Ronu Majumdar: Hollow Bamboo
Something serene for Christmas Day. From the 2011 album, another Indian collaboration with Ry Cooder after the wonderful A Meeting By The River.
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From the delightful 1993 album A Meeting by the River, which won a Grammy.