This is about 10 weeks since the passage of Ustad Zakir Hussain and tribute festivals continue around the world. The composer, especially the perkuitionist, cannot stop talking about how they touched their lives, shaped their music and influenced their ideas.

The 2025 version of the Mahindra Perfection Festival (MPF) to be held in Bengaluru on 1 and 2 March will be dedicated to the Tabla Wizard. This festival is also a celebration of Indian rhythm, which has now received a global resonance. With the immoral efforts of innovative musicians like Ustad Zakir Hussain, Indian instruments have pushed borders as before. His leading east-west band Shakti, which he launched with an unqualified Jazz guitarist John McLaglin, sets the tone and trend of collaborative music. If the sitar mestro PT. Ravi Shankar was the first Indian composer to win a Grammy, Ustad consolidated the presence of our music in international music shows with many wins.

The Line Up Eustad’s rhythm at the Mahindra Perfection Festival is reflective of heritage. In addition to the feature of the Indian collision the world’s top names, MPF will exclude some specially curated concepts. On the early day, Carnatic singer Aruna will lead the Syram Thrilana project, which will focus on the rhythmic nature of Thailana as composition. The next evening, drummer Ranjit Barot and theater director Rosten Abel Beatrout will present, a musical production, originally mixed with modern electronic music to the Indian folk pool, which is highlighted by Ranjit’s drumming.

The program is being presented in collaboration by the Mahindra Group. HinduThis Prestige will be held at Srihari Dugs Center for Performing Arts, which also hosted it last year. In 2023, the opening version was held at the Jaymahal Palace Hotel in Bangalore. The other performs this year are sitar exponent Ravi Chary and His Project Crossing, The Trilok Gurtu Project, And Chennai Percussion Duo Snax, Consisting of Drummer Ramkaramar Kanakaraman Aka Kanakomar Kanakamar Kanakamar Kanakamar Kanakamar Kanakaraman Aka KANAKAXX and MRIDANGAM Player Sumesh Narayanan.

Sitar’s ambush Ravi Chari and his project crossing have created a special composition as a tribute to Tabla Mestro Ustad Zakir Hussain. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Going through sounds and style, each Act will provide something different. For example, Ravi Chari Crossing will include popular tracks like ‘Yogi’ from their self-examination 2012 album, besides tunes from his latest albums RichA contingent of artists also includes drummer Gino Bank, tabla player Satyajit Talwalkar, Basist Sheldon D’lva and keyboardist music Haldipur. Being a collision celebration, Gino and Satyajit will play the role of special solos and rhythmic encounters.

Trilok Gurtu has cured a special section, incorporating a collage of sounds. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

According to Ravi Chari, his project was named by Zakir Hussain. “For this show, we have created a special composition, which is a heartfelt tribute to the immense impact we have and their contribution to our music,” he says. Ravi is also happy to perform on the same day as Trilok, which he included in his first fusion show at Rang Bhawan in Mumbai in 1997. The show gave me a great opportunity to find out the intricacies of Indian classical music. I have taken great inspiration from Trilok ji, who played with him in the main international festivals, ”he says.

Interestingly, Aruna Siram is the only singer who will lead a segment in the show. “Thilana is a very pleasant rhythmic form, which is mostly made for Bharatanatyam, but is also sung by great appreciation in concerts. So I thought that it would be the most suitable form to delimit on a collision festival, as it is attracted to dance footwork, mridangam and ghatam syllables and other collision elements, and translates everyone in voice, “shares” Is.

Aruna, who always loves to think out-of-the-box, along with BC Manjunath with Mridangam and Concol, Ghatm on Giridhi Uduupa, drummer Arun Kumar, Violinist Jyotsna Srikanth, Basist Shalini Mohan and Keyboardist Shalini Mohan And the keyboardists will be with the Senge Halipur. She says, “The material is completely sour with traditional works. It will begin with the rendering of the thilana, but as the piece moves forward, it will be leveled with the sounds of all the equipment of the project. ,

Aruna’s set will also include Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi and her signature ‘Kalinga Narathna’ Thilana. However, Thailana is something that she has always been emotional, she started working on the project a few weeks ago.

The team of Trilok Gurtu will have the convenience of magnificent artists like Chandana Bala Kalyan, Dhruv Ghankar on the guitar and the convenience of brilliant artists like Rahul Wadhwani.

While Trilok himself will play a host of drumkit, tabla, dezel, their trademark water drums and other collision equipment, he has cured a special set incorporating a collage of sounds. Trilok, which is scheduled to perform at the Mumbai Drum Day Concert on 21 February, has created a separate soundscape with its mixture of Indian and global rhythm styles.

Chennai Perkuition Doo Snacks, including drummer Ramkumar Kankarjan and Mridangam player Sumesh Narayanan, will show track from their albums Thrillax.
Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

For their share, snacks will show track from your album ThrillaxWas released in September 2024. Chennai was prominent on the music scene, Sumesh and Kansx would often be part of the same gigs, sound-check together. KANAXX says, “During the lockdown, we often used to meet our home studio without any agenda. But we played a lot and recorded a little, and that is why the original idea behind the snacks took place. ,

The group mixes traditional and contemporary, using rockes with kanaxx using its Karnataka training and experience for the rock, heavy metal and jazz, and Sumesh. Both artists have interesting stories of how they got into music. KANAXX’s house was next to the KFI school in Chennai, and he once felt a lecture performance on the drum through a hole in the wall, and this led to it. Sumesh was participating in a concert, where the composer saw him copying what he was playing on his water bottle. That musician became his guru.

The festival will end with the beetraout of Ranjit Barot and Rosten Abel, which, among other things, is to demonstrate the new sound of the Indian collision. Roston is known for his thematic music shows. His popular Mangiyar Seduction and Manganiar Classroom focused on the music of the Manganiyar community of Rajasthan, while weaving sounds use various styles of singing in a narrative format.

Using Ranjit’s drumming as a center-point, with a mixed attire of folk drummers, Beatrout “acts as a music, past and present, masculine and feminine, and brizing everyday and divine Is.” A focus field of performance will be how drummers are suited to diverse music landscapes and attach to many styles.

It is very part of the variety spread over two days. As the Sumesh of Snacks said, “It is a charming to see so many collision festivals in India. No one can ever ignore a strong beet, as it transfers your body. ,