Tombak In The Spotlight On Between Hands
Kaveh Mahmudiyan — Between Hands (Global Sonics, 2025) Kaveh Mahmudiyan’s first solo album, Between Hands presents his own compositions with the tombak (Persian goblet-shaped drum).…
Artist Profiles: Shailendra Mishra
Shailendra Mishra is an award-winning Indian Tabla player who performs jugalbandi concerts of North &South Styles of Indian music as well as fusion music. He…
Artist Profiles: Sanju Sahai
Sanju Sahai, also known as Vishnu, is currently one of the finest and most sought after tabla players. He is the direct descendant of Pandit…
Artist Profiles: Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
Professor Sanjoy Bandopadhyay was born on September 16, 1954. He is a virtuoso of the sitar and is specialized in Hindustani instrumental music. Sanjoy started…
Artist Profiles: Sanjeeb Sircar
Sanjeeb Sircar is a sitar player based in New Delhi, India. He has over 20 years of experience playing and teaching the instrument at a…
Artist Profiles: S. Sowmya
S. Sowmya was born onApril 16, 1969. A Carnatic musician by profession, Sowmya’s life has been immersed in melody from the very beginning. Growing up…
Artist Profiles: Sandip Chatterjee
Encouraged by his father, Asoke Kumar Chatterjee, a distinguished international footballer, Sandip Chatterjee was accepted, at the age of eight, as a pupil by the…
World Fusion Ensemble Ancient Future to Perform in Las Vegas
The ground-breaking world fusion group Ancient Future will perform as a trio on Saturday, September 8, 2018 at the Winchester Cultural Center in Las Vegas,…
An Instructive Representation of Black Cowboy Music
Dom Flemons – Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2018) Celebrated multi-instrumentalist, singer and musicologist Dom Flemons, a founding of the seminal Carolina Chocolate Drops,…
Artist Profiles: Samir Chatterjee
Pandit Samir Chatterjee studied tabla initially with Amalesh Chatterjee, and later with Shyamal Bose, so that he is able to combine the styles of both…
Artist Profiles: Kalakan
Kalakan is a band from the northern Basque country (France) featuring Thierry Biscary, Jamixel Bereau and Xan Errotabehere. Its style consists of minimalist arrangements (vocals,…