Debashish Bhattacharya is India's leading inventor and exponent of slide guitars.He is a Nominee for grammy award 2009 for his much acclaimed album "Calcutta Chronicles" and winner of BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music in 2007.

Based in the West Bengal city of Kolkata, where he runs his own 'School of Universal Music', Bhattacharya got the slide guitar bug as a three-year-old, when he started experimenting with a Hawaiian lap steel guitar. Recent albums have showcased a 'trinity of guitars' – his favourites of the many he has invented? The 22-stringed Chaturangi, the 14-stinged Ghandarvi and the tiny ukulele-like Anandi, which has only 4 strings. Each produces a wide array of timbres, which he uses to suggest various Indian instruments.

Witness some of  the best showcases for Bhattacharya's extraordinary note-bending artistry, set against a droning heat haze of tamboura sound. You can almost see his fingers sliding over the strings as he teases exquisite, metallic tendrils of sound from them.