Hi everyone,

I’m pleased to share with you that I have brand new music featured on Right Brain Records’ latest release: Guitar Improv Summit Vol 2. I recorded a piece specifically for this project and am quite pleased with how it turned out. The requirement of Right Brain Records was that all the music on the compilation be completely spontaneous, without any premeditation. Indian classical music is based in improvisation in the first place but I took extra care…

After what feels like a long time, I’m excited to be sharing new music with you.

Stream and purchase the new track here.

This rendition of afternoon raga Bhimpalasi is the first known collaboration between the 20-stringed Indian slide guitar and the jori:

The jorī traces its origins to the 18th-century dukkar baaj (a style of playing developed around the kettle drums used in folk music) and developed further in the Punjab region of south Asia…

Back in March of this year, I started a weekly live-streaming concert series with my musical compatriot Kees van Boxtel from Netherlands. Our effort we dubbed ‘Peace at Home’ and we performed 10 concerts that resulted in our album by the same name, released in April, 2020. At the time, it seemed like the world was falling down around our heads as we spent long, meandering days cooped up inside. There was no one on the streets, suburban Mumbai was eerily quiet and each day the news was worse. Like many, I…

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Weekly live-streaming concerts to strengthen, focus and calm. Ragas for Peace & Happiness is my personal offering to you and to the world. It is also an opportunity for us to spend time together in community and in exploring the traditional manner in which a raga unfolds.

Each performance of a raga is unique, the artist’s personal interpretation based on the current time, space, mood and environment. When you join my live sessions, you become a…

Hello everyone,

I'm excited to share with you my work with the band Maati Baani in their latest release, 'Karpur Gauram'. This is a very inventive and exciting composition played by 17 different musicians from 9 countries all over the world. What we all have in common is that we are in "lockdown" due to the virus and that we are not letting that stop the artist's message of hope from reaching our listeners.

If you check out their YouTube and other…

Thanks to all who tuned in! Below is the video. I performed

Raga Malkauns, alap jod and jhala

Jai Love (Dhun in Raga Desh)

Amazing Grace --> The Peacock medley

Raga Bhairavi, tarana

I really enjoyed performing for you all. We had some technical difficulties in the beginning and the audio is coming from only one channel in this video. Watch this page and I will be updating it with the proper audio.

If you haven't yet, please check out the Patronage Hub and stay in touch.

My daily streaming series, Peace…

Namaste everyone,

I’m excited to announce my new Patronage Hub. This is a way for you to connect more deeply with my world of music and support my music in a meaningful way.

Since the 16^th century, Indian classical musicians have been supported by patrons of the arts from maharajas in their courts to folks hosting baithaks, house-concerts, in their homes.

When you sign up as my patron through my patronage hub, you receive immediate access to my entire catalog of recordings (some 5 albums and several…

STREAM ‘Find It’ Now on the platform of your choice.

(I also tried my hand at making a simple music video for the song)

Bringing together my diverse musical background and inspiration with my journey with the Indian slide guitar, I’ve released a new single on streaming platforms: ‘Find It’. This is a song I’ve kept in the archive for a long time, wondering if I should release it as it is quite different than my usual music. ‘Find It’ is a further exploration of combining the Indian slide guitar…

Raga Rageshree is an evening raga with a romantic and sentimental mood. Above is the video of my performance of Rageshree at Jalopy Theatre in Brooklyn, New York. I was fortunate to be accompanied by Mir Naqibul Islam again, a great player and all around good guy I had the pleasure of meeting just a couple months ago when Mir came up to accompany my concerts at Wendy Redlinger’s House Concert Series and at Stone Church Arts. This particular concert in Brooklyn was part of a weekly series hosted by…

Now you can watch the video of our studio performance of ‘Jai Love’ from the most recent album! Check it out: all one take, no cuts, no edits, just pure inspiration and music. Hope you enjoy it! Please like, share, and subscribe to the Joel Veena YouTube channel here.

Thank you!