Zakir Hussain: Peshkar
There are few brighter stars in the Hindustani music firmament than Zakir Hussain. Whether on or off stage he is… Read More
4 July 2016
Author: Ken Hunt
Music critic, journalist, broadcaster and translator who specialises in world music, folk and improvised musics
A Kind of Travel Almanac– Sunil Khilnani’s Incarnations
Following his radio series, the author’s illuminating essays on the history of India have recently been published. Ken Hunt interviewed him.
4 July 2016
Sarangi – The Voice of Pain and of Paradise
Ken Hunt’s tribute to Sabri Khan and his chosen instrument.
14 March 2016
The Ghazal – A Marriage of Poetry and Music
Ken Hunt on this poetic form, both literary and popular, constantly replenished.
14 March 2016
Mita Nag – Seduced by the Sitar
The sitarist Mita Nag is, as we say, her father’s daughter. It was Ira Landgarten’s New York-based label Raga Records that first planted her father Manilal Nag’s music in my head in the 1990s.
24 December 2015
Bahauddin Dagar – Morning Bliss
You know what it’s like when you’re reading a really great book… you can peek to see how many pages remain. When you’re in a really great Hindustani recital, there’s no knowing how many ‘pages’ are left.
24 December 2015
Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion
In 1994 the San Anselmo, CA-based Moment! record label released an album with the title Masters of Percussion. It was a ten-piece percussion ensemble that the tabla maestro Zakir Hussain had gathered together.
19 December 2015
Shivkumar Sharma – Re-inventor of the Santoor
Ken Hunt’s profile of the musician who dreams of playing such music that the audience forgets to clap.
14 September 2015
Zakir Hussain – Speaking a language, telling a story
Our exclusive interview with the master of eloquence in rhythm. By Ken Hunt.
14 September 2015
Pulse of the World
Two days before his Alchemy concert, Zakir Hussain Qureshi and I did some catching-up before the Pulse interview. At one stage, talk turned to what musician and audience really recall of a concert by way of detail
23 June 2015