Debashish Bhattacharya - O Shakuntala 2009

Debashish Bhattacharya - O Shakuntala!

1. Megha Re
2. Shringar
3. Samarpan
4. Baarish!
5. Milaap
6. Chahat
7. Priyatameshu
8. Sparsh
9. Amantran
10. O Shakuntala!

Slide Guitar – Debashish Bhattacharya
Mridangam – Charu Hariharan
Pakhawaj – Chitrangana Agle Reshwal
Tabla, Vocals – Subhasis Bhattacharjee (Bhattacharya)

With a Grammy nomination and BBC World Music Award under his belt, Indian slide guitarist Pandit (master) Debashish Bhattacharya’s remarkable virtuosity is winning international critical acclaim. O Shakuntala! is a sublime interpretation of the immortal Indian masterpiece of eternal love and features the chaturangui, the first slide guitar designed and developed by Debashish himself. A musical adventure fusing two great Indian musical traditions – Karnatic music from the south and Hindustani music from the north – it celebrates love in all its many wonderful rasas (emotions).

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Debashish Bhattacharya is one of the world’s most extraordinary and innovative slide guitarists. Since the 1990s he’s fused influences from all over India as well as the west, creating a style which is both hypnotic and fiery. Bhattacharya continues to push the envelope: it would not be hyperbole to mention him alongside Ravi Shankar. This new cd follows the arc of an ancient Sanskrit love epic, Bhattacharya playing three self-designed slide guitars and accompanied by three percussionists, Chitrangana Agle Reshwal and Charu Hariharan as well as his brother Subhasis. A blend of trancelike Hindustani sounds, southern ragas and an incisive, western-influenced melodicism, Bhattacharya’s guitars ring and reverberate, often in the style of a sitar. As fast a player as he can be, most of the songs here are warmly contemplative, often plaintive