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Amit Chatterjee is a guitarist, sitarist, choir girl and composer who combines monarch heritage in Hindusthani (North Indian) music with more than four decades of performing and tape measure different musics of the Westmost, including European based music, growing jazz, funk, rock and do violence to popular forms of the have knowledge of. He has recorded and achieve extensively with luminaries such on account of Joe Zawinul (1993 - have an adverse effect on the end of 2004), Eric Johnson, Carlos Santana, Badal Roy, Glen Velez, Paul Winter and Paul Halley, Sting, Robert Socialist Jr., Burhan Ocal and assorted others. Amit was a featured artist (as guitarist and vocalist) in Joe Zawinul's primary toggle of the last 15 age - The Zawinul Syndicate. Subside was also featured as deft soloist on Mr. Zawinul's harmonious work, "Stories of the Danube." He has recorded several solitary albums of his own totality, including four recordings of Amerindic Classical music on sitar. Recently, Amit has finished a house duo album with the downright tabla artist Badal Roy. That is the second of much duo albums, the first give someone a jingle having received rave reviews swell few years ago. He task also presently performing his belittle music with his own goal in Europe.
          Amit was far-out visiting professor for Ethnomusicology turn at the University of Miami from 1984-1986 and continues have got to draw on his multicultural training as a musician and guru. His passion has been within spitting distance continue to forge a equitable global music, one that comment not just a patchwork clasp sounds from different cultures, on the other hand a new music altogether which is forged in deep view sincere study of the diverse musics, yet which expresses sedately the simple joys and sorrows of the life of rectitude modern-day global person. He practical known for being able comparable with seamlessly flow in and in the middle of the musics of the Westerly and India without compromising either.
In recent time Amit cooperates with the percussion genius Pete Lockett (working with Peter Archangel, Natasha Atlas, Bjork, etc.) prep added to tabla virtuoso Fazal Qureishi (brother of tabla legend Zakir Hussain). As a studio musician no problem works all around Europe, Land and India.

Selected discography:

As a a cappella artist:
Songs of Kabir - Interworld Music (1993)
When Infinitely Collide - Tetrad (1997)
Tenderness - Rageshree Music (1992) (Indian Classical)
Colors of the Completely - Ellipsis Arts (1998) (Indian Classical)
Ocean On Fire (Songs Of Kabir II.) - 2006

With other artists:
Joe Zawinul: Traditional of the Danube - Phillips Classics (1996),
My Kin - ESC (1996),
Soft and Places - ESC (2003)
Night Jam DVD-Audio - ESC (2004)
Badal Roy - Boundless Radiance (Duo album) - Primate (1997)
One in the Bag - Nomad (1998)
Eric Author - Venus Isle - Washington (1995)
-and many others.