{ "ok" : true, "artist" : { "name" : "Sandeep Bhandari", "page" : "sandeep_bhandari", "description" : "Ethnic ambiance combined with electronic moods and grooves", "location" : "Ontario, Canada", "bio" : "\"It's difficult to say what intrigues me more, creating sound or recording it.\"\n\nAs a multi-instrumentalist trained in guitar, piano, and percussion, Sandeep Bhandari has written and recorded his own music for three decades. As he moved in and out of rock bands through his formative years, his desire for record engineering began.\n\n\"It was an average brownstone on an average street in Hamilton (Ont. Canada), but every musician in the city knew about the amazing records that were recorded there.\"\n\nAfter obtaining a Bachelors Degree, Sandeep took residency as a studio engineer at Grant Avenue Studio, the famed recording facility built by Bob and Daniel Lanois. He spent two years listening, learning and recording some of the best musicians in the world including Gordon Lightfoot, Ani DiFranco, Bruce Cockburn, Daniel Lanois, Sarah Harmer.\n\n\"By chance, my music came across the desk of an influential TV producer, and that's how composing for television began.\"\n\nThrough the mid-nineties, Sandeep wrote music for several national and international television shows including Fashion Television, FlashForward, and Departures. During this period he continued to play live music with local musicians throughout Canada.\n\n\"I was completely transfixed by British bands that put their own spin on American hip-hop and electronic music. Also, home studio technology was developing quickly and much of the innovative electronic music was coming from independent artists on small labels.\"\n\nThe bands coming from places like Bristol, England influenced his own music and the sounds of the Asian Underground helped shape his musical sensibilities. Creating textures from sounds manipulated through digital processing equipment, and layering those ideas with live instruments was the basis for a new approach to writing and recording. With each release, his music was sought after for TV and Film licensing.\n\n\"I had composed quite a bit of music for them, so Music Supervisor seemed like a natural progression\"\n\nBy 2011, Sandeep was music supervising TV shows in Canada and continues to write and license his own tracks for a myriad of media projects.", "photo" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/img/sandeep_bhandari.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/sandeep_bhandari/", "albums" : [{ "sku" : "sandeep-soundsguru", "name" : "Sounds of Guru Shishya", "artist" : { "name" : "Sandeep Bhandari", "page" : "sandeep_bhandari" }, "release_date" : "2014-09-08", "genres" : ["Electronica","World"], "vocals" : "vocals", "moods" : ["hypnotic","meditative","spiritual","dreamy","exotic","reflective"], "uses" : ["documentary","travel","nature documentary","meditation or yoga","spa or massage","study or focus"], "energy" : 3, "instrumentation" : ["electronic beats","eastern rhythms","warm synths","organic textures","hazy grooves"], "sounds_like" : [], "summary" : "An instrumental world-electronic album blending pulsing western electronics with eastern rhythms and warm, hazy grooves—ideal for reflective, atmospheric projects like documentaries, travel videos, or meditation.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Sandeep%20Bhandari/Sounds%20of%20Guru%20Shishya/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/sandeep-soundsguru/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/sandeep-soundsguru", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=sandeep-soundsguru" },{ "sku" : "sandeep-divetwo", "name" : "Dive Volume 2", "artist" : { "name" : "Sandeep Bhandari", "page" : "sandeep_bhandari" }, "release_date" : "2014-08-23", "genres" : ["Electronica","Electro Rock","Ambient"], "vocals" : "vocals", "moods" : ["dreamy","meditative","mysterious","reflective","calm","ethereal"], "uses" : ["nature documentary","travel","meditation or yoga","spa or massage","study or focus","podcast background"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["finger-picked guitars","rhodes piano","moog synths","bells","live and programmed instrumentation"], "sounds_like" : [], "summary" : "Instrumental downtempo/ambient electro-acoustic music blending ethnic ambiance with electronic moods, ideal for calming, reflective, or nature-themed projects.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Sandeep%20Bhandari/Dive%20Volume%202/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/sandeep-divetwo/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/sandeep-divetwo", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=sandeep-divetwo" },{ "sku" : "sandeep-diveone", "name" : "Dive Volume 1", "artist" : { "name" : "Sandeep Bhandari", "page" : "sandeep_bhandari" }, "release_date" : "2014-03-09", "genres" : ["Electronica","Downtempo","Folk"], "vocals" : "instrumental", "moods" : ["dreamy","calm","meditative","ethereal","reflective","melancholic"], "uses" : ["nature documentary","meditation or yoga","spa or massage","study or focus","podcast background","emotional storytelling"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["electronic beats","acoustic guitars","pianos","bells","folk instruments","soft textures"], "sounds_like" : [], "summary" : "A dreamy, calm downtempo instrumental album blending electronic moods with ethnic ambiance and acoustic folk elements, ideal for nature documentaries, meditation, and reflective podcast backgrounds.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Sandeep%20Bhandari/Dive%20Volume%201/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/sandeep-diveone/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/sandeep-diveone", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=sandeep-diveone" }] }, "license" : { "music_license" : "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0)", "music_license_url" : "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/", "listening" : "Stream the free previews, or buy an album for $8 to download it in MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, OGG or WAV. 100% of the price goes to the musician.", "non_commercial" : "Non-commercial projects may use the music under CC BY-NC-SA 1.0: credit the artist and Magnatune, and share alike.", "projects" : "Magnatune members may use any Magnatune music in their projects, commercial or not (videos, films, podcasts, games, apps, websites, adverts), including work for clients, under the Magnatune Project Licence. Projects released while a member stay licensed for good; new projects need an active membership. Credit is required. TV or radio broadcast, cinema, and background music in shops, restaurants or on-hold lines are not included: license those from the musician. Membership: $10/month, $99/year or $299 lifetime; agents can buy one themselves with MPP at /api/member-pass ($10 month, $99 year, $299 lifetime, one-off).", "projects_status" : "available", "projects_signup" : "https://magnatune.com/member/signup", "royalty_free" : "Membership is royalty-free licensing: no per-video, per-download or per-view fees, for every project created and released while a member.", "youtube" : "YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, podcasts: members may use the clean songs in monetized videos. Members register their YouTube channel (the set_youtube_channel MCP tool, or their account page) so YouTube's Content ID doesn't claim their videos. The free versions carry a spoken Magnatune voice and are non-commercial (CC BY-NC-SA), so they're not for monetized channels or client work.", "details" : "https://magnatune.com/info/licensing", "how_to_credit" : "Name the artist and \"Magnatune\", with a link to the album's web_url." } }