In Concert Part 2 Ashwin Batish-Sitar, Zakir Hussain-Tabla

yeah, so I got this video andit takes a while to get to my place, butthere's this great amount of perfecttabla mastery on the tape, a totallyterrific amount, twenty minutes doesZakir hammer away, and he loves it, reallygets into it. problem is, there's this dude --a sunny California golden boy with a perpetual grin --and he plays the tamboura, terrific, but while Zakirdoes his thang at the beginning, for twenty minutesyou-the-viewer gotta look at this white dude's gleamingporcelain mug. ugh, I say. but baby it ain't that bad, ain'tall that much of a drag. no sir.the footage is fine, lots o' close-ups. Zakir has got Johann Bach's organ music beat by a mile when it comes to virtuosity,man, I tell ya. be sure to type out resumes and such before youview this piece of work , cuz after you watch itfor the fourteenth time you'llwanna"drop out" for a while and enroll in the Toronto Sitar Schoolto learnbe completely immersed in the wonderthat isthe Indian raga.