Maximum City. Maximum Decibels.
Showing posts with label Mumbai Drummers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mumbai Drummers. Show all posts
Western Express Highway
Maximum Decibels. Maximum City.
If you go to desolate places in Mumbai, desolate by Mumbai standards that is, you will hear the rumbling echoes of drums. These are the drummers of Mumbai preparing for the upcoming festivals.
In you look closely at the boys on the pipelines, there are kids playing drums on branch pipeline that goes towards Mahim
Filterpada
Drummers of Mumbai Series: Future drummers and Ganpati Idol makers of Mumbai.
Children can create things out of anything. Here they recreate the the original joy of the first maker of the Ganpati idol and the person with a stick to create the music that we can all dance to.
M Ward
Work Space Mumbai: DJs of Mumbai
This little fellow was standing in front of a tower of speakers with a box that was jumping up and down in his hand because of the deafening sound.
Mahim
Work Space Mumbai: Drummers of Mumbai.
I ran into these guys when my friends at Flying Cursor wanted to make short clips to encourage people to run for a reason at the Mumbai Marathon. Here's the film. And that's me with a phone.
The Bombay Native Band.
When we talked to the band members we realised that The Bombay Native Band is one of the biggest bands in Mumbai with over a hundred musicians. They operate from Pydhonie but perform all over Mumbai. I didn't realise that the Band Business was as organised into large entities like this!
Sion-Trombay Road
While we old farts complain about the 120 decibels of ear splitting noise, the kids have a different view of the drummers who rock the city during Ganpati. You see kids in every corner of the city practicing beats across the city.
Vashi + Thane E
Maximum Decibels
We have proved to the world that we can collectively touch 120+ decibels and maintain that level for hours.
Mahim Causeway
Zakir Bhai
Work Space Mumbai: Haridas Vhatkar - Tabla Maker to Ustad Zakir Hussain
When it pours, the accumulated rain water on the crumbling Mahim Causeway that connects the richest pieces of real estate in India is no different from the dark juice that the city leaks and flows under the causeway and into the Arabian Sea.
A feet below the level of the narrow footpath on the Causeway are a row of tightly packed huts mostly inhabited by fisherfolks. Each house with a half-a-foot-high plank at the door to keep the rain water from coming and flooding their homes.
One such plank also keep rain water from coming in and flooding the tablas that are meant for Ustad Zakir Hussain.
This hovel without a signboard is the work-space of Haridas Vhatkar, the Ustad's Ustad when it comes to tabla making. It's not just Zakir Hussain that he supplies his creations to, it's the who's who, who with their magic fingers are beating the star of this century - digital perfection, black and blue.
In the corner of his one-room workshop is a small transistor like electronic machine that is playing a single perfect note as Haridas tunes Zakir Hussain's tabla. His three assistants work on other tablas, most of them with names of someone famous scribbled with a ball point pen on the corner of the skin.
When it pours, the accumulated rain water on the crumbling Mahim Causeway that connects the richest pieces of real estate in India is no different from the dark juice that the city leaks and flows under the causeway and into the Arabian Sea.
A feet below the level of the narrow footpath on the Causeway are a row of tightly packed huts mostly inhabited by fisherfolks. Each house with a half-a-foot-high plank at the door to keep the rain water from coming and flooding their homes.
One such plank also keep rain water from coming in and flooding the tablas that are meant for Ustad Zakir Hussain.
This hovel without a signboard is the work-space of Haridas Vhatkar, the Ustad's Ustad when it comes to tabla making. It's not just Zakir Hussain that he supplies his creations to, it's the who's who, who with their magic fingers are beating the star of this century - digital perfection, black and blue.
In the corner of his one-room workshop is a small transistor like electronic machine that is playing a single perfect note as Haridas tunes Zakir Hussain's tabla. His three assistants work on other tablas, most of them with names of someone famous scribbled with a ball point pen on the corner of the skin.
With a client list like his, why would he need a sign board? All he needs is the worldwide web. That's where Haridas nets his other orders from. From all over the world.
Website.
Haridas has been working from here for the past 25 years. But he's originally from Sangli, in Southern Maharashtra. He's from a family that has been making tablas for 3 generations.
Website.
Haridas has been working from here for the past 25 years. But he's originally from Sangli, in Southern Maharashtra. He's from a family that has been making tablas for 3 generations.
And he says that he does not know how to play the tabla well, but he can tune it to perfection.
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