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...very classy quartettakes on one of Bollywood composer R.D. Burman's trashiest melodies, and the musicians are wise enough to keep the meticulousness of their playing from overwhelming the main attraction--the exuberant juxtaposition of Indian tabla, Chinese lute and rock rhythm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 10 Songs for Late Summer | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

...Among the boy singers, Mirwais is tops, though he has a 14-year-old rival, Wali Fateh Ali Khan, a favorite of former King Zahir Shah. But among the common folk, Mirwais is considered the best. He and his three-piece band?a tabla drummer and rabab and harmonium players?were booked every night during the three-month wedding season prior to the holy month of Ramadan, when the partying stops. His crowning achievement came last September, when he won a famous singing contest at Kabul's Park Cinema. That day, Mirwais appeared in an immaculate white suit, handling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kabul's New Sensation | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...nearby trees and rosebushes with streamers of ripped-out audiotape. (Brave technicians, however, sealed thousands of Afghan records and tapes behind a false wall at the studio, which the Taliban never found.) "We were afraid that the Taliban would kill us," recalls Mirwais' older brother Nur-ul-Haq, a tabla player who says dozens of artists were beaten in public by Taliban zealots. So the family buried their musical instruments under a chicken coop in the garden. Another brother left to sell flowers in Iran, while Nur-ul-Haq hawked carpets in Pakistan. Mirwais, who was just 5 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kabul's New Sensation | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...knees over his shoulders, whirling him and causing him to fly out like an amusement park ride. The musical acts share a similar intensity, such as the three-on-three drum and voice battle known as “tukda” that concludes the act by the tabla ensemble...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis and Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: On the Radar | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

...Oxford, becomes star! He was born in Madras, on January 6, 1966, with a Bollywood star's soundalike name, A.S. Dileep Kumar. His musician father died when the boy was nine, and to support his family this precocious child left home to become a touring tyro musician with tabla maestro Zakir Hussain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Isn't It Rahmantic? | 1/1/2005 | See Source »

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