Lost Songs of the Silk Road

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[11]
MusicHound World: The Essential Album Guide	[8]

The New York Times stated: "Each piece is a long three-way improvisation based on simple melodies that the players push back and forth, and the reedy scrape of Kayhan Kalhor's bowed fiddle creeps out stealthily like a human voice, a rough and ancient sound against the metallic ringing of the sitar."^[12] Billboard deemed the album a "soulful, pioneering hybrid."^[13]

The Oregonian praised the "slow, dreamlike improvisations marked by elegant thematic development and marvelous subtlety and detail."^[14] Ethnomusicology concluded that "the melodic expression on this CD hovers somewhere between dastgah and rag, but Shujaat's forceful improvisations tend to pull the whole closer to Indian styles and structures."^[15]

AllMusic called the album "a fascinating meeting of Persian and Indian musical and cultural influences."^[10]