Indian Slide-Guitar maestro Debashish Bhattacharya plays an early morning raga, Ahir Bhairav, which combines elements of the profound raga Bhairav with the romance and sorrow of Ahiri folk melodies.

Bhattacharya's imaginative renderings and innovative extensions of playing technique and instrument design reveal the kind of provocative re-thinking that has always been at the vanguard of Indian Classical Music.

Debashish Bhattacharya has created his own, unique style and technique of playing the slide guitar.

Debashish Bhattacharya is one of the most outstanding Indian Slide Guitar players in India today. Here, Debashish plays Raga Pahadi Jhijhoti and is accompanied by Swapan Chaudhuri on the tabla.

Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide-Guitar Odyssey by Debashish Bhattacharya is a musical journey through the centuries of guitar playing in India.

Desert slide is a new music collective featuring Grammy award winner Vishwa Mohan Bhatt playing the Mohan Veena (Indian slide guitar) and a selection of the crème de la crème of the Desert musicians of Rajasthan.

Rais Khan in a recital of Indian classical sitar music, Live at the Kufa Gallery, London, June 1993. Accompanied by Anindo Chatterjee on tabla.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt: This remarkable musician again astounds the audience with his mastery of the Mohan Vina, a unique Indian slide guitar of his own invention.

A digital Live recording of a Mohan Veena recital by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt in Pittsburg, USA 1989. Bhatt is accompanied by Sukhvinder Singh on the tabla.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, considered as the world's greatest Indian slide guitarist has come to prominence in the west due to his grammy award winning collaboration with Ry Cooder on 'Meeting by the River'.