Setar plus tabla = good music
Raymond says: "I’m not a cultural purist by any stretch of the imagination, so I was delighted by this fantastic performance by Massoud Shaari on the setar (not to be confused with the Indian sitar) and Darshan Anand on one of my favorite instruments of all time — the tabla."
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Also offering a wonderful fusion of Persian and Indian music is the group Ghazal, esp. their album "As Night Falls on the Silk Road."
Cool -- I wasn't aware of Ghazal. I'll have to check them out.
The topic of tablas reminds me of the dynamite-looking digital tanpuras Radel is putting out. I keep hoping that some kids will get hold of these and abuse them like 303's. There are some new musical genres lurking in those cheap plastic cases.
Excellent video, I always love seeing instruments blended in new ways.
Danny Carey of Tool uses the tabla sound on a few of their newer songs to great effect, though I believe it's sampled onto an electronic drum for his use.
That sounds quite lovely. ^_^
Well, and then there's tabla-n-bass, like this.
Fritz, "Riyaz Master Professional" also offers an electronic tabla, though I don't know how natural it would feel to click some buttons and turn some dials in order to reproduce the sounds you'd normally get by actually playing the instrument.
If you follow this link and scroll half-way down the page, you'll see the "Electronic TABLA" box.
Shameless bit of self-promotion: A short clip from last Friday's Gig at club Fluxee (Turku, Finland): Tervakello vs. VJ Interkosmos.
Udu drums, rainsticks, sax, flute, didgeridoo, sham drum, analog synths (and OpenTZT visuals).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AFt6UsmUSeA
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Raymond, What I like about electronic drum machines is how UN-natural they are. The precursors to drum'n'bass came from taking drum machines and arbitrarily turning the speed dials to eleven, generating what amounted to meta-breakbeats (what had been a whole measure suddenly became a single beat.) It's the usual interface-hacker's credo (kind of like torturing a tamagotchi): you systematically manipulate all the parameters into pathological territory and see what comes out. The fact that the machines were designed to emulate other things doesn't mean emulation is all they can do.
Ah, I see, Fritz.
As long as you aren't talking about waterboarding a tamagotchi, I totally get what you're saying.
In that respect, I haven't run across anything (that I know of anyway) that manipulates the natural sounds of the tabla in such a way. Could be interesting.
Have some fun and play the tabla online:
http://www.talastudio.com/tabla.html