Alone by the Ganges

From the Ashes is a collaborative studio album by violinist L. Subramaniam and guitarist Larry Coryell, released on March 9, 1999, under the label Water Lily Acoustics. The album adopts a fusion format that blends Indian classical music with jazz, featuring improvisational exchanges between Subramaniam’s Carnatic violin and Coryell’s electric and acoustic guitar work. The primary release format was CD.

The fourth track, Alone by the Ganges, runs for 12 minutes and 41 seconds. The composition showcases a raga-inspired framework with extended instrumental interplay, emphasizing melodic development and rhythmic synchronization. Subramaniam employs traditional Carnatic phrasing and ornamentation, while Coryell contributes jazz harmonic textures and dynamic soloing. The track exemplifies the album’s cross-genre experimentation, though specific recording details beyond the credited artists remain undocumented.

Water Lily Acoustics, known for its focus on high-fidelity recordings of world and ambient music, produced the album with an emphasis on natural acoustic capture. The label did not release additional variants or remastered editions of From the Ashes as of available records. Critical reception and commercial performance data for the album are not widely archived, but the collaboration marked a notable intersection of Indian classical and Western jazz traditions during the late 1990s.