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Debashish Bhattacharya is an Indian musician, renowned for his compositions on slide guitar. His technical prowess allows him to play complex passages at blistering speeds. He first began strumming a guitar at age three and at the age of nine he left his parents for ten years to study under the pioneer of Indian slide-guitar Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra. He invented his own slide-guitars, unique to his compositions, which he calls the Trinity of Guitars and his originality as a musician has earned him global admiration. See below for a short video, just press play.

“He uses a unique three-finger picking technique that gives him lightening speed and creates hypnotic flurries of notes that it would take a battery of special effects to produce from a western Guitar. The results are as beautiful as they are extraordinary.” The Times