Debashish Bhattacharya - Calcutta Slide-Guitar (2005)
BAND/ARTIST: Debashish Bhattacharya
- Title: Calcutta Slide-Guitar
- Year Of Release: 2005
- Label: Riverboat Records/World Music Network
- Genre: Indian Classical, Hindustani
- Quality: FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 1:14:55
- Total Size: 345 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Pandit (master) Debashish Bhattacharya is one of the worlds most remarkable slide guitarists and this album represents the culmination of a lifetime of intensive study, performance and innovation. All the guitars heard on 3: Calcutta Slide-Guitar are unique instruments designed by Debashish himself, a Trinity of Guitars Chaturangui, Gandharvi and Anandi representing three generations of instruments, while also continuing a thousand-year tradition of music. 3: Calcutta Slide-Guitar dazzles the listener with hypnotic patterns and stunning music shaped from Debashishs original three-finger picking technique.
A hypnotic music with a thousand years of tradition behind it, Indian raga is typically played on sitar and tabla. Debashish Bhattacharya is most definitely a part of the raga tradition, but he continues it by playing three uniquely modified guitars: two are composites of a guitar with droning sitar strings and one is a sort of slide ukulele. While the instruments look strange, Bhattacharya (who has achieved Pandit, or master, status) gets that classic sitar sound out of them. Playing by using a unique three-finger picking style, the guitarist picks sitar-like bent notes, burrs, and leaps; he also gets a myriad of tones and accents with his slide (which he occasionally also uses to add a subtle delta blues flavor). He's often joined by his brother Subhasis on tabla, and the dialogue between them is telepathic. Definitely one of the more unusual traditional albums to come out of India, this features a musician finding his own path within the tradition with consummate musicianship and an innovative (third) eye toward the future. --Tad Hendrickson
1.01 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Aanandam (6:29)
1.02 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Prema Chakor (9:21)
1.03 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Nata Raaj (13:42)
1.04 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Usha (11:47)
1.05 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Prabha (15:32)
1.06 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Maha Shakti (18:05)
A hypnotic music with a thousand years of tradition behind it, Indian raga is typically played on sitar and tabla. Debashish Bhattacharya is most definitely a part of the raga tradition, but he continues it by playing three uniquely modified guitars: two are composites of a guitar with droning sitar strings and one is a sort of slide ukulele. While the instruments look strange, Bhattacharya (who has achieved Pandit, or master, status) gets that classic sitar sound out of them. Playing by using a unique three-finger picking style, the guitarist picks sitar-like bent notes, burrs, and leaps; he also gets a myriad of tones and accents with his slide (which he occasionally also uses to add a subtle delta blues flavor). He's often joined by his brother Subhasis on tabla, and the dialogue between them is telepathic. Definitely one of the more unusual traditional albums to come out of India, this features a musician finding his own path within the tradition with consummate musicianship and an innovative (third) eye toward the future. --Tad Hendrickson
1.01 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Aanandam (6:29)
1.02 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Prema Chakor (9:21)
1.03 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Nata Raaj (13:42)
1.04 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Usha (11:47)
1.05 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Prabha (15:32)
1.06 - Debashish Bhattacharya - Maha Shakti (18:05)
World | Indian / भारतीय संगीत | FLAC / APE
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