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Inspiration for an Indian summer

Simon Thacker has never been to India but through the miracle of the internet it's almost as if he lives there.

Get this classical guitarist from the village of Pencaitland in East Lothian onto the powers of YouTube and you’ll be regaled with enthusiastic endorsements of his latest favourites, some of which are so far off the mainstream that even the hugely resourceful Indian musicians who join Thacker in his Svara-Kanti group are taken aback by his discoveries.