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Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya: Calcutta Slide-Guitar - Chaturangui, Gandharvi, Anandi
Subhasis Bhattacharjee: tabla
Sutapa Bhattacharya: tambura

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Special edition re-release of the CD 'Calcutta Slide Guitar 3' with new bonus DVD featuring a performance of the album filmed in Calcutta.

Pandit (master) Debashish Bhattacharya is one of the world’s 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 Debashish’s original three-finger picking technique.

Born into a musical family on 12 January 1963, in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, Debashish Bhattacharya learnt to sing before he could talk. At the age of 3, he started playing the Hawaiian lap steel guitar, giving his first major concert on All India Radio at 4. The first slide guitarist to receive the President of India Award in 1984 he was made a Pandit (master) at 40. Since then he has been established as one of the world’s most outstanding slide guitarists by tours of inspirational live concerts and bestselling albums, including the breathtaking collaboration with slide guitarist Bob Brozman, Mahima (‘truly groundbreaking’ MOJO ‘beautiful and inspired’ Daily Telegraph).

A designer, as well as a virtuoso, Debashish has designed nineteen slide guitars since he began experimenting in his twenties, and the three guitars heard on this album are all his individual designs. ‘Aanandam’ (‘Joy’) opens the album with Debashish performing on ‘Anandi’, a slide ukulele that he designed which produces a surprisingly direct, clear tone. Raga Tilak Kamod is an evening raga played on.......
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Najnowsza płyta ‘Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide-guitar Odyssey’ otrzymała nominację do nagrody GRAMMY w kategorii Best Traditional World Music Album at the 51st Grammy Awards.
Nominacja potwierdza tylko wyjątkową pozycję, jaką ten wirtuoz slide guitar, Debashish Bhattacharya zajmuje od lat.
Jego wydawca Riverboat Records postanowił wznowić płytę z 2007 roku ‘3: Calcutta Slide-Guitar’ w specjalnej, limitowanej edycji. Do właściwej płyty dołożono bonusowy krążek DVD Video, na którym zarejestrowano koncert Debashisha Bhattacharya z Kalkuty w 2007 roku.
Warto dodać, że płyta ‘3: Calcutta Slide-Guitar’ otrzymała główną nagrodę w corocznym rankingu BBC Radio w kategorii Best Album - World Music in the Asia & Pacific.

Editor's info:
Special edition re-release of the CD 'Calcutta Slide Guitar 3' with new bonus DVD featuring a performance of the album filmed in Calcutta.

Pandit (master) Debashish Bhattacharya is one of the world’s 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 Debashish’s original three-finger picking technique.

Born into a musical family on 12 January 1963, in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, Debashish Bhattacharya learnt to sing before he could talk. At the age of 3, he started playing the Hawaiian lap steel guitar, giving his first major concert on All India Radio at 4. The first slide guitarist to receive the President of India Award in 1984 he was made a Pandit (master) at 40.......
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