"Calcutta Slide Guitar 3", reviews - SEATTLE WEEKLY MUSIC, USA 18 to 24th May 2005.

No Less adventurous but considerably more grounded is Pandit Debashish bhattacharya's Calcutta slide-Guitar (Riverboat). The former child prodigy's orientation is strictly classical ; when he plays a raga- say his own deliciously liquid " Prema Chakor" - he's not just cutting his THC with curry power, as per Valentine and Elder, he's adapting 1000 or so years o tradition to a somewhat western instrument. Why somewhat ? Therein lies Bhattacharya's sense of adventure, or part of it . 

The 40-ish maestro has devoted a good chunk of his life to designing guitars especially suited for Indian music - with resonating strings, hello necks whatnot. He's also intensely interested in porting indigenous vocal mannerisms over to his ax. Hence , the slide.