Guthrie Govan, Gino Banks, Mohini Dey.
Guthrie Govan
Guthrie Govan is an English virtuoso guitarist and guitar teacher, known for his work with the bands The Aristocrats, Asia, GPS, The Young Punx and The Fellowship, as well as his solo project, Erotic Cakes. More recently, he has collaborated with Steven Wilson and Hans Zimmer. He is a noted guitar teacher, working with the UK Magazine Guitar Techniques, Guildford's Academy of Contemporary Music, Lick Library, and formerly, The Brighton Institute of Modern Music. He is the 1993 winner of Guitarist Magazine's "Guitarist of the Year" competition.
Mohini Dey
Mohini Dey - daughter of bass player Sujoy Dey has been described as prodigy by many acclaimed musicians. Mohini Dey has been already making waves in music. She started learning bass guitar at the tender age of 3. She started doing concerts and recordings at the age of 10. Now, she is 17 years old. She has been described as 1 of the most extraordinary and creative, finest bass player of India by many acclaimed musician. She has played with Ranjit Barrot on his album named "Bada Boom" at the age of 13.
Gino Banks
Born and brought up in Mumbai, India, Gino has been fooling around with the drums since he was 8 years old and took it up seriously at the age of 15. He is the son of Louiz Banks, India 's legendary jazz pianist and composer. He toured Australia and China with his father's indo-jazz fusion band Sangam, playing percussion when he was just 9 years old.
Gino is a versatile musician, this trait leads him to perform and record with artists and bands of all types of genres. Artists like his father Louiz Banks, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pt. Shivkumar Sharma, Ustad Rashid Khan, the late great U. Srinivas, Fazal Qureshi, Taufiq Qureshi, Bikram Ghosh, Pt. Vikku Vinayakram, Sridar Parthasarathy, Sanjay Divecha and Karl Peters; to Bollywood sessions and gigs with A.R. Rahman, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Salim-Sulaiman, Vishal-Shekhar, Amit Trivedi, Pritam, and Hariharan; to fusion groups Arka, Niladri Kumar, Rakesh Chaurasia's Raf, Ravi Chary Crossing, Mekaal Hasan band, Ananthaal, Dhruv Ghanekar, Amaan & ayaan Ali Khan, Stephen Devassy and Bala Bashkar; to pop/rock/blues bands like Indus Creed, Blackstrat Blues, Soulmate, Gary Lawyer, Baiju Dharmajan, Suneeta Rao, Skinny Alley, Joe Alvares and Shefali Alvares. He has performed with international musicians like Dave Holland, Chris Potter, Mike Stern, Guthrie Govan, Tony Lakatos, George Brooks, The Maske Trio, Leni Stern, Angela Hagenbach, Carl Clements and The Dallas Horns as well as with dance troupes like Pt. Birju Maharaj's Kathak Group, Aditi Bhagwat and Terence Lewis contemporary dance company and many more.