In the 20th episode of the series on tabla accompaniment to Hindustani music and dance, we discuss the role of the tabla player while accompanying the tarana, a compositional form for vocal music that ...

The reverberation of sound creates its own language. This language forms the basis of all instruments, which develop the shades of sound on a broader spectrum. The late tabla maestro, Pandit Shankar ...

That’s because the description could just as well apply to the tabla, the most Indian of instruments, which, nevertheless, has a foreign history. And renowned percussionist Taufiq Qureshi explores ...

Born into a family of renowned musicians, Ishan Ghosh is the gifted son/disciple of Pt. Nayan Ghosh who is an equally proficient tabla and sitar maestro. The fact, with its distinct advantages, stood ...

Growing up in Jaipur, Ilyas Raphael Khan was exposed to traditional tabla playing through his grandfather, and started learning at the age of five. When he was 10, he heard the contemporary vocal ...