I am singer songwriter based in mumbai,India and my work is based on my travels around india where i could imbibe inspiration from even smallest of things which matter.
I have been lucky to be alumini of two of Indias best music and sound institutions-Film and television institute of India,pune ( sound engineering,2011) and Audio Media Education (an A R Rahman collaborative institute),chennai (music production)
As a music producer for television and radio ,I have been fortunate enough to work with some great people and brands namely bajaj,shopperstop,westside,future group,All India radio,Radio mirchi,Radio 104 fever fm,viacom 18 and numerous short documentaries with a student national award for documentary "deja vu" in 2012.
Currently apart from television and radio work,I am resisdent artist for National streets of performing arts,mumbai and solo performer with folk fusion my forte.

2013 was eventful....won best singer /songwriter at Bandstand revival/NH7.in for people's choice concert.Also performed at Kalaghoda music festival mumbai,Mumbai women's half marathon ,americares spirit of humanity awards among others..

be my travel mate in my journey of music...inspire and get inspired..:)
stay.driven.

pratuljoshi11@gmail.com
for querries related to live events contact
Shrishti -09820428850
peace..

Jaya Kumar Kerala Varma –aka- Jayen Varma, known for developing Indian Slap Bass lives in India, the land of many amazing Musicians and Music genres.  With persistent effort for more than two decades, he proved the World that Tabla/Mridangam finger technique can be applied on Bass Guitar. In 2008 The Registry of Official World Records (Record Holders Republic) USA&UK declared him the Fastest Percussive Bassist.

Anand Krishnamoorthi is a freelance sound recordist/designer from Chennai, India. He works in feature films as a production mixer, location recordist, and supervising sound editor.

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Prasanna is the quintessential Indian Renaissance man. A pioneer in performing Carnatic music on the guitar, an engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, a composer for award winning films, an internationally acclaimed guitarist in contemporary Jazz, Rock and Blues, a Magna-Cum-Laude graduate of Berklee College of Music, and an entrepreneurial visionary who established a world class music college that blends the Indian Gurukula system of learning with contemporary western college education pedagogy.

Prasanna was voted among the ‘top 50 creative Indians’ by Open Magazine in 2010 alongside Sachin Tendulkar, Amir Khan, Viswanathan Anand, Arundati Roy and others. Prasanna (Smile Pinki) also belongs to a select group of Indian composers along with Pandit Ravi Shankar (Gandhi) and A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) who have composed music for Oscar Winning films.

A fearless innovator in contemporary music and yet steeped in the authentic Carnatic tradition with 6 years of study with guru Vocalist Tiruvarur Balasubramaniam and 26 years of study with masterful violinist guru A. Kanyakumari, Prasanna has been the first point of exposure to the possibilities of Carnatic music for thousands of listeners and musicians from the around the world. He was awarded the ‘Life Time Achievement Award’ for Carnatic music by H.H. Sri Jayendra Saraswathi in 2006.

He is deeply devoted to spreading the gospel of Carnatic music on the guitar and is passionately educating young children from all over the world in this beautiful art form.

Prasanna’s prolific body of work include 16 albums as leader, a concert DVD and an Instructional DVD and numerous concerts at major festivals with some of the world’s most acclaimed artists across every genre of contemporary music. He has performed with Airto Moreira, A.R. Rahman, Jordan Rudess, Esperanza Spalding, Joe lovano, Illayaraja, Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Victor Wooten, Dweezil Zappa, Alex Acuna, Dave Douglas, Omar Hakim, Larry Coryell, T.K. Murthy, Anthony Jackson, Howard Levy, Trilok Gurtu and others. He is a member of three groundbreaking bands – ‘Raga Metal Conversations’ with Alex Skolnick and Anton Fig, ‘Ragabop trio’ with Steve Smith and George Brooks and ‘Tirtha’ with Vijay Iyer and Nitin Mitta. Prasanna’s composition ‘Falsehood’ is featured in the Book ‘Essentials of Jazz – the first 100 years’ by Henry Martin and Keith Waters alongside the works of some of the most influential composers in Jazz History. Prasanna was also a winner in the 2014 International Songwriting Contest in Jazz for his composition ‘Springtime in New York’.

Prasanna’s film scores include Megan Mylan’s Academy  Award winning documentary ‘Smile Pinki’ and Sundance Festival film ‘After the Garden Grows’,  Indian National Award and Filmfare Award winning Tamil film ‘Vazhakku Enn 18/9’,  Ian McDonald’s multi-award winning sports documentary ‘Algorithms’,  Chetan Shah’s English feature film ‘Framed’ and many more.

His creative collaboration with A.R. Rahman includes guitar performances in the Score and Soundtrack of Dreamworks’ ‘A Hundred Foot Journey’, Disney’s ‘Million Dollar Arm’ alongside numerous Indian films like Puthiya Mugam, Jeans, Swades, Highway and others. Prasanna also is credited with arranging and conducting the string orchestra for the title score of the 2002 Oscar nominated Bollywood Film ‘Lagaan’ . Prasanna also collaborated with A.R. Rahman on his MTV Coke Studio project which is also released on CD and DVD worldwide by Sony Music.

Prasanna is a highly regarded educator and has given lectures, talks, workshops and residencies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Banff Center for the Arts, Berklee College of Music, Harvard University, Osnabruck Institute of Music etc. Prasanna’s passion for music education led him to establish one of the largest colleges of music in South Asia – Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music (SAM) in 2009 with funding and infrastructure support from Marg Group of Companies. 



The Khayal Groove is Aparna Panshikar on north Indian classical Vocals and Jayen Varma on Bass Guitar in collaboration with the French Drummer, Jean Davoisne and various Artists and Bands across the World...

A unique collaboration to create not only music but an experience...

Freedom of improvisation within the discipline and structure of a routine of rhythm and melodic features of a Raga.

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CONTACT INDIA: 
khayalgroove@gmail.com

CONTACT FRANCE:
davoisne@hotmail.fr

Welcome to the ARCHIVE OF INDIAN MUSIC (AIM) – the repository of gramophone recordings of India!
AIM seeks to digitize and preserve for posterity the valuable slices of India’s cultural history and musical heritage. The Archive is a custodian of these treasures and makes these available for all through its different dissemination arms. 
Come, join us in this fascinating exploration of an era that has gone by, listen to some of the best voices and the most divine instruments of this country cutting across various genres- Hindustani classical, Carnatic classical, Theatre, Early cinema, Folk and the rest! 


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