Saturday, April 16, 2005
There’s so many things I want to do every day, so much more than can be possibly done in a day (or even a week). I feel like I’m missing out on a ton of great stuff - so much has been going on around town of late - it’s harder than ever to choose what to spend my limited time doing. I also honestly love just spending time in my apartment (so much to do if I just stayed right here it’s not even funny).
I did find time to make it out to Westwood this afternoon to catch a performance of some classical Indian music. I have a few CDs of this kind of stuff, but have actually never heard tablas or sitars played live. It was pretty cool. The group started out playing a long piece with two sitar and two tabla players (pictured above). Then the second half of the set was all tabla (drums) - four players, but usually working solo. The few pieces that featured all four going at it full blast was some amazing sounds. Would love to go to more shows with this music and maybe gain a better understanding of the patterns and emotions created by this extremely technical music.
