What People Say
“Prasanna is a living hope for quality music”
Academy Award-winning composer A.R. RAHMAN
“I sometimes struggle to get my head around the fact that Prasanna and I actually play the same musical instrument. He somehow manages to make an electric guitar do things which are clearly not possible”
Guitar Legend GUTHRIE GOVAN
“The music on this CD can only be the work of a great musician”
Bass guitar legend VICTOR WOOTEN
“Prasanna plays guitar, quite simply like nobody on the planet
PHIL DI PIETRO, allaboutjazz.com
“I’ve never heard an electric guitar sound like that”
MATT WRIGHT, UTAH STATESMAN, USA
“As instantly recognizable as that of Carlos Santana or Jimi Hendrix”
TEED ROCKWELL, INDIA CURRENTS, USA
“Prasanna’s guitar playing seems to exceed the capacity of the instrument”
BRYAN PETTIBONE, CMJ
“…Prasanna also shines with a slippery, stinging tone that occasionally recalls John Abercrombie’s Eastern-tinged excursions”
CHRIS BARTON, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA
“Prasanna’s compositions convey a cosmopolitan harmonic language rich with passing frictions”
NATE CHINEN, NEW YORK TIMES
“His fluid, quicksilver improvisation snaked through Iyer’s jagged, rhythmically dense compositions like a double-speed sitar”
PETER MARGASAK, DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE
“Inhumanly Precise fretwork”
CHICAGO READER, USA
“Penetrating Sitar-like effects”
HOWARD REICH, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, USA
“A highly accomplished plectorist and true world-music visionary”
BILL MILKOWSKI, JAZZIZ MAGAZINE
“Displays formidable guitar chops and compositional ambitions”
DAVID ADLER, JAZZ TIMES
“The musical boundary-crossing Prasanna was an apt choice”
JILL SYKES, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, AUSTRALIA
“He just cannot strike a false note ever”
R. SRINIVASAN, INDIAN EXPRESS
“The gifted guitarist Prasanna has a wonderfully smooth, effortless sound…gracefully unfolding narratives”
DANIEL PATON, Music OMH
“I was left with the distinct feeling that I had seen a master at work”
TEJAS EWING, THE HINDU, INDIA
“Prasanna is a wondrous wake-up call for tired aural neurons”
JOHN PATTERSON, EERMUSIC.COM
“When Prasanna plays the blues, you can hear the world”
NARESH FERNANDES, TIME OUT MAGAZINE, MUMBAI, INDIA
“As a declaration of intent and statement of excellence, this album’s opener ‘Tug of War’ makes it clear that you are in the presence of something special….(Prasanna’s) Tug of War is built for journeys, not merely something preserved on a compact disc”
KEN HUNT, JAZZWISE, UK
“When Prasanna solos he expertly shapes pace and tension toward the rapturous”
TIM OWEN, The Jazz Mann, UK
“Prasanna was absolutely shredding the place with some of the best guitar I have heard this season….”
J HUNTER, NIPPERTOWN, USA
“The real star is Prasanna, who emerges from this album as a major player on the guitar landscape…..’”
SHELTON HULL, INK19, USA
“Prasanna is able to hit notes with a ferocity that only can be accomplished on guitar, but somehow has found the right configuration and technique”
ALARM MAGAZINE, USA
“Prasanna’s vocal play is a welcomed surprise in “Tribal Wisdom.” Part Carnatic-inspired scat, part beat-box, he shines during the solo and leaves listeners desiring more vocal instrumentation”
THE REVIVALIST, USA
“Beautifully phat and thickly distorted power chords fill your speakers. And then Prasanna starts wailing way for five minutes. Its like an alap (an unaccompanied solo/into to a raga) on steroids and cranked to 10. When the piece was over, I took out my lighter, lit it, raised it above my head, and started whistling and yelling mooore!!!”
ROD SIBLEY, ABSTRACTLOGIX.COM
“.Coltrane’s A Love Supreme , Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew , Weather Report’s Black Market , Mahavishnu Orchestra’s Inner Mounting Flame , Shakti’s Natural Elements and, I suspect, Prasanna’s Be The Change.”
VALLIKANTH, ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM
“Prasanna takes the listener through an exotic journey through a mystical middle-land, which captures the practised precision of Carnatic music and yokes it together with the capricious imagination of the music of the ’60s”
RAKESH MEHAR, THE HINDU, BANGALORE, INDIA