533 Souls Festival, Shahbaz Hussain, Tabla Solo

, indianmusic, classical, tabla Filmed and recorded live at Englands premier venue The Curve Theatre, Leicester this video is part of the 533 Souls Festival. Curated exclusively with UKbased musicians, 533 Souls celebrates mental wellbeing in the postpandemic world through Indian classical music and yoga. In an expansive rhythmic imagination, Shahbaz Hussain presents the 7beat cycle of Rupak taal in a brilliant solo presentation. Trained in primarily two styles of tabla playing, Hussain merges the power and precision of the Delhi gharana and the intricacy and richness of the Punjab gharana with his own sensitivity to weave an eclectic style into his presentations. Hussain carves the bols with care, taking time to build the energy from stoic to a fluttering array of charming compositions, all played out with ease and palpable passion. Hussains father and first guru Ustad Mumtaz Khan was a vocalist who infused in him at an early age the transcendental power of nuanced tabla pla