Sheik Chinna Moulana Saheb nadhaswaram S. Kasim nadhaswaram S. Babu nadhaswaram S. Subramanian thavil"Three wind players, continually accompanied by a drum, occasionally by bronze cymbals and shruti, the Indian bordun accordion, as well, entertain us with three compositions of the 'holy musician' Shri Thyagaraja and a 24 minutes long improvisation that works a lot with questions and answers and offers an impressing drum solo. This is about severe rhythmically backed ragas with dry-austere unisono, from which a bordun mood is created every so often. Upon unsuspectingly hearing such music in a temple, one would first suffer a terrible fight. Which could possibly lead to addiction... ." (Musikblatt)
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