On Thursday morning NPR will be featuring an interview with this talented and hot young thing. She just goes by one name: Suphala (see Manish’s previous post about her).
The young percussionist known as Suphala studied for years with Ravi Shankar’s tabla player, the late Usted Allarakha.
She still goes every year to Bombay, but she also likes to see where else the tabla can take her. Her musical journeys have included a concert in post-Taliban Afghanistan and a tour with the group Porno for Pyros…For the series “Musicians in Their Own Words,” Suphala describes how she gets the tabla to speak in many languages. [Link]
There are three tracks on the NPR link that are pretty sweet. You can either wake up to her tablas naturally by setting your alarm clock to NPR, or download the interview after 10a.m. EST. I’ve already made my choice.
