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Glass Beams

APPROVED BIO Glass Beams, the enigmatic Melbourne-based band, draws inspiration from their Indian heritage, infusing their serpentine psychedelia with cosmic instrumentation and worldly polyrhythms. Their debut 'Mirage,' self-recorded in a home studio, is a captivating fusion of 70s-era Indian classical, disco captured through the lens of DIY electronica. "I was looking for new energy & inspiration to write a bunch of new music. I recalled a childhood memory of my parents and I watching a DVD they had bought: 'Concert For George' (a tribute concert for George Harrison from the Beatles). George's long-time collaborator and friend Ravi Shankar put an Indian Orchestra together for that concert, and even though I hadn't even started playing music at the time that I watched this, the experience was very formative. My father was born in India and moved here when he was 17, and after recalling this memory I decided to look up musicians from my father's hometown and surrounding areas