Bhavani Shankar
To Bhavani Shankar would go the singular credit of putting the Pakhawaj back on centrestage as a popular percussion instrument. Trained in the great Jaipur tradition, rich in music, percussion and dance, by his own father, Bhavani Shankar has the distinction of being able to play a variety of percussion instruments apart from the pakhawaj - tabla, dhol, dholak, naal, duff and others apart from the tumba and even the Western drums. He has remained the top percussionist of the Indian film industry for years now. But pakhawaj remains the maestro's first love. He has brought to pakhawaj playing his variegated experience with other instruments and genres. In sheer power, Bhavani Shankar has few equals. To the innate scope in pakhawaj playing for powerful, booming, reverberating bols, the maestro has added the crisp, crackling directness and variety offered by other instruments. The result is electrifying.
PAKHAWAJ The Pakhawaj is also known as Mridang. Like other Mridangs it is the most ancient living symbol of classical devotional percussion. The instrument and art of Pakhawaj live on today in Dhrupad, in dance forms such as Odissi and Kathak (partially in the latter) and in several devotional music traditions such as Haveli Sangeet. This barrel shaped, two faced drum evolved to its present form in a period when Dhrupad dominated, when long powerful and majestic sounds and phrases reverbated and were comprehended in collossal spaces of silence.
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