Album Notes

Product Description:
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This is a special release of a performance/interview of Ashwin on KKUP Radio in Cupertino, California. We hope you will enjoy its live nature and on-air vibes. An interview with Ashwin is included.

John Taylor, one of Ashwin's students, accompanies him throughout the performance on the tabla.

A special thanks to Joe Sodja and "The Ethnic Connection" for inviting Ashwin and recording the performance. Ashwin has been a regular contributor to KKUP for the past 25 years!

About the Artist:
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Ashwin Batish Biography:
Composer, Performer, Teacher of Music, Recording Artist

Speciality: Sitar and Tabla

Birthplace: Bombay, India

Education Musical: Training in North Indian classical music from his father Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish

Academic: Associate in Arts (Accounting) - Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, California; Bachelor of Science (Accounting) - San Jose State University, San Jose, California

Teaching Recent Positions: Master Instructor - Batish Institute of Music & Fine Arts, Santa Cruz, California.

Previous Positions: Music Faculty San Jose State University - East/West Fusion. Guest Lecturer - Mills College, Oakland, California. University of California, Santa Cruz. Cabrillo College, California.

Recording Artist: Batish Records, California, U.S.A.

Ashwin is very well know for being an educator. His series of instructional videos for the sitar, tabla, dilruba, dholak, vichitra veena, harmonium that he has produced with his father Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish have become a very sought after commodity by the Indian music student. Ashwin often gives private and group Indian music lessons at his Santa Cruz, California USA facility and is often called upon by various music festivals and universities to perform his sitar and be a guest lecturer for weekend workshops and seminars on Indian music and ethnopop, raga rock sitar fusion.

Ashwin Batish's pioneering effort in worldbeat music called "Sitar Power" has earned him some critical reviews and great respect in the music community. The sitar is ageless in Ashwin's hands. It is souped up for amplification and effects! We hope you get to catch one of Ashwin's electric performances. His music is as dynamic as his stage presence.

Please visit our music institute's web site at www.batish.com for latest updates on our complete catalog and activity announcements.