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- Date Released: April 8, 2008
- Genre: International
- Style: India
- Label: Riverboat Records / IODA
The extraordinary note-bending artistry of a Kolkata-based maestro.
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We Say...
The first new material by this Kolkata-based maestro since Calcutta Slide-Guitar, Vol. 3 continues to explore the timbres of the many Indian slide guitars he has invented. He refers to his favorite three — the 22-stringed Chaturangi, the 14-stinged Ghandarvi and the tiny ukulele-like Anandi — as his "trinity of guitars." The pieces here are shorter than on the previous album, although still based on traditional ragas. Even so, the opening “Sufi Bhakti” has an outward-looking fusion feel, as does “Gypsy Anandi,” a lightly skipping, festive piece incorporating Hawaiian and Afro-Andalucian flavours.
Among the other upbeat pieces, “Aviskaar” features a thrillingly muscular crescendo powered by his brother Subhasis on tabla. But it’s the calmer, more meditative pieces such as “Ganga Kinare,” “Rasika” and the wonderfully twangy “Kolkata to Kanyakumari” that really reveal Bhattacharya’s extraordinary note-bending artistry at its best, as he teases out exquisite, metallic tendrils of sound against atmospherically droning tamboura. -
They Say...
Every so often albums like this come along, serving as timely reminders that it's the musicians, not the instruments, that make different styles of music. Debashish Bhattacharya has long been an iconoclast and innovator, using not only slide guitar in his unique take on Indian music, but also here a slide ukulele (you can hear it on "Sufi Bhakti," which crosses Indian and Sufi music in a thrilling and seamless manner). That he's a master of his art is a given by now, but his genius isn't just in technique, but also in feel. He's as much at home on "Rasika," which conjures up Bengali music as he is with a raga on "Maya." Perhaps the greatest triumph here, however, is "Gypsy Anandi," where you can hear Hawaii -- the home of slide guitar -- along with Andalusia and even Gypsy overtones, apt since they originated in Rajasthan. The Indian classical tradition suffuses this disc, both Hindustani and Carnatic (the two come together on "Kolkata to Kanyakumari"). The playing throughout bathes you in warmth, lulling and delicious, quite spare but never seeming empty. It's a testament to Bhattacharya's art that he brings such brilliance to bear.
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| 01. |  |
Sufi Bhakti |
7:12 |
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| 02. | |
Amrit Anand |
3:06 |
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| 03. | |
Nivedan |
7:32 |
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| 04. | |
Ganga Kinare |
4:57 |
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| 05. | |
Gypsy Anandi |
6:27 |
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| 06. | |
Rasika |
8:22 |
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| 07. | |
Aviskaar |
8:32 |
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| 08. | |
Kolkata to Kanyakumari |
8:48 |
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| 09. | |
Maya |
7:04 |
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09 Total Tracks, 62:00 Total Length
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Credits
- Debashish Bhattacharya - Arranger // Debashish Bhattacharya - Arranger // Debashish Bhattacharya - Art Direction // Debashish Bhattacharya - Art Direction // Brad Haynes - Design Coordinator // Marisa Lassman - Design Coordinator
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