Asheem chakravarty
a.k.a. : Indian Ocean

He was the man with the golden voice. Amazingly, asheem sang while playing, with remarkable clarity and ease, a difficult art almost never done by indian percussionists. Asheem's rhythm structures were interestingly his own, contributing a large part to indian ocean's signature rhythms, while the melodies he created were wonderfully different. He loved improvising vocal lines on stage. He played traditional indian percussion instruments in completely innovative ways, and even played rhythm structures on a bass guitar! Brought up in an atmosphere of indian classical, folk and other indian forms, asheem showed his rhythmic spark at an extremely early age, amazing musicians who learnt that he never had any formal training.he was mr tangent, king of the non-sequitur.

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