Lionel Dentan (Dasaz) has been playing music since an early age he studied guitar at the Lausanne Classical Conservatory and then the Turkish saz from Mousto Mustafa. He then moved to India to live there in 1998. At the same time he started sitar and Rebaab, learning in the Vilayat Khan style. He has performed with his wife Namrata Pamnani in France, Switzerland and India. He has learned sitar with different masters since 1999. Lionel has been working with electronic music since 1992 , always experimenting with different means of sounds. He has performed experimental electronic music in Russia, France, Switzerland, India and collaborated with many artists from all over the world. He has always brought new directions and new forms in his quest for sounds. Lionel has created Da-Saz in 1999. They have released music cds with Phat Phishes in Mumbai, and also on their own. Also he has been working with Ish ( sound reasons) and VTOL in Russia. Lionel is also an avid electronic musician specialized in analog and modular synthesizer