It is time for another #sitarsaturday this time with a theme of fusion.
Here is Ashwin Batish jamming with numerous bandmembers. They are kind of fusing lots of different styles together in this performance. It kind of reminds me a bit of some prog rock bands who go into an experimental phase.
Here is Anoushka Shankar playing sitar with an entire orchestra that has some handpan added to it. Quite an interesting mix where the sitar can remain the lead. I see they are all using sheet music so this all had to be composed beforehand. You can scroll to any point of the video to get all kinds of different styles. For these long performances I like to put them on in the background while I code or troubleshoot something.
Speaking of music for coding, here is Ameya Kulkarni with an interesting mix of Tabla, some sitar samples and some synths. I am amazed at how well he mic'd the tablas especially the bass tabla. The sitar sample is interesting too how he got the bends with the touchstrip on the midi keyboard.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)