Lost Songs of the Silk Road is the debut album by Ghazal, a trio made up of Iranian and Indian musicians.

[9] 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.

"[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.