Suchita Parte says she crafted the album Designer Bliss to help tune the physical body with the astral one, and solicited the help of many accomplished musicians to create this blend of exotic Sanskrit shlokas, ancient Indian raagas and subtle modern influences. You can hear and feel the colorful Rajasthani Folk, ethnic Carnatic music, Himalayan melodies and much more. Two tracks, "Narayanan" and "Pandurangashtakam," were selected by Tandem Music Canada for their upcoming compilation Global Mystique album of female vocal artists from around the world.

Suchita has learnt from veterans like Pandit Govind Prasad Jaipurwale and Shri Suresh Wadkar. She did her diploma and B.A. in Hindustani Classical Vocal from the University of Mumbai under the able guidance of Pandit Firoz Dastur of Kirana Gharana and is presently learning from stalwarts like Shri Narayan Bodas and Shri Babanrao Haldankar. The University of Mumbai has honoured her for Ram Marathe and Ramchandra Chitalkar scholarships. She comes from the family with a musical heritage, being the niece of well-known singer Suman Kalyanpur and Shyama Chittar, and is the daughter of singer Mukta Mavinkurve. Suchita is now often invited to hold Indian music workshops in Antwerpen,Belgium and over there is collaborating with artists Marie Joelle and Kenny Clarys for an interesting album which will be a blend of east n west.

As a social worker Suchita was responsible for the Saptapadi album, an anti-dowry project.

Tushar Parte is the son of well respected composer, the late Jaykumar Parte, and is a professional "First Call" studio guitar player for Bollywood films. He's contributed to many movie scores including several hit songs for leading music directors. Tushar has accompanied legends like R.D. Burman, Asha Bhonsle, Pankaj Udhas on their world tours and albums. Internationally he has composed for artists as varied as pop singer Ella Blame for a "A Thousand Kisses"; Italian experimental singer Katya Sanna for her single "Ignago e Meritevole". He has arranged music for Celtic singer Esther Valentine for her song "The Missing Mantra" and has sung and collaborated for "Strumming Are The Sages" with American musicians of California Bluegrass Association, blending Indian music with American bluegrass music.He is honoured by being selected by Martin Clayton (ethnomusicologist, England) for his book on global guitar called "Guitar Cultures" released by Oxford. He has composed music for the film "Bollywood" based on Shashi Tharoor's novel and now he is arranging for a pop album by Dawn May from London. From July till August 2008 Tushar will be collaborating for an album with Janeen Leah from San Fransisco.

Designer Bliss