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Niran Dasika

Niran Dasika is a trumpeter, improviser, composer, electronic musician, and educator whose work connects Melbourne with long-running Japanese collaborations.

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Career Overview

About Niran Dasika

Dasika’s official biography identifies a Melbourne-based trumpeter, improviser, and composer whose work crosses jazz, free improvisation, and electronic music. It also documents regular activity in Japan after several years living there and eight albums as a bandleader.[1]

His recording guide moves from the quartet debut Manticore (Phantom) through collaborations with pianist Sumire Kuribayashi, a three-volume Assorted Drone Music series, solo processing, and the acoustic trio album Life Forms. The changing formats make electronics and improvisation parallel parts of the catalog.[1][2][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

Niran Dasika leader groups

Dasika’s eight-album leader history uses quartet, trio, duo, and solo formats across Australia and Japan.[1][2]

Co-leader, trumpeter, and composer

Sumire Kuribayashi collaborations

Kiri, Suzaku, and Mizuchi document Dasika’s continuing work with the Japanese pianist in duo and quartet settings.[2]

Trumpeter, electronic musician, and producer

Solo electronics and Assorted Drone Music

Dasika’s solo and remote-collaboration releases combine trumpet with live sampling, synthesis, drum machines, and processing.[1][2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2015

Manticore (Phantom)

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

Dasika’s leader debut presents his original music in a trumpet, guitar, bass, and drums quartet.[2][3]

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2024

Mizuchi

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

Recorded in Tokyo, Mizuchi joins Dasika with Sumire Kuribayashi, Takashi Sugawa, and Shun Ishiwaka.[2][3]

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2025

Life Forms

Trio leader, trumpeter, and composer

The acoustic trio album places Dasika with pianist Andrea Keller and bassist Helen Svoboda.[1][2][3]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official Bandcamp catalog

Hear Dasika’s jazz, improvised, electronic, and Japan-recorded projects with complete credits.

Official music guide

Browse Dasika’s album chronology, personnel, recording notes, and artist-authorized listening links.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Mon, Sep 28, 7:30 PM

Holly Moore – FLOOD

The JazzLab · Melbourne

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Mon, Oct 5, 7:30 PM

Transients+: Dasika/Carbo/Beck/Keller

The JazzLab · Melbourne

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Evidence-Based Connections

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Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography and eight-album leader history

    Niran Dasika

  2. [2] Official album chronology and personnel

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  3. [3] Artist-authorized recording catalog

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