https://rvanews.com All the news, none of that gross newsprint feel Tue, 10 Nov 2020 02:23:10 +0000 en-US https://rvanews.com/z_legacy/folk-festival/2009/bios/debashish-bhattacharya/20728?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS+Readership Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:00:14 +0000 Valerie Catrow http://rvanews.com/?p=20728 <p style = "text-align:center"></p><h2>Listen</h2><p>[audio:http://rvanews.net/folk_festival/2009/artists/GypsyAnandi.mp3|artists=Debashish Bhattacharya|titles=Gypsy Anandi from Calcutta Chronicles]</p><h2>From The Brothers Burton</h2><p>Scott says: One of my favorite concepts in modern music is bringing cultural tradition to an instrument outside of that tradition. Here we have Indian slide guitar. Amazing, too!</p><p>Taylor says: Believe it or not, Hindustani music lends itself far too perfectly to slide guitar, and Debashish Bhattacharya is a true master at displaying this. True to tradition, but also quite innovative in his use of melodic and harmonic structures within Hindustani music. Not to be missed.</p><h2>Professional Bio</h2><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r_mRktR-68">Debashish Bhattacharya</a> comes to the festival all the way from Calcutta, India. Given the honorific title of pandit (master) in his home country, this virtuoso and innovator of Indian slide guitar playing performs deeply meditative ragas as well as lighting-fast, intricate slide work on his hand crafted 22-stringed guitars.</p><p><br />Ho there, reader of RSS feeds! Do you ever want to support RVANews in a real and tangible way? Or at least pay a small penance for reading ad-free content? If so, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/rvanews">support us on Patreon for a couple bucks a month</a>!</p>