Music

I run a small, inde­pend­ent audio work­shop called Sound­Wal­lah; offer­ing arran­ging, edit­ing, MIDI orches­tra­tion, mixing and sound design ser­vices. My goal is to bring a fresh blend Asian and Latin Amer­ican musical per­spect­ives to Jazz and Funk music.

Even as a child I loved play­ing music; start­ing out on a nylon string guitar play­ing South Amer­ican folk music, as well tunes by Cat Stevens and Don McLean. By my mid teens, things got ser­i­ous as I took up elec­tric guitar, play­ing live and even dove into build­ing and modi­fy­ing gui­tars and guitar effects. I also had the chance to study with some great play­ers, includ­ing Jim Kelly, Carl Orr and Mal East­ick.

After hold­ing down a few dif­fer­ent “day jobs” I returned to full time music six years ago. In that time I’ve worked through some of the great courses avail­able via Berklee’s exten­sion pro­gramme, BerkleeMusic. I’ve com­pleted Master Cer­ti­fic­ates in bothGuitar and in Arran­ging, as well as a Spe­cial­ist Cer­ti­fic­ate in Orches­trat­ing and Pro­du­cing Music for Films and Games.

A big focus for the next few months in the com­ple­tion of my first solo album, Not Quite Jazz. The album fea­tures all ori­ginal com­pos­i­tions and covers my jour­ney over the last five years through Jazz, Jam, Funk, Afro-Cuban, R&B, Tango and Bhangra music.

Below are a few samples of my music.

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And here are a few of my guitars.

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