INDIAN MUSIC STUDIES
An acclaimed Indian and Jazz Guitarist, Todd Mosby is the only guitarist to become a member of the famed Imdhad Khani Gharana of musicians, India’s most prestigious family of sitar musicians dating back 500 years to Tan-Sen and the Moghul courts.
Encompassing elements from jazz, raag, classical, folk rock and bluegrass into his sound, Mosby has created his own musical syntax. The result is a distinct style unique to Mosby’s sense of composition, transcending known genres of music.
His dedicated 13 year study of classical North Indian music with Ustadt Imrat Khan led a very different guitar technique and the development of acoustic and electric versions of the Imrat guitar, an 18 stringed hybrid sitar-guitar bridge instrument for crossing musical platforms and cultures.
Imrat Khan considers Mosby to be one of the few Western musicians who have mastered the two great mountains of music; North Indian Raag and Western Composition and Improvisation.
“I needed to expand the bounds of conventional guitar in order to access the higher sonic aspects of Classical North Indian music… it is in the nature of guitar to allow for these kinds of adaptations… a hybrid sitar guitar to bridge the East West music gap.”