1. Aanandam (Joy)
2. Prema Chakor (Lover’s Eyes)
3. Nata Raaj (Dance Of Shiva)
4. Usha (First Rays)
5. Prabha (Early Bright)
6. Maha Shakti (Beyond The Sun)
Total time: 1.2 hours
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3: Calcutta Slide-Guitar
Debashish Bhattacharya
Riverboat Records/World Music Network
The “3” in the title refers to the Trinity of Guitars – the 24-string Chaturangui, the 14-string Gandharvi and the four-string Anandi – that Bhattacharya developed to free him of the restrictions of the lap steel used for Indian classical slide guitar.
“3” also stands for the album’s three sections: a prelude played on the Anandi; a two-part evening raga played on the Gandharvi; and a three-part morning raga played on the Chaturangui.
This is undoubtedly some of the most beautiful instrumental acoustic guitar music ever heard – slide, Indian or otherwise. Accompanied by his younger siblings on tabla and tambura, the original compositions are at times slow and peaceful, elsewhere mindnumbingly fast, thanks in part to a three-finger picking method Bhattacharya devised.
Indian music played on nontraditional instruments developed out of love for a Hawaiian style that emulates the human voice. That sums it up nicely.
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