debashis sinha

MUSIC

Sinha's extensive experience on the concert stage as a long term member of some of Canada's most treasured world music ensembles and as percussionist in demand with some of the other leading lights of the world music scene run parallel to his solo musical work for CD, dance, theatre, video and live performance. Notable appearances include composition for Peggy Baker Solo Dance, Dancemakers, Hari Krishnan, Peter Chin, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, and concert appearances with Leela Gilday, Autorickshaw, The Flying Bulgars, Jesse Cook, Marilyn Lerner, and Maryem Tollar.

ONGOING

Knuckleduster // percussion and laptop duo with Berlin electronica artist Robert Lippok

Maza Mezé // Arabic/Greek folk music fusion ensemble, performing original music/reinterpreting folk songs from Greece and the Arab world on traditional instruments

Ima Ensemble // free improvised music with world music practitioners

Ensemble Polaris // Northern music

LISTEN:

solo percussion improvisations one // two //

percussion + electronics one // two //

riqq solo // doumbeck solo I // doumbeck solo II //

For more music, see the "audio / AV" page, the "store" page, and the band websites