The Way of Love

The Way of Love is a collaborative track from the 1996 album Tabula Rasā. Béla Fleck, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Jie-Bing Chen composed and performed the piece as the seventh track on the release. The recording spans 4 minutes and 15 seconds.

Béla Fleck contributed banjo, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt played the Mohan veena and Jie-Bing Chen performed on the erhu. Water Lily Acoustics released the album on CD. The label specialized in acoustic and world music recordings during the 1990s.

Tabula Rasā emerged from a cross-cultural exchange between American bluegrass, Indian classical and Chinese traditional music. The album featured improvisational interplay among the three primary artists. Fleck, Bhatt and Chen had previously collaborated in live performances before entering the studio for this project.

The tracklist of Tabula Rasā included nine original compositions. The Way of Love stood out for its fusion of the Mohan veena’s slide technique, the erhu’s bowed textures and the banjo’s percussive plucking. The album’s production emphasized natural acoustics with minimal post-processing.

Critical reception of Tabula Rasā noted its experimental blend of traditions. The release date of 1996 placed it within a period of growing interest in global fusion projects. No commercial chart positions or sales figures are documented in available sources.

Further details about the recording sessions, specific compositional methods or live performances of The Way of Love remain unverified in public records. The album remains in print through Water Lily Acoustics’ catalog.