Wednesday 16 November 2011

Shankar Tucker– An Amazing Composer !

Fab music ! Really short of words to describe his  astounding talent.Shankar Tucker, a  24-year-old American clarinet player appeals the world with his magical fusions.Shankar has been been experimenting with Carnatic Classical music, among very many other things. He meddles with the music concepts which other musicians rarely attempts, and sets listeners into a  hypnotic trance.

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Shankar's YouTube channel, TheShrutiBox, has gone viral -his creations have drawn over lakhs  of viewers in short time.Shankar has chosen  online platform - youtube to bring his music to lights and  it has been sensational. His YouTube music channel, The Shrutibox, features his fusion compositions and has garnered two million hits. He has also experimented with a Indo-western mixture featuring Adele's hit track Rolling in the Deep with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's iconic track O Re Piya.

Shankar grew up in Massachusetts. He was named Shankar as suggested by Amritanandamayi whom his family follows. As a high school student, Shankar was drawn towards Indian classical music on listening to "Remember Shakti" by John McLaughlin and started playing on his own. Shankar graduated from New England Conservatory in Boston, where he studied orchestral clarinet performance. He started taking lessons in Indian classical music from Peter Row, a sitar player. Eventually he obtained a scholarship to study with flute maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia in Mumbai.

An Experiment with a Hindi / Western Pop song mash-up, combining Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's "O Re Piya" with Adele's "Rolling in the Deep".

He masters in playing  tabla, guitar, kanjira and an eclectic mix of eastern and western instruments in addition to clarinet. He magnificently blends the essence of jazz, pop, Indian classical to create seamless fusion.Let the soul reaching melodies flow out through his chords.

 

Rremake of the classic Tamil film song, from the movie "Sillunu Oru Kaddhal", featuring the amazing Iyer sisters

You can find him here :
Shankar Tucker’s Official Website : http://www.shankartucker.com
Shankar Tucker’s Official Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheShrutibox
Shankar Tucker’s Official Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/theshrutibox
Shankar Tucker’s Official Twitter: http://twitter.com/shankartucker

2 comments:

Misia:) said...

nice that are talented people who create something amazing, full of passion, not only what media promotes
music should be created with love.
someone who impress;)

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