Brilliant album from the Hindustani slide guitar master. Click on Read About for the full album notes written by Paul Fisher. 'Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey is a musical journey through the centuries of guitar playing in India. Using three unique guitars that BBC award winner Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya designed himself, each beautiful raga explores influences ranging from Gypsy to Sufi with deep sensitivity and free-flowing movement between past and present, tradition and innovation.'
1. Sufi Bhakti (Dawn Medley on Anandi)
2. Amrit Anand. (Bhairavi alaap on Chaturangui)
3. Nivedan- (Bhairavi thumri)
4. Ganga Ghat- (Charukesi alaap)
5. Gypsy Anandi (Mishra Pahari and Mishra Maand)
6. Rasika (Pilu-vilambit)
7. Renaissance (Pilu-drut with jhala)
8. Kolkata to Kanyakumari- (Kalavati-alaap in Gandharvi)
9. Maya- (Kalavati Madhya lay in Gandharvi)
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