Sunday Styles The Drums of India Hip-Hop Toward a Hit
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Content Inside: -1- Sunday Styles Sunday, May 1, 2005 The Drums of India Hip-Hop Toward a Hit Rahav Segev for The New York Times Suphala playing the tablas at Joes Pub last Monday night. By WARREN ST. JOHN Published: May 1, 2005 AMONG musicians New York City is what is known as a tough town. And as a young musician named Suphala learned one Thursday night late this month, that is never more obvious than when you are playing to a boisterous room full of alcohol-fortified partygoers on the small Indian drum called the tabla. The setting was the Greenwich Village town house of Diane Von Furstenberg, where, at the behest of the author Salman Rushdie, a fan, Suphala had been invited to play the tabla with her band at a party honoring the writers organization PEN. The crowd of around 200 quieted briefly as Padma Lakshmi, Mr. Rushdies wife, introduced Suphala as a new talent worthy of their ears. Suphala sat cross-legged, the custom for tabla players, and began to play the intricate, ancient rhythms of her instrument. No sooner had she begun than the party resumed at full blast. The gig lasted all of three pieces. -2- "That wasnt fun for us at all," Suphala said later. "The whole point of performing is connecting with your listener. Id rather have stayed in my room and practiced." In the last few weeks Suphala has had a kind of coming out, playing at Tonic, Joes Pub and Ms. Von Furstenbergs in an effort to see how well the spiritual tabla - and by extension her career - will play in the hot zone of materialism and egotism that is New York. At 30, with brown irises the size of nickels and seductively flowing black ringlets, Suphala, her record company is convinced, is the person who can once again popularize a musical instrument that last had its moment in this country in the late 1960s and early 70s, when the Indian tabla master Alla Rakha and the sitarist Ravi Shankar played the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock. Creating a career around an instru ...
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