A sound experiment with the tabla and djembe

It’s not every day that the tabla and the djembe combine to produce an album. We just spontaneously decided on a time signature and a tempo,” says Taufiq, son of the legendary Ustad Alla Rakha Khan and the younger brother of Ustad Zakir Hussain. A live interaction between two percussionists who love and respect each other’s work, the track happened when both musicians simply set up their instruments at an audio-visual studio and started playing live once the camera started rolling. “It doesn’t have a regular rhythm, rather a funky structure,” says Bickram. “While doing ‘Grooving Fives’, there was a section where Bickram added some low duff parts, and I had to do a low conga to match.