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Joshi was the name of multi-instrumentalist Josh Carrigan's former recording project. Joshi used analog equipment to record 'listenable' experimental folk music. Carrigan currently records as Cassette Concrete and a double album featuring Joshi's 'Animal Faith' and Cassette Concrete's 'a tape gone leave no trace' is being released on Leisure Class Records this June. He is also a member of the improvisational group, Robador. He has previously played with, among others: The Advantage, Six Parts Seven, the Mae Shi, Books on Tape, Extreme Animals, Racebannon, Liz Isenberg, Rubbed Raw, Wrinkle, and Vio/Mire. His music can be found at www.myspace.com/joshimusic and www.robador.com...

Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (Kannada : ಪಂಡಿತ ಭೀಮಸೇನ ಗುರುರಾಜ ಜೋಷಿ. Marathi: पंडित भीमसेन जोशी) was a Hindustani classical singer of the Kirana gharana. Apart from being an expert in khayal singing , he was also adept in the presentation of thumris, songs from plays, or devotional compositions. He also sang for several films. Joshi was born in 1922 into a Brahmin family in Gadag, Karnataka. At the age of 11, against his father's wishes, Bhimsen Joshi ran away from home to learn music. A few years of his youth were thus spent in the company of well known musicians at...