Sitar Mania by Ashwin Batish

Sitar Mania is the title track of Ashwin Batish's raga rock fusion Sitar Power album #2. As with the other Sitar Power songs, this one is highly energetic and will make you want to dance! You can visit Ashwin's web site at www.sitarpower.com and review a huge collection of old articles, pics etc Ashwin Batish is an extraordinary sitarist and tabla player. He received training in the North Indian classical tradition from his father S.D. Batish and later created his own unique fusion of Indian classical sitar with pop, rock, jazz, calypso, funk... an example of a few hybrids he excels at. He is famous for such songs as the Bombay Boogie, Raga Rock, Raga Jazz, Casbah Shuffle and Sitar Mania. Ashwin is also very well know for being an educator. His series of instructional videos for the sitar, tabla, dilruba, dholak, vichitra veena, harmonium and tanpura that he has produced with his father Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish have become a very sought after commodity by the Indian music student. Ashwin gives private and group Indian music lessons at his Santa Cruz, California USA facility and is often called upon by various music festivals and universities to perform his sitar and be a guest lecturer for weekend workshops and seminars on Classical Indian music, raga jazz, ethnopop, and raga rock sitar fusion styles. Ashwin Batish's pioneering effort in worldbeat music called "Sitar Power" has earned him some critical reviews and great respect in the music community. The sitar is ageless in Ashwin's hands. It is souped up for amplification and effects! We hope you get to catch one of Ashwin's electric performances. His music is as dynamic as his stage presence. Visit his web site at ashwinbatishdotcom and check out media reviews and sound clips.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: January 31, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Author: ragmala

Length: 04:49
Rating: 4.54
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