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Article: Debashish Bhattacharya: 3: Calcutta Slide-Guitar.(Sound Recording Review)
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- September 22, 2005
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DEBASHISH BHATTACHARYA
3: Calcutta Slide-Guitar
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Like the many-armed fire-clad deities of Indian mythology, the country's wealth of musicians draw from innumerable resources in creating sacred music. While a youngster in a musical home Debashish Bhattacharya happened upon a Hawaiian steel guitar. Perhaps it was the karmic residue of past lives causing him to gravitate towards it, eventually forging a career by re-treating ragas with a Western penchant. Also studied in the sitar and classical vocal style gwalior, Bhattacharya would fully explore the subtle nuances of slide guitar with a 10-year guruship under Pandit Brij Bhushan ...