Tabula Rasā

Tabula Rasā
Studio album by Béla Fleck, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Jie-Bing Chen
Released	July 2, 1996
Genre	World music
Length	53:53
Label	Water Lily Acoustics
Producer	Kavichandran Alexander, Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck chronology
Tales from the Acoustic Planet (1995)Tales from the Acoustic Planet1995 Tabula Rasā (1996) The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2 (1999)The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 21999

Tabula Rasā is a collaborative album by American banjoist Béla Fleck together with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (playing traditional Indian slide guitar "Mohan veena") and Jie-Bing Chen, who plays the traditional Chinese two-string fiddle "Erhu". The unusual combination of Fleck's banjo together with these traditional instruments creates a unique sound on this album, which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album at the 39th Grammy Awards.^[1]

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Track listing

1. "Carukesi" (Vishwa Mohan Bhatt) – 6:42
2. "Emperor's Mare" (Traditional) – 1:39
3. "Radha Krsna Lila" (Ronu Majumdar) – 6:42
4. "John Hardy" (Carter, Ledbetter) – 2:29
5. "Tabula Rasā" (Béla Fleck) – 3:06
6. "Geocentricity" (Fleck) – 6:07
7. "The Way of Love" (Fleck) – 4:15
8. "Earl in Shanghai" (Fleck) – 4:59
9. "Water Gardens" (Traditional) – 4:36
10. "The Jade Princess" (Fleck) – 2:57
11. "The Dancing Girl" (Bhatt) – 10:20

Personnel

• Béla Fleck - banjo
• Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - Mohan veena
• Jie-Bing Chen - Erhu
• Ronu Majumdar - Bansuri
• Sangeeta Shankar - violin
• Poovalur Sriji (Srinivasan) - Mridangam

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