Pandit Kamalesh Maitra - Tabla Tarang

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So my response won't get lost in the "what are you listening to thread", I'm starting a new one.

Pandit Kamalesh Maitra - Tabla Tarang

I have a couple of CDs by him. Kool stuff (for folks who don't know what Tabla Tarang is: it's a set of tablas tuned to a scale, he plays raga on tuned percussion).

I've only heard this one disc. Which of the others would you recommend first?

My guess is that you have Smithsonian/Folkways SF40436.

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...or Wergo SM 1602-2...

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...and then there's also EMI CDNF 150137:

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[John B]

I've got the Folkways disc. Are all three of these the same?

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I've got the Folkways disc. Are all three of these the same?

Same instruments, different ragas.

[.:.impossible]

I have the Folkways recording. This is incredible music. I hope the tradition survives long past Pandit Kamalesh Maitra.

[John B]

I've got the Folkways disc.  Are all three of these the same?

Same instruments, different ragas.

excellent! I'll add them to "the list."

[7/4]

I was searching around and it seems like the Folkways is easy to find.

You can find the Wergo at Vista India.

[7/4]

http://www.shrimatis.com/ has the EMI.

[chandra]

He is accompanied by another Tabla!! ( just an amusing observation ). This is good stuff and not too many people do this.

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Chandra,

You have to keep in mind, Tabla Tarang is a melodic percussion instrument. Trilok accompanies him as a rhythmic percussionist. It sounds totally natural. If you haven't heard this, you definitely have a strong recommendation from me! This is beautiful human music ancient and of the moment.

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Sanjeev Kanitkar Edited April 9, 2005 by 7/4

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Tabla Tarang - Rack Mountable Tablas and Bayas

[chandra]

You have to keep in mind, Tabla Tarang is a melodic percussion instrument. Trilok accompanies him as a rhythmic percussionist. It sounds totally natural. If you haven't heard this, you definitely have a strong recommendation from me! This is beautiful human music ancient and of the moment.

Understood. I have listened to bits of it before, I will have to get the CD and get into it lot more.

Here is another such thing along the same lines, called Jalatharangam ( tuned water bowls). It is intriguing as well.

[7/4]

You have to keep in mind, Tabla Tarang is a melodic percussion instrument. Trilok accompanies him as a rhythmic percussionist. It sounds totally natural. If you haven't heard this, you definitely have a strong recommendation from me! This is beautiful human music ancient and of the moment.

Understood. I have listened to bits of it before, I will have to get the CD and get into it lot more.

Here is another such thing along the same lines, called Jalatharangam ( tuned water bowls). It is intriguing as well.

Aw...you beat me to it. I was going to mention them too.

I have at least one CD of that music, if not more. I'll dig them out and scan the covers.

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Himangshu Biswas & Dulal Roy - Jugalbandi (EMI-RPG CDNF 50153)

Flute & Jaltarang

no tabla player listed.

a Jugalbandi is a duet. To my ears, this sounds like Hindustani (North Indian) music.

A very cool sounding CD.

edited to add comments.

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[7/4]

I did a bit of google. Apparently Himangshu Biswas is the Jaltrang player. He also plays Santoor (hammered dulcimer, another South Asian tuned percussion instrument) on other recordings.

[Tom Storer]

Tabla Tarang sounds like a nice idea. Is it an ancient tradition, or a recent innovation? (Recent in the context of Indian classical music meaning "sometime in the last hundred years"...)

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Tabla Tarang sounds like a nice idea. Is it an ancient tradition, or a recent innovation? (Recent in the context of Indian classical music meaning "sometime in the last hundred years"...)

According to the Folkways book, "A rather recent innovation amongst the myrad Indian drums, the tabla tarang to first known to have existed as an instrument in Maharrashtra in the late 1800's..."

Still, I get the feeling it's quite a rare instrument.

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Duke Ellington and tabla tarang!

Related NYTimes article.

[Joe G]

How about that!

[WD45]

jaltarang recital clip on YouTube -- stumbled across this the other day:

[.:.impossible]

awesome photo

[seeline]

many thanks for the links, CD title suggestions, etc.!