sitar beat

East meets west or orient meets occident. This crossover project connects Tagore's songs
(Bengal) and Mantras with western groove and instruments like drums, bass, electronics and
trumpet to a style of ambient, chillout, indian trip-hop, electronic and world music.
This project is initiated through a musician couple Doreen Seidowski-Faust and Mario Faust
from Dresden.They both studied long time in Germany as well as in India singing and
instrumental music.
Sitar beat not just rotates around itself but searches challenges, experimental playing (apart
from composition) determines the concept and proudly presents the list of exotic and
exclusive guests: Shanka Chatterjee (tabla, Calcutta), Nader Khafif (oud, Damaskus), Pandit
Kamlesh Maitra (tabla, Calcutta), Pt.Debendra Kanti Chakrawarty (tabla, Calcutta), Soumik
Datta (sarod, London) and D. Sujana (vina, Madras).