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Orange Sunshine

Orange Sunshine are catching the very soul of the motor-blues garage-punk and acid proto-hardrock era of the late '60's and the early 70's. With band members derived from several Dutch '80's and '90's garage-, doom-, acid-, surf-, noise-, punk- and hard-rock bands (such as Top Gear, Panty Boy, Twin Earth, the White Trash Minstrels and Sunwheel from the metro area of The Hague/Den Haag and Cromlech from Arnhem, check out www.motorwolf.com or www.godspill.

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Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar (अनुष्का शंकर), b. June 9, 1981, is a sitar player and composer from India. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Shankar. She began playing sitar under her fathers guidance at the age of nine and blossomed into a wonderful musician. She is becoming increasingly known for not only her recital work but for her own classical Indian compositions. When Anoushka was eight years old, her father began training her in the sitar. She gave a public performance at the age of thirteen; since then she has become a world famous sitar artist.

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Purbayan Chatterjee

Purbayan Chatterjee gave his first sensational performance at the age of 5 at the India Festival in Basel in 1982. He is accepted as the most gifted torch?bearer of the Senia?Maihar Gharana (school) of Baba Alauddin Khan and has become a powerful force in the Indian Classical Music scenario. At the very age of 3, he surprised his family and friends with his extraordinary capacity of annotating every single song that he heard at that tender age.

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Shujaat Khan

Shujaat Husain Khan (born 14th August, 1960) is a noted Indian musician and sitar player belonging to the Imdadkhani gharana. He has over 60 albums to his credit besides a Grammy nomination. He has also been acclaimed for his vocals, and has performed in the band Ghazal with Kayhan Kalhor. His style known as the gayaki ang, is imitative of the subtleties of the human voice. Shujaat Husain Khan was born in Calcutta to legendary sitar player, Ustad Vilayat Khan.

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Sudden Death Of Stars

French psychedelic/shoegaze band from Rennes, influenced by bands such as The Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3 or The Brian Joneswtown Massacre. Bandcamp
Facebook Band members: - 83: Bass, electric guitar & vocals.
- 84: Drums.
- 85: Twelve strings electric guitar, synth, bass & vocals / sitar.
- 86: Electric and acoustic guitars & vocals / tambourine.
- 87: Farfisa Compact, Philips Philicorda & Vox Jaguar organs, Roland analog strings, digital tanpura, electric guitar & vocals. Discography:

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bishi

A young musician & DJ Bishi was British born to a Bengali musical family. Her mother, an Indian Classical singer, warned her against the dangers of a musical life. Undeterred she took secret lessons in voice & piano. An outcast at school because of her dress sense. At the age of 13, she met club promoter & musician Matthew Glamorre at a Minty concert becoming friends, they have been collaborating ever since.

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Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar (born April 7, 1920 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India) is a Bengali-Indian musician best known for his virtuosity on the sitar. A disciple of Allauddin Khan (founder of the maihar gharana of indian classical music), Pandit Ravi Shankar is arguably the best-known Indian instrumentalist, and is well known for his pioneering work in bringing the power and appeal of the indian classical music tradition, as well as indian music and its performers in general, to the West. This was done through his association with The Beatles as well as with his own personal charisma.

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Same Actor

Same Actor is a 3 piece from Balingry, South Fife. All children of ex coal miners, Same actor's music details the pain and poverty of growing up working class Fife, but also the beauty found through neccesity

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Tom Tyler

There are a number of artists with the name Tom Tyler: 1) Tom Tyler – a modern day one-man super band – injects fresh excitement into the UK rock/pop scene with ‘Shooting Star’ from his debut solo album, ‘Silence’. Undoubtedly multi-talented (writing, vocals, multi-instrumentalist and production), Tom Tyler is rapidly garnering acclaim amongst musical and media circles. http://www.tomtylermusic.co.uk

Saddar Bazaar

Saddar Bazaar (translation: central market) is raga rock band based in Bristol, UK. Formed in 1990 by Shaun Hyder (sitar) and Rehan Matthew Hyder (guitar), they were soon joined by John Sage on drums and supported various bands in the local area such as The Seers, Praise Space Electric and the Bevis Frond. They also played at the well known Ashton Court Community Festival in Bristol.
By 1992 John had left the band and had been replaced by David Spencer, whilst Tainenska Royal came in on flute and keyboards.

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