533 Souls Festival | Promo | Shahbaz Hussain - Tabla solo

#tabla #Indianclassicalmusic #musicofindia 533 Souls Festival - ’FREE view on YouTube’ ends in a few days! Here’s an excerpt from the festival where in an expansive rhythmic imagination, Shahbaz Hussain presents the 7-beat cycle of Rupak taal in a brilliant solo presentation. Trained in primarily two styles of tabla playing, Hussain merges the power and precision of the Delhi gharana and the intricacy and richness of the Punjab gharana with his own sensitivity to weave an eclectic style into his presentations. Hussain carves the bols with care, taking time to build the energy from stoic to a fluttering array of charming compositions, all played out with ease and palpable passion. Hussain’s father and first guru Ustad Mumtaz Khan was a vocalist who infused in him at an early age the transcendental power of nuanced tabla playing. Perhaps that is what makes his solos exquisite and often cloying, even when he is voraciously playing his qaydas at an el