotondi

Customer Reviews:

Movie music that's not........2006-11-10

Great! A little of everything showing Ry Cooder's range. If you like slide guitar and delta blues, you'll love it.

Captures The Mood.......2006-10-17

Ry Cooder has always been one of the most understated players I listen to; He hides in layers, almost demanding your complete attention to fully hear and understand each musical statement; Some of his best material has always been from the movies; 'Southern Comfort', 'Johnny Handsome', and 'The Long Riders' have some of his best work(sadly this CD was released before 'Last Man Standing', which I consider some of his rawest work to date...). Still, while not every track here is a great one, this is a nice CD to throw on and go about your day, pausing every once in awhile for those moments that will catch your ear...and there are plenty of them. Lots of different styles of music, mostly instrumental. Nice production; Excellent headphone experience; A really good retrospective of an excellent musician.

If you're a Ry Cooder Fan, and you like Instrumental Music.............2005-08-18

For those of you that are fans of 'Ry Cooders' work, collecting his music is something of a daunting proposition. With a collection of regular Studio albums totalling some 25+ albums (with 2005 utterly sublime "Chavez Ravine", being the most recent). If you are (like I am) a relatively newbie to his music, picking which albums to start with is an slightly tricky option.

For someone that has handled a multitude of genres: Rock, Blues-Rock, Ethnic Fusion, Slide Guitar Blues, Cuban, Film Music, Roots Rock, Latin, Worldbeat, & Blues, finding an album that encapsulates all his influences is going to be a compilers nightmare. Unfortunately...this isn't it!!, but before you head off to view the reviews for: "Why Don't You Try Me Tonight?: The Best of Ry Cooder" (Tremendous, overall 1 Cd Summary of his work), or "River Rescue: The Very Best of Ry Cooder", as compilations of his work. You should be really give this reasonably expensive 2-Cd compilation, your attention. Why??....well, this isn't as mentioned before, an 'Overall Summary' of his work, and instead is a compilation of the great many compositions for film soundtracks, that he has either composed or performed over the years.

This is predominately an album that although focusing on soundtracks, shows an incredible level of diversity and proficiency on his chosen instrument....(The Guitar), and seeing as Ry is one of the most gifted guitar Multi-instrumentalists of his generation, his excellence of his many uses of guitar are perfectly captured here. Although a lot of the work here, showcases his unprecedented work with the 'Slide Guitar', and manages to be some of the most organically expressive and Lush sophisticated guitar work, committed to CD.

The various arrangements here, are an incredibly diverse bunch. Moving from, stark, acoustic slide pieces that are self-consciously introspection in tone, to both loose and sophisticated thoughtful tracks, powerful Electric guitar for the more traditional numbers, fragile and laid-back Cuban numbers, intimate and elegant Rhythm & Blues, Romantic and mellow Latin-tinged Jazz guitar, upbeat surf guitar melodies that float over altering rhythms, southern-styled U.S. roots numbers, mixed with bittersweet & gloomy country blues, or dusty North American folk songs that touch upon the more rustic side and earthy side of his playing. Some tracks even touch upon a uniquely modest sounding country & Western-tinged feel, and Cooders excellence in merging tracks that have a distinctly Mariachi feel, work across a magnificent cross-breeding of genres that truly highlight that the man is arguably deserving to be classed amongst some of the worlds greatest guitarist.

But what impresses most is the sense of mood and atmosphere that Ry is so superbly able to convey in what largely consists of the majority of the work here, which is Instrumental. (Although several tracks do feature vocals, there are more performed as vocal accompaniments to the instrumentals, rather than tracks with Lyrics, searching for instruments). And such is the proficiency of Ry performances, that it isn't hard to imagine what sort of film these quite stunning instrumentals are likely to be soundtracking. Although personally I didn't recognise any of the soundtracks on this two CD from any particular film, you get the impression that even if the film itself, might have been mediocre, the accompanying soundtrack music is tremendous.

Although this is a absolutely exceptional compilation and amongst some of Ry's greatest works, if you are new to the wonderful world of Ry Cooder, then I would have to suggest that unless you are a huge fan of instrumental tracks (which admittedly, I am...) you should first get yourself acquainted with his more largely recognised works/Studio albums, even if it's just a studio album or two (I very strongly suggest): "Into The Purple Valley", "Paradise and Lunch", "The Long Riders", "A Meeting by the River", "Chavez Ravine"....or a compilation, to bring yourself up to speed with the great mans work, as It leads perfectly into this album, which is a beautifully compiled work of his virtuosity with the guitar. And for those that already are familiar with the great mans work, (or merely want an album of intricately performed, and expressive guitar music), should add this to their Cooder collections immediately. I have around 5 Ry Cooder albums (and growing), and this is arguably one of the albums that has the most plays, due to the sheer volume of material contained, the accessibility of the tracks and more importantly an album that doesn't necessarily require you to be in a particular mood to enjoy. (I use this album to occasionally Chill-out to, have as background music when I'm working, or indeed just fancy listening to something different), a absolute 'Must have' if your a fan of Ry Cooders work.

The Good Stuff Is Good Stuff!!.......2005-07-31

I enjoy the movie 'Southern Comfort' which had it's soundtrack performed by Ry Cooder. This is the only CD (I believe) that features the songs from that film. This is a collection that features a diverse selection of Ry Cooder's music from a number of films. Some of it is very good. The track 'Theme From Southern Comfort' is very haunting especialy if you turn all the lights out and listen to it in darkness. I also really like the track 'Klan Meeting' from the film The Alamo, however I've never seen the film itself. Another film I do have is 'The Long Riders' which also featured Ry Cooder in the soundtrack. Some of these tracks are included here and are good listening.

A talent too subtle for some.......2005-04-07

This album is, by and large, an array of tracks that are composed to create a space within which something else can happen. That's what music in films, on the whole, has to do. Otherwise you end up with a musical. With one or two exceptions, these tracks cover the range of work Cooder has been producing that, carefully composed and arranged, support the films they appear in. Try listening it it while the sunset turns to dusk.

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Indian Delta Vishwa Mohan Bhatt , and Sandeep Das Manufacturer: Sense World Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD India | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music General | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Samadhi Gathering Rain Clouds Mohan's Veena Debashish Bhattacharya Bihag/Desh ASIN: B00007BGZX Release Date: 2005-10-25

Tracks:

1. Raag Puriya Dhanashri (Alap)
2. Raag Shyam Kalyan (Tintaal Slow)
3. Raag Shyam Kalyan (Tintaal Fast)

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Trespass Original Motion Picture Score - Music By Ry Cooder Manufacturer: Sire/Warner Bros ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CCXG5W

Product Description

Trespass Original Motion Picture Score - Music By Ry Cooder // Ry Cooder guitars, Jim Keltner drums, percussion, Jon Hassell trumpet + 1 track with David Lindley 1. Video drive by 2. Trespass (Main title) 3. East St. Louis 4. Orgill Bros. 5. Goose and lucky 6. You think it's on now 7. Solid gold 8. Heroin 9. Totally boxed in 10. Give 'em cops 11. Lucy in the trunk 12. We're rich 13. King of the street 14. Party Lights

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The Rolling Stone Collection (Compilation) 1973-1977 Presented by Time Life Music Ry Cooder, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Elton John, James Taylor David Bowie , Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, Graham Parker, Ramones Bob Dylan , and Bonnie Rait, The Eagles, Wings Fleetwood Mac ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000RU788K

Product Description

16 tracks by great artists

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7. Pizza Deliverance (Dig) [Original recording remastered]
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9. Presto [Original recording remastered]
10. Prisoner in Disguise

Rap Music

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