Mungal Patasar & Pantar

• country:
  Trinidad and Tobago
• region or city:
  Caribbean
• style(s):
  Indian Instrumental
• label:
  Caribbean Music Group Ltd.
• gender:
  male
• instrumentation:
  instrumental
• artist submitted by:
  Caribbean Music Group Ltd.

Mungal Patasar and his band Pantar are performing a unique blend of Caribbean, Latin, Electro and classical music. This master sitarist will release a new album in 2012.

Technical: 7 musicians based in Trinidad and Tobago.

We are looking for co-producers for the album, label and touring agents.

BIO:
The Caribbean is the world's navel. A feminine navel studded
with diamonds. A rosary of islands where, like nowhere else
across the planet, all races and all the people who make up
humanity come together.

From the sister islands of Trinidad and Tobago, a unique artiste
has arrived in our midst. His name is evocative of Esperanto:
Mungal Patasar. As often happens in the
tropics, Mungal has taken the time to live his life and his art...
"I am a musician of the world. India is my memory, Trinidad the
ground under my feet, Europe my door to the world. My music
is a gift that belongs to everyone".

"During my stay in India, I discovered what the expression 'to
work yourself to the bone' meant. After eight hours of daily
sitar exercises, the toughest skin gives in. I understood that
once I returned home I had to regenerate the ancient art of the
raga by exposing it to Caribbean rhythms. My music is holistic
in its essence, but pluralistic in form."

Mungal mulled over and matured his project. His first album
"Dreadlocks", with its already so familiar simple
"Dreadlocks" is a deep and yet playful homage to Man in general
and to African Man in particular. A homage to brillant colours,
to infinite nuances.