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Vladiswar Nadishana is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and recording producer from Siberia, who creates his own unique and innovative approach to world fusion music - the creative synthesis of different musical traditions of the world on the basis of contemporary technologies. He plays on more than 100 instruments of the world, including self-created ones.

He elaborated the unique playing technique on each of his instruments and his own approach to advanced digital audio editing called "sound microsurgery".

In 1990 along with studying in Sankt-Petersburg V. Nadishana began his self-education in playing guitar. Then he became seriously interested in ethnic music and mastered himself other instruments: sitar, mandola, chanzy, bouzouki, jew's harp, kou xiang, khomus, morsing, ethnic percussion (darabuka, djembe, kalangu, udu, cajon, frame drums, berimbao); winds (bansuri, quena, overtone flutes, kalyuka, zhaleyka, gayda, hu-lu-si, duduk, bawu, tsaaj nplaim), fretless bass. Besides he has created some experimental musical instruments: dzuddahord, pruzhingum, plastrimbaphon, rablorrum, ghostcatcher, pin-sansa, rod-spring gamelan, banbang etc.

During his living in small village in South of Siberia V. Nadishana established "Sound Microsurgery Department" (SMD). SMD is a creative research laboratory handling a wide variety of projects: from mastering unknown ancient musical instruments to elaborating new creative methods of work with digital audio.

Nadishana Trio (Nadishana - Shehan - Metz)

Nadishana with Dzuddahord

Together with european innovative luthiers Nadishana elaborated several hybrid experimental instruments such as futujara, hybrid kaval and dzuddahord.

Nadishana renovated and developed the playing technique on several instruments. In fact some of them were museum pieces and he gave them a new birth. For example he developed the tradition of playing on russian overtone flute kalyuka and enhanced it's construction. He also has elaborated a new approach of playing on chinese kou xiang and jew's harp sets and has incorporated very rare Hmong free reed flute tsaaj nplaim into ethno-jazz arrangements etc.

Using a multi-track overdubbing method V. Nadishana created some solo albums in his own studio.
V. Nadishana possesses a huge collection of musical instruments (more than 200) from different parts of the world.

Since 2005 Nadishana lives in Berlin where he works at several projects. The main of them are:
Nadishana Trio (myspace.com/NadishanaTrio) feat. two exceptional musicians Steve Shehan and Armin Metz),
the band which is playing modern ethnic music,
Nadisuna Duo (Raphael De Cock - Nadishana) , and the solo programm in which he presents about 20 rare ethnic instruments of the world.