Rainer & Siddharth Gautam

Siddharth Gautam hails from Delhi but has been based in Bangalore for the last few years and has been playing in and around the city with his Gypsy jazz act, The Django twins. He has also played guitars on a series of Malayalam and Kannada films and sessioned regularly with some of the most established acts of the country such as Thermal and a Quarter, The Bluefrog Tribute Band, and Opposite Sex amongst others.

As an international and renowned saxophonist, arranger and composer, Rainer Pusch has always been interested in trying out new kinds of music. His spectrum ranges from a jazz background obtained during his studies with George Coleman, Jerry Bergonzi, at the Berklee College of Music (Boston) to various performances with jazz, funk, latin and pop bands over the years. He worked beneath many others with Art Farmer, Horace Parlan, John Betsch, Pony Poindexter. Beside his studies in Carnatic music, taking vocal lessons from S. Rajaram,  director and teacher of the Kalakshetra College of Fine Arts, Chennai, Madurai G. S. Mani and Selva Ganesh, Rainer Puschs manifold interests brought him to collaborate repeatedly with many famed Indian musicians such as the Mumbai based guitarists Keith and Karl Peters, with Louis Banks, Dr. Mysore Manjunath, Sanjay Divecha and Ranjit Barot within the scope of Jazz and Indo-Jazz Fusion projects. Further collaborations included recordings with A.R. Rahman and Ramnath Gopalnat as well as many gigs with Ganesh Kumar, Selva Ganesh, Dr. Balamuralikrishnan, and Amit Heri, Manickam Yogeswaran.