Blackstratblues is a musical project of Warren Mendonsa, an Indian guitarist and composer based out of
Auckland
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, New Zealand. Earlier Blackstratblues albums were solo efforts, and more recent releases have been group collaborations—all self-released by Mendonsa. The project has published six studio albums and two live albums as of .
Mendonsa previously played lead guitar in the Indian rock band
Zero
0 (zero) is a number representing an empty quantity. In place-value notation
Positional notation (or place-value notation, or positional numeral system) usually denotes the extension to any base of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system (or ...
. He is the nephew of Bollywood composer
Loy Mendonsa
Loy Mendonsa is an Indian music director and part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio which consist of himself, Shankar Mahadevan and Ehsaan Noorani. Before becoming a music composer, he played piano and keyboards for famous Indian music compose ...
of
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy () is an Indian musical trio consisting of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa. They have composed music for over 50 soundtracks across five languages: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and English. Amongst t ...
fame.
Career
In 1998, Mendonsa formed the rock band
Zero
0 (zero) is a number representing an empty quantity. In place-value notation
Positional notation (or place-value notation, or positional numeral system) usually denotes the extension to any base of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system (or ...
, together with Rajeev Talwar, Sidd Coutto, and Girish Talwar, releasing three studio albums between 2000 and 2005.
In late 2004, Mendonsa moved to
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...
, New Zealand, thereby quitting Zero. He began releasing songs online as a solo artist, and in April 2007, he issued his debut album, ''Nights in Shining Karma'', under the moniker Blackstratblues.
Discography
Studio albums
* ''Nights in Shining Karma'' (2007)
* ''The New Album'' (2009)
* ''The Universe Has a Strange Sense of Humour'' (2015)
* ''The Last Analog Generation'' (2017)
* ''When It's Time'' (2019)
* ''Hindsight Is 2020'' (2021)
Live albums
* ''L.I/O.V.E. Vol. I'' (2022)
* ''L.I/O.V.E. Vol. II'' (2023)
References
External links
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Indian guitarists
New Zealand guitarists
New Zealand male guitarists
Blues rock musicians
1979 births
Living people
21st-century guitarists
21st-century male musicians