-- Guitarist Prasanna --

Prasanna’s Corner

Hi folks! I am in the last stages of recording/mixing my new album which is turning out to be quite something with some amazing musicians on it including my wife vocalists Shalini and Natalie John, pianist Vijay Iyer, trumpeter Dave Douglas, saxophonists Rudresh Mahanthappa and David Binney, bassists Mike Pope and Bill Urmson, drummers Rodney Holmes and Mauricio Zottarelli and more. The album will come out in early 2010. 2010 will also see the release of albums that I recorded with the two other collaborative bands that I play and write for - 'Ragabop trio' with saxophonist George Brooks and drummer Steve Smith and 'Tirtha' with pianist Vijay Iyer and tabla player Nitin Mitta.

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Nov 24, 2009

Sri Sri Ravishankar of Art of Living Foundation will lay the foundation stone for Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music on Nov 27, 2009 at Marg Swarnabhoomi near Chennai, India. SAM with Prasanna as its President will be India's first professional college for Jazz, Rock and World music

Sept 1, 2009

SAM conducted the first residential international workshop in music at Marg Tapovan from Aug 17 to 22, 2009 at MARG Tapovan near Chennai, India. The faculty included guitarists Prasanna and David Gilmore, bassist Mike Pope and drummer Rodney Holmes. The workshop was a resounding success with musicians from all over India and the UK attending it.

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	Prasanna is a living hope for quality music - A.R. Rahman,
	Academy Award winning film composer
	Prasanna plays guitar like nobody on the planet - Phil Dipietro,
	Allaboutjazz.com
	A true world music visionary - Bill Milkowski, Jazziz
	As instantly recognizable as Carlos Santana or Jimi Hendrix - Teed
	Rockwell, India currents magazine
	He just cannot strike a false note ever - R. Srinivasan, Indian Express


'How can you play Carnatic music on a guitar'? is a question that was on everyone's mind when Prasanna daringly took to one of the world's most ancient musical forms on one of the world's most modern instruments - the electric guitar! 20 years on, the question is still asked by everyone but now in disbelief at how Prasanna brings out the subtlest of microtones on a standard electric guitar and goes even further by extending his signature style to Jazz, Blues, Rock, Classical music and everything that he feeds in as a contemporary musician of today.

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