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Ben Kunin, a sarode player, learned his instrument with over 20 years study at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, CA under the legendary Maestro Ali Akbar Khan. Although his focus is North Indian classical music, Ben began his musical career as a guitarist.
"Acoustic Adventures" released on the Communion label features works for solo guitar and has been featured regularly on National Public Radio (NPR) since 2002. In addition he has several recordings of original compositions for sarode, guitar, tabla and other instruments. In 2004 came "Raga and Blues" with Kukoo Singh, tablas, and in 2005 "Point of Departure" and 2007 "El Son Sarod" with Andres Sabogal, Latin American percussion. Ben performs regularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here's how "Thom Jurek" of the "All Music Guide" describes Ben and his music: "For those who've never heard of him, classical guitarist Ben Kunin learned sarod as well as Hindustani music theory at a school founded by legendary Indian musician and sarodist Ali Akbar Khan. However, Kunin's abilities on the nylon-stringed guitar are truly out of the ordinary, as evidenced by his debut on the Communion label. These "acoustic adventures" are exactly those journeys into spectral sound where Western classical, folk, and Hindustani traditions meet. Kunin plays with the transcendent freedom that all great musicians do, but channels his influences and theories into a music that is not only thoroughly accessible to anyone with the ears to listen, but so spiritually, emotionally, and archetypically sophisticated as to be in a category all by itself. it conveys the same spirit of adventure, quest, and exploratory chops with grace and elegance. A gem."
