Nandan Gautam

Baku-based writer and composer Nandan Gautam comfortably straddles several realms – teaching meditation, writing and composing music aligned to his sophisticated jazz-pop tastes and imbuing it with eastern folk sounds and meditative chants, alongside extended guitar and piano solos.
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Nandan composed, produced, handles all the voices, keyboards, programmed the beats and bass lines on his first album, The King of the Sea as well as his upcoming album The Divine Flaw. The tracks on The King of the Sea are majestically lush, rife with smart pop hooks, ear candy textures; melodic motifs with ethereal vocals alongside searing guitar solos courtesy of Tony Das and Ilia Maisuradze, and traditional Azerbaijani clarinet by Sabir Memmedov. On The Divine Flaw, Nandan also features some of the finest jazz musicians in the world – Rainer Brüninghaus (Composer/Pianist with Jan Garbarek and Eberhard Weber), Tom Schuman (Keyboardist/Co-leader of Spyro Gyra), Chad Wackerman (Composer/Drummer with Allan Holdsworth and Frank Zappa) and Grammy award winner Antonio Sanchez (Drummer/Composer with Pat Metheny and composer of the original film score for Birdman), all of whom are/were part of the revolutionary bands that he grew up listening to.
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"I look for untouched spaces... undiscovered realms... There is vast universe inside each of us... I try to find the doors and open them up... for myself and hopefully for others as well..."