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Shubh Saran

Producer + Audio Editor + Guitarist 

I'm a Brooklyn, NY based guitarist & producer. I create original music, edit audio, mix podcasts, and play guitar on the road

Logic Pro X | Pro Tools | Ableton

Being Anybody Else (EP) | 2024 | self produced

Being Anybody Else is a five song EP featuring my five-piece band – guitar, bass, two saxophones and drums. This loud metal-jazz-fusion record was recorded at Studio G in Brooklyn & self produced in my home studio and while on the road. With two music videos shot entirely on film, the EP is about wanting to be literally anyone else except myself, which ironically is the most universal feeling. The first single To Be is a plea to the listener to just be yourself – it's hard, it takes time, but it's worth it. 

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inglish (album) | 2021 | self produced

A multi-layered album that explores concepts of identity, inglish makes use of Indian and Middle Eastern instrumentation while also expanding the role of modular synthesizers. The album is a longform message that pays tribute to the difficult process of assimilating while embracing your own culture.

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Previous releases

Hmayra (album) | 2017

Becoming (EP) | 2020

H.A.D.D (EP) | 2018

All self produced & original music released over the past 7 years

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Mike Birbiglia's Working it Out (podcast) 
Audio editor & mix engineer 
2021 - present

For the past three years, I've been the mix engineer & audio editor for award winning comedian Mike Birbiglia's podcast. Each week Mike welcomes a different comedian or creator and together they work out original, untested material.

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Offstage with Shubh Saran (podcast) 
Producer, host, editor
2021 - 2022

In 2021, I created my own podcast in conjunction with the release of my 2021 album inglish. I interviewed over 30 musicians and spoke to them about their identity in music, as I learned to define my own. I edited, hosted and scored the podcast, creating a unique sound design for each episode. 

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Yavum (single) | 2020
Producer, arranger

In 2020 I produced Yavum, a single by award winning vocalist and flautist Rasika Shekar.  A song that means 'everything' in Tamil, Rasika and I worked on this song remotely during the throws of the pandemic while she was in Mumbai and I was in New York.

I've Lost It (single) | 2022
Editor

In 2021, I edited & co-produced I've Lost It, a collaborative single by The NYChillharmonic & Aberdeen. I also play guitar in both bands. 

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Touring & Live tech

I've been touring internationally with my band for the past six years, headlining across the US, Canada, Mexico and India. Earlier this year I built an in-ear monitor rig to ensure seamless live track playback on ableton synced with guitar patch changes on my Quad Cortex amp simulator. I love finding ways to make touring tech more efficient and this rig is a step further in that direction. 

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Artist Bio

Guitar World’s “The shred chameleon”, Shubh Saran is a New York-based guitarist, composer, and producer who has performed globally with his band. Having grown up in six different countries, his music has been shaped by a mixture of influences. Saran’s songs fuse sounds from progressive rock and fusion with classical and contemporary Indian music. Pitchfork describes his music “a heartfelt exploration of the ups and downs of being part of the world’s fastest-growing floating tribe—part global citizen, part cultural refugee,” and named the album to its list of Best Jazz and Experimental Music of 2021. In September 2024, he released his fifth record, an EP entitled Being Anybody Else.

Press

Guitar World Magazine

"Saran’s guitar approach draws from blink-182 and Allan Holdsworth in equal measure – and his unique solos have blown his shred peers’ minds"

Rolling Stone India

"Shubh Saran navigates culture through sound"

Pitchfork

"Inglish is a heartfelt exploration of the ups and downs of being part of the world’s fastest-growing floating tribe—part global citizen, part cultural refugee."

Pitchfork

Best-of List

"With these discrete elements, Saran forms a language all his own."

Times of India

"An alumnus of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Saran often touches on themes of identity and ethnicity in his music"

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