Live Asian & Persian Electronica!

Asian & Persian massive performed by some of India & Iran's finest leading musicians flown in from Calcutta, India and N.Y.!!

Shirzad Sharif - Tonbak & Daf Shirzad was born to a highly acclaimed musical family in Iran and studied the Tonbak under the strict supervision of the renowned Ostad Bahman Rajabi. Since then he has adapted his own unique style of playing enabling him to play melodic rhythms on the Tonbak while accompanying various instruments which must be seen and heard to be fully appreciated. Shirzad is also the first Tonbak player to have researched & performed other Middle Eastern, Arabic & non-Persian rhythms on the Tonbak. Accompanying other Arabic and Indian drums he is thus the first percussionist to have connected and created a rhythmical triangle within the three ancient regions of Persia, India & the Middle East. He is also the founder of Som'ma and pioneer of avant-garde Persian music which uses Persian classical music modes and abstract avant-garde ideas!

Alan Kushan - Santur  Alan Kushan is one of today's most accomplished Santur player, composer and singer. Born in Mahabad, Kurdistan in 1960. Kushan lead a very eclectic childhood traveling through Persia, India, Pakistan, Israel, Turkey, Greece and Europe. It was these early travels that laid the foundation for his unique love and understanding of global music and culture. Having studied santur with the great Faramarz Payevar from the age of 9, he then moved to Europe to continue his studies and received a Masters Degree in Classical Composition from Berlin University's Conservatory of Music. During his tenure in Europe he studied improvisation with Sir Yehudi Menuhin, avant-garde theory with Karlheinz Stockhausen and the vocal music of the Arab Peninsula with world-renowned Egyptian musicologist: Dr Hassan Habib. He quickly became recognized as one the most dynamic forces within contemporary world music and has performed and collaborated with some of today’s greatest musicians, including Miles Davis, Paco De Lucia, Max Roach, Billy Cobham, Ronald Shannon Jackson and Mickey Hart.

Debojyoti Bose  - Sarod  Debojyoti Bose naturally inherits an unstained musical acumen, for he was born in a family of passionate musicians, on the 20th day of December 1962 at Kolkata - the citadel of Indian Classical Music. His father Pandit Biswanath Bose, disciple of Late Pandit Kanthe Maharaj of Benaras and his mother Smt. Bharati Bose, a keen Sitar player and a disciple of Mian Davir Khan, Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, sowed the seed of music in him by imparting the early lessons. His elder brother Pandit Kumar Bose, a celebrated Tabla Nawaaz of international repute, also gave him the fillip to venture into the world of music. Debojyoti has been pursuing his art with an effortful spontaneity. Although he feels akin to Tabla, Sarod has been his passion since history infancy. He received vocal guidance from Sri Jayanta Bose, his second brother, a vocalist of Bishnupur Gharana. His has also received talim in Sarod for over twenty years from Ustad Amjad Ali Khan of Senia Banghas Gharana. Also he has received vocal guidance from Pandit Rajan and Sajan Mishra. http://www.geocities.com/debojyotibose

Kousic Sen  - Tabla Tabla artist Kousic Sen, a child prodigy, was initiated in Tabla playing by Professor Biswanath Bose of the Benares Gharana and later became a disciple of the Tabla wizard Pandit Kumar Bose. Kousic is an accomplished soloist and accompanist, and has performed with many luminaries of Indian dance and music and world music. Over the last decade Kousic has been performing in all the major festivals in India, UK, Europe, Canada and USA.

Jeffery Stott - Bass, Oud, G3 Laptop & electronics  Producer, performer and composer, Jeffery Stott, has been deftly merging the worlds of modern electronic music production and Middle Eastern traditional musics for over a decade. He has studied rural and classical forms with master musicians from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey. These teachers have led him to become accomplished on several traditional Middle Eastern instruments including oud, baglama, yali tambur, and santoor, as well as the full range of percussion instruments of the Middle East. Equally at home in the digital realm, Jeffery contributes much of the programming and production found on the LUMIN albums and live performances. www.luminmusic.org In addition to releasing three full length critically acclaimed CD's Hadra, Datura, and Star of the Sea by STELLAMARA, he has produced international music remixes by Turkish and Persian artists for Universal Records and EMI Europe, as well as composed for film, modern dance and theatrical productions. He has performed at festivals and concerts in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Edinburgh, London, and Mexico. Currently at work on the third LUMIN album with MNO and Irina.   Noah Waldman  - Drumset  Noah a graduate of Boston's Berklee College of Music plays with some of the best musicians in the area. It was at Berklee that he was exposed to different types of music such as Afro-Cuban, Jazz, Middle Eastern, Indian and the music of the African Diaspora. He was privledged to study under the direction of the late Tony Williams and other greats like Kenwood Dennard, Bobby Sanabria, Ernesto Diaz, Wayne Nauss, Ed Uribe, Oscar Stagnardo, Bernardo Hernandez and Jamey Haddad. Noah has additionaly performed with greats like Rebecca Muleon, Orestes Vilato, Larry Harlow, Edgardo Cambon, Oscar Stagnardo, Ed Kelly, Danilo Lazano....