ShankarBabaa, or ShankarBaba, is Shankar Barua ~ an infinitely ancient and wise ole man based in India, spending time between an apartment in New Delhi and a homemade home in the Lower Himalayan valley known as Sattal.
He used to be a freelance bass-guitarist and solo bluesman in the mid-1970's, during which time he played everything from hard-rock shows through to cabaret.
He got back into making music in the mid-1990s, primarily so as to pass music on to his son, Bacchus Barua, who is now a full-fledged musician, between slogging through college. Bacchus' first CD-album came out February 2008, under the title, "The Bacchanal............ of Bacchus Barua".
And, Shankar too has got quite a bit back into music, between madness such as organizing CeC & CaC, and networking all sorts of e-Creative Practitioners all over the world on a continuing basis.
Most of his musicworks over the past few years have been sequenced with a stylus on a hand-held Roland PMA-5, with feet up in his spare time,.. generally in the mountains. Some works also include guitar dubbed in on a Yamaha MD-4s. The Ganesa Mantra and Navagraha Mantra on this page were both built from plain vocals. CeC 2009 was a live peerformance, but this particular recording is incomplete,... for technical reasons.
Although he does not push his music as a primary preoccupation, some of Shankar's compositions have nevertheless been used in several art-videos and media festivals, as well as by a top dance-studio in the EU!
Meanwhile, his focus as a musician has lately been somewhat lost in learning to work with electroacoutics in Pure Data~.o)
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