World Music Network Radio presents live studio sessions by artists on the Riverboat Records label. Presented by Martin Sinnock and totallyradio.com, on-demand specialist music radio.

Pandit (master) Debashish Bhattacharya is one of the world’s most remarkable slide guitarists and his latest album 3: Calcutta Slide-Guitar represents the culmination of a lifetime of intensive study, performance and innovation. He appears here in session and interview with Martin Sinnock.

All the guitars heard are unique instruments designed by Debashish himself, a Trinity of Guitars – Chaturangui, Gandharvi and Anandi – representing three generations of instruments, while also continuing a thousand-year tradition of music. Debashish Bhattacharya dazzles the listener with hypnotic patterns and stunning music shaped from Debashish’s original three-finger picking technique.

Born into a musical family on 12 January 1963, in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, Debashish Bhattacharya learnt to sing before he could talk. At the age of 3, he started playing the Hawaiian lap steel guitar, giving his first major concert on All India Radio at 4. The first slide guitarist to receive the President of India Award in 1984 he was made a Pandit (master) at 40. Since then he has been established as one of the world’s most outstanding slide guitarists by tours of inspirational live concerts and bestselling albums, including the breathtaking collaboration with slide guitarist Bob Brozman, Mahima.

‘truly groundbreaking’ MOJO
‘beautiful and inspired’ Daily Telegraph

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Nuru Kane and his band Bayefall Gnawa in live session and conversation with Martin Sinnock with previews of songs from the new album Sigil on Riverboat Records - available to download from 24th April 2006 or mailorder now. For more information visit worldmusic.net.

Nuru Kane was born and raised in Medina, Dakar, and his distinctive take on Senegalese music explores the connections between the music of North and West Africa – a musical journey across the Sahara. The album Sigil captures Nuru’s range of influences, from his blues-led solo songs, reminiscent of Ali Farka Touré, through to the driving gnawa trance that forms the backbone of his pulsating live performances. Unhindered, unrestricted and full of musical surprises, Sigil’s instrumentation is primarily acoustic, but the results are electric.

‘At this year’s Festival in the Desert there was a performance by Senegalese singer Nuru Kane… several people mentioned this as one of the festival’s highlights… Melding the musical traditions of two Sufi brotherhoods, Kane is a tall and commanding presence. With his guimbri (large Gnawa lute), he creates a taut, spare and mesmerising web of music.’ (Songlines).

Nuru Kane and the Bayefall Gnawa line up for the show is:

Nuru Kane: guimbri, acoustic, guitar, ankle bells, vox
Thierry Fournel: acoustic guitar, oud, vox
Kader Tab: Arabic vox, hand percussion, various drums
Kadialy Kouyate: Kora
Jared: calabasse, vox

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