The Bazantar – invented by Mark Deutsch – is a five-string acoustic bass, fitted with an additional twenty-nine sympathetic strings and four drone strings. It possesses a melodic range of over five octaves, while its sympathetic range spans four octaves. The extraordinary resonant sound of this instrument is like nothing I’ve ever heard before! Listen to a sample (mp3) from his new CD Fool.

Reviewers who have bought the CD have described it as “Trance inducing, hallucinogenic!” and “Transcendant Visionary Music: beyond the beyond”.