He continued as a cajon player and played several concerts with Chris Karrer, guitarist of the famous German band Amon Düül, Rashid Haroun from Algeria, Titus Waldenfels, Monty Waters, Jamal Mohmand from Afghanistan and many others. It was then when he first played the cajon to accompany the tabla. In 2000 he met the sarod player Amit Bhattacharya in Varanasi India and organised two toures through Germany together with him and his Cousin Sandip Bhattacharya from Amsterdam. In 1998 he released his second CD `Nada Sunshine´ on which he was cooperating with musicians from the the scene around Embryo like Christian Burchard and others. Before that trip he released his first CD `Ethnological Forgery Series´ in 1994, on which he played almost all the Instruments himself and displayed his interest in african and asian music in his compositions.Īfter that he became a member of the german group Embryo during 1996 to 98 and toured with them throughout Germany, Italy and Spain. He made his first experiences in bands as a bass player, before he discovered the djembe at the age of 18 and received formal instruction from people like Cheikh Tidiane Niane from Senegal.Īfter some years as a percussionist in Jazz projects he came in touch with indian music and aspired to intensive training on the Sitar during a six months trip to India in 1994-95. At the age of 10 he started to teach himself the guitar.
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