World Raga:  An Interview with Chaturangui master Debashish Bhattacharya
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World Raga: An Interview with Chaturangui master Debashish Bhattacharya

2011-05-01
BBC award winner and Grammy nominee Debashish Bhattacharya descends from a long line of musical talent. This master of world raga is a seventh-generation musician. "We Bhattacharyas, we learn music from sitting in our mother's womb," he says. In this wide-ranging interview with Michael Switow, Bhattacharya demonstrates the chaturangui -- a 22-string slide guitar, an instrument that he invented and popularised -- and talks about the music of Rabindranath Tagore. We also meet Bhattacharya's 14-year old daughter, Sukanya, who has an angelic voice and...
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