Your Music 4 - Zakir Hussein retrospective pt.1

Track list for Your Music 4

Today we'll hear the first in a two-part series - a partial retrospective on the work of the phenomenal percussionist Zakhir Hussain. Hussain is one of the world's most acclaimed Tabla masters - the Tabla is a traditional percussion instrument from India that consists of two or more hand drums that are tuned like kettle drums so that the tones each one produces are complimentary. The higher pitched Tabla drums often have a sound somewhat like rain drops falling on a metal roof while the lower pitched drums individual notes can be modulated by varying the pressure on the head of the drum exerted by the palm of the hand which rests constantly on the drum's edge so that it sounds like an African talking drum. Most non-Asian Americans were introduced to these sounds as well as to another Indian classical instrument, the Sitar when the Beatles George Harrisson began to incorporate them in to popular hits like Norwegian Wood and Within You And Without You in the mid 1960's. Indeed Hussein collaborated with Harrisson later in their careers.
1) "We Want to be Free" by the group Shanti from their only recording simply titled "Shanti" in 1971 on the Atlantic Records label.
2)1984 recording by another of the groups Hussain founded, the Rhythm Experience with a cut called "Lineage".
3) "Nines Over Easy" from the same CD, a piece Hussain composed with band member Vince Delgado. That was re-released in 1991 on the Moment label.
4)"JOY" by the John McGlaughlin, Zakir Hussain collaboration Shakti from a 1977 CBS/Sony LP.
5,6, 7 )Tabla Beat Science eaturing Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell, formerly of the Greatful Dead - also Usted Sultan Khan and the hip hop ensemble Midival Pundits. The first track was called "BIOTECH" from the 2000 Palm Pictures release TALA MATRIX. Then we heard Ap Ke Baras from a live performance CD released in 2002 also by Palm Pictures and lastly the title track from the first CD Tala Matrix.

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