SONGLINES MAGAZINE

   UK May & June 2005

  (World Music Top 10 Chart for the Month of May and June 2005)

"Nata Raaj' ( Excerpt 5.47 )

A must for anyone with a passion for Indian music.

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 rich 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..