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A fantastic percussion extravaganza with folk percussionists from all over India at Dhamaal curated by @aneesh. Don’t miss the next one!
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The legendary @ragaravishankar on the spontaneous composition of the soundtrack for Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali.
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@zbokhari57 Wow!!

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That's legendary Carnatic vocalist M Balamuralikrishna summing up the essence of Indian classical music. What does Indian classical music mean to you? Comment below and let us know.

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C'mon...put that mobile phone away and spend quality time on a Sunday making musical instruments together with your child.

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For which of these #SatyajitRay films did @ragaravishankar compose music? #quiz

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K-Pop group BTS's (@bts_bighit) rapper and singer RM (@RAPMONSTHURR) hopped on for a remix of Lil Nas X's (@LilNasX) viral hit Old Town Road, called Seoul Town Road. Did you listen to it? What are your thoughts?

#bts #oldtownroad #lilnasx

https://t.co/mcDVBwbQd7

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Rastak (@Rastak_music ) is one of Iran's most popular music projects. The folk ensemble has helped in promoting many local string instruments to the rest of the world. Here's one of their jamming sessions in progress.
#iran #iranianmusic #rastak

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“When I first started putting music out, I was very afraid to put my full identity out there, as either as a gay man or as my ethnicity,” @leokalyan on his identity as a musician. Known for his soulful tracks like Focus, Leo is a leading brown queer artist from the UK. #indie…

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Parvathy Baul is an active promoter of baul music, a genre popular among wandering Bengali mystics. Parvathy defied stereotypes with this as she's an educated woman foraying into the tradition, which was male-dominated and mostly flourished in rural areas.

#baul #bengal

[Chetan Bhattacharji @CBhattacharji]

The Economist | Call of the ages via @TheEconomist ⁦@Recorder_Music⁩ ⁦@jaychauhan⁩ https://t.co/5aOytlkd71

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Horsepowar (@horsepowar) is one of the emerging South Asian voices of hip-hop. Brought up in suburban Vancouver in a Sikh-Canadian family, Powar’s hybrid of Bollywood samples and hip-hop is infectious.

#southasian #desihiphop #sampling #bollywoodmusic

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#TablaTuesdays Asian fusion tabla maestro Talvin Singh was a regular collaborator for Icelandic singer Bjork. Here, he can be seen playing the tabla for Bjork's song 'Big Time Sensuality'.

#tabla #indianclassicalmusic #hindustaniclassicalmusic

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Babymetal (@BABYMETAL_JAPAN) from Japan mixes thrash metal and sickly sweet pop. Now quite an international phenomenon they performed at @GlastoFest and shows like @colbertlateshow

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@NizamiBandhu​ performing a qawwali classic. Fondly called the "Rockstar Qawwali" singers, they shot to fame after featuring in the movie Rockstar for the song Kun Faya Kun. #qawwali #sufi

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MC Altaf spitting fire in a Mumbai cypher. The 19 year old rapper helped Ranveer Singh ( @RanveerOfficial) pick up a 'gully rapping' style in the film Gully Boy. #desihiphop #mumbai17 #gullyhiphop #gullyrap

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Sandunes (@sandunesmusic) is a leading Indian producer of psychedelic, dreamy electronica. Playing piano since the age of 7, check out her tracks Exit Strategy and Mighty Protonic. #electronica

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“We are completely a-political. None of us are really into that. But because we come from that place, you’re automatically associated with (the politics surrounding) Kashmir."
-Khalid Ahmed of Kashmiri prog-rock band Parvaaz @parvaazmusic

#parvaaz #indianrock #kashmir

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Imagine a drum circle, but with professional musicians instead of a motley crew of randoms in Goa. The Boombay Djembe Folas (@boombay_djembe_folas), play traditional West African rhythms - the first to do so in the country perhaps
#djembe #fola #balafon #african

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Andy Suzuki and The Method @andtheMethod is a rising indie band from #NewYorkCity and represent the new Third World generation in a First World music scene. Vocalist Andy Suzuki (@AndyxSuzuki) and violinist Jason Gorelick (@JasonGx) are of Asian origin while drummer Kozza…