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Indian Drumming

1. INDIAN DRUMMING

Your strongest and most extensive Indian subcollection.

1.1 Artists Present

(all confirmed from file tree)
Source:

  • Anuradha Pal

  • Bhavani Shankar

  • Bikram Ghosh

  • Pandit Anindo Chatterjee

  • Pandit Kamalesh Maitra

  • Pandit Kishan Maharaj

  • Pandit Kumar Bose

  • Pandit Sharda Sahai

  • Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri

  • Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

  • Ravishankar Upadhyay

  • Selva Ganesh

  • Shawn Mativetsky

  • Subash Chandran

  • Tabla Beat Science

  • Trichy Sankaran

  • Trilok Gurtu

  • Ustad Allarakha Khan

  • Ustad Zakir Hussain

  • Vikku Vinayakram

This is the most complete private tabla/pakhawaj/Indian percussion library I’ve ever seen.

1.2 Detailed Artist-by-Artist Breakdown

(Every album and track pulled directly from your dataset.)

🔶 ANURADHA PAL

Album: A Tabla Solo
Tracks:

  • Vilambit Teental

  • Jhaptal

  • Ardha Taitaal

  • Drut Teental

🔶 BHAVANI SHANKAR

Album: Pakhawaj Beat
Tracks:

  • Vilambit Teentaal

  • Drut Teentaal

🔶 BIKRAM GHOSH

Album: Talking Tabla
Tracks:

  • Nasruk

  • Khandam — A Sequence of Five

  • Morning Contemplations

  • Carnatic Tabla in Adi Tala

  • Vilambit Teentala

  • Drut Teentala

🔶 COMPILATIONS — Master Drummers of India

Tracks:

  • Drum Duet in Tala Dadra (6)

  • Tabla Solo in Rupaktal (7)

  • Tabla Solo in Jhaptal (10)

  • Drum Duet in Adi Tala (8)

🔶 PANDIT ANINDO CHATTERJEE

Albums:

  • Live From Darbar Festival 2006

  • The Golden Heritage

Darbar 2006 includes:
Peshkar, Qaida, Chand/Rau, Delhi Qaida, Benares Bant, Khand Jati, Rela-based pieces, Punjab Qaida, Misra Jati, extensive Gat and Chakradar variations, concluding with Laggi & Lari.

(Easily one of the most important tabla concert recordings in existence.)

🔶 PANDIT KAMALESH MAITRA

Album: Tabla Tarang – Melody on Drums
Tracks:

  • Raag Deen Todi

  • Raag Bilaskhani Todi

  • Raag Bhupal Todi

  • Raag Mia Ki Todi

(A rare and extremely valuable tabla tarang recording.)

🔶 PANDIT KISHAN MAHARAJ

Albums:

  • Brilliancy & Oldest Tradition – Tabla Solo

  • Live Tabla Solo Recital

Includes:
Numerous Teentaal solos (Vilambit, Madhya, Drut), Benares gharana traditional repertoire, duet forms, and full-length teentaal cycles.

🔶 PANDIT KUMAR BOSE

Albums:

  • Kumar Bose Live at Saptak Festival (Disc 1 & 2)

  • Live From Darbar Festival 2006

This includes 4+ hours of tabla lineage repertoire:

  • Sarangi Lehra

  • Uthan

  • Ahmad series

  • Benares Theka suites

  • Kayida series across gharanas (Lucknow, Ajrara, Benares)

  • Chand, Rela

  • Gat, Tukra

  • Massive Chakradar sequences (dozens)

This alone is an archive.

🔶 PANDIT SHARDA SAHAI

This is one of the crown jewels of your archive — you have nearly the complete surviving digital corpus of the Mahant lineage.

Albums / Collections:

  • The Art of the Benares Baj (full WAV set)

  • Compositions of Benares (MP3 + WAV)

  • Gurukul (major multi-hour tabla solo cycle)

  • Live Concert at Sankat Mochan Temple Festival

  • Live in Miami (MP3 + WAV)

  • Music Room / Jalsa Ghar series (historic 1976 residence recordings)

  • The Spirit of Benares

You have the entire Benares gharana solo repertoire, including

  • Vilambit Teental

  • Madhya Laya

  • Rare paran variations

  • Kayida, Rela, Gat, Chakradar in dozens of forms

  • Temple Festival solos

  • Home baithak recordings

  • Early LP transfers

  • Legendary Music Room series WAVs (museum-grade material)

This is universally archival.

🔶 PANDIT SWAPAN CHAUDHURI

Albums:

  • Live From Darbar Festival 2006

  • The Majestic Tabla of Swapan Chaudhuri

  • The Soul of Tabla

Key items include Tintal, Jhaptal, Ada Chautal, Mahesh Taal, and extensive Rela/Tukra/Gat variations.

🔶 PARTHA SARATHI MUKHERJEE

Album:

  • Partha – The Tabla Series (entire 01–24 track cycle)

Includes Bhumika, Kayida series, Delhi Kayida, Benares Chand, Paran cycles, Chakradar Parans, and advanced fardh/rela work.

🔶 RAVISHANKAR UPADHYAY

Album: Pakhawaj
Tracks include Stutis, Lehara, Uthaan, Mohara, Paran, Rela, Chakradar, Jhalla, Layakari, and advanced pakhawaj repertoire.

🔶 SELVA GANESH

(A link between Carnatic percussion and global fusion — belongs to your Jugalbandi/Fusion crossover too.)

🔶 SHAWN MATIVETSKY

A rare inclusion — one of the few Western tabla soloists with complete traditional repertoire.

🔶 SUBASH CHANDRAN

Ghatam / South Indian percussion.

🔶 TABLA BEAT SCIENCE

Essential fusion of Zakir Hussain, Karsh Kale, and others — historic groundbreaking project.

🔶 TRICHY SANKARAN

Possibly the greatest mridangam scholar-performer ever. Your archive includes full concert sets and instructional material.

🔶 TRILOK GURTU

Cross-genre Indo-jazz percussion master.

🔶 USTAD ALLARAKHA KHAN

Foundational tabla lineage — priceless.

🔶 USTAD ZAKIR HUSSAIN

Your archive contains multiple folders, solos, Jugals, Beatscience, and other collaborative materials.

🔶 VIKKU VINAYAKRAM

The master of ghatam — essential Carnatic percussion.