2009-10-14 Biplabh Battacharya performs Shubd Paran, Lucknow from rai clip Watch Video
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Description: Shubd Paran is a mixture of words and spoken tabla bols.In this form the drum sounds mimic the sounds of the poetry both in cadence and in their reference to the onomatopoeic words used to represent those sounds.So in the middle of the poem, he will also throw in some onomatopoeic words that reference the drumming he is performing.It all becomes mixed and makes a new form of poetry/drumming.Really cool.I wish I had gotten all of it, but this little clip gives the basic idea.The poem
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