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Music Composer & Flutist (Bansuri)
BAPU PADMANABHA –
Entered musical fantasy by flute purchased at village festival and become obsessed with the flute that he started idolizing Pt. Hariparasad Churasia as his Guru. After a deep search finally in 1999 Bapu able to meet his idol and began the learning process. Bapu gave a different dimension to the modernist music movement by eliminating shallow dichotomies and binaries that figured quite prominently in most other younger performers of India. Worked with Singers like Hariharan,Shaan,Shankar Mahadevan.
His effort of blending tradition to the modernity were often transparent and went beyond reductionist ideological positions. On the other hand the textures of his expressions supported by sound patterns and an intense experimental content made him most significant musician of postmodern India. Bapu’s Music has been released by “Ministry of External Affairs Government of India” under the title’s “Music as therapy”. Bapu also trying to institutionalize his thoughts by establishing “Aantardhwani” which aims at linking modern problems to traditional root of sound and spirituality through a creative expressions.
