New York DJ, drummer and electric-tabla player Karsh Kale has a modest goal. He wants to make Indian classical music part of the contemporary pop vernacular in the US. Releasing his own solo ...

Bill Laswell must have known he was really onto something special when assembling this lineup, crossing some slick cyber-techno acts with endlessly open-minded Indian classical musicians such as Ustad ...

Two years ago this thing called Tabla Beat Science came our way from the Bill Laswell crew, and Tala Matrix was a sure sign that Laswell had not lost it after a few severe disasters. It brought ...

For tabla maestro Pt Yogesh Samsi, the weekend has been busy. A solo recital in Mumbai at the joint barsi of Ustad Amir Hussain Khan and Pt Arvind Mulgaonkar on Friday was followed by a show in Pune ...

Master tabla player Zakir Hussain was born with a destiny in music. His father Alla Rakha was a great tabla master and musical foil to Ravi Shankar for many years. Rakha raised Hussain to follow his ...

Tabla maestro and internationally acclaimed musician Ustad Zakir Hussain, who died in a San Francisco hospital on Sunday following multiple health issues including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, ...