Sitar Journeys

Dougal started his adventures in music as a bass player in rock bands on the Sydney scene in the early 90’s. After a move to London in ‘96 and a stint with Australian psychedelic band Om, found himself playing with Tribal Drift and spent the remainder of the decade touring around the globe.

Tribal Drift featured Cyrung who was one of the pioneers of didgeridoo in Goa during the 80’s and was attributed to bringing the instrument into the world of trance in the early 90’s.

In 2003 Dougal was a founding member of Australian band Loonaloop and featured as writer/performer/producer on their first 3 albums alongside many live shows.

The journey with the sitar began with a gift from India. The sitar stayed in its box until Dougal found sitar guru Darshan Kumari in Amsterdam around 2012 and began to study.

He has since opened the show for Dutch band My Baby with both sitar and didge on their Shamanaid tour in 2016/7 and slowly found the confidence to expand a 10 min set to a full show. More recently Dougal has played in 2022 and ‘23 on Ozora festival with 2 x 1.5 hour journeys from ambient to dance-floor and will again play 2 sets there in ‘24. In December 2023 Dougal performed a full set to a sold out Paradiso Amsterdam, again supporting My Baby and is now being booked for festivals and events around Europe in 2024. There is an album in the making and so the journey continues….

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