Material Live 2004

KARSH KALE

"21st century trance workouts, inspired by drum and bass grooves. Welcome to drummers heaven." - Billboard

"Kale…artfully brings together these two sides on Realize - fusing harmoniums and tablas with dub loops, samples, and big rock beats to achieve a sound that transcends Indian classical traditions and Western dance floors." - Tom Pryor, CDNOW!

"Intricate and otherworldly." - BPM

"A pioneer who mines beats, melodies and his over active mind, Kale strikes the motherlode with music that is entirely his own." - JALOUSE

Karsh Kale is a busy man. Since the release of 2001's classic Realize, his musical mission has taken him on a non-stop global voyage, playing alongside and working with some of the world's top artists, including Sting, Zakir Hussain, Bill Laswell, Ustad Sultan Khan, Pharoah Sanders, Baaba Maal, Herbie Hancock, and Craig David. That's a pretty impressive list by one of today's most prolific performers.

Classically educated in tabla, schooled in drums and a fiend for electronics, Kale has infused these worlds so well separation seems impossible. Realize borrowed elements of classical South Asian music, western rock, and global electronica, mixing them in one seamless blend, segueing the world of our ancestors to the lives of our children, all the while offering us the opportunity to dance along.

Kale's tabla electronics serve as the heartbeat of today. His work as drummer in Tabla Beat Science (alongside Zakir Hussain, Sultan Khan, and Laswell) earned their recent double-live disc, Live in San Francisco at Stern Grove, a spot on Billboard's World Music Charts.

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		KARSH KALE "21st century trance workouts, inspired by drum and bass grooves. Welcome to drummers heaven." - Billboard "Kale…artfully brings together these two sides on Realize - fusing harmoniums and tablas with dub loops, samples, and big rock beats to achieve a sound that transcends Indian classical traditions and Western dance floors." - Tom Pryor, CDNOW! "Intricate and otherworldly." - BPM "A pioneer who mines beats, melodies and his over active mind, Kale strikes the motherlode with music that is entirely his own." - JALOUSE Karsh Kale is a busy man. Since the release of 2001's classic Realize, his musical mission has taken him on a non-stop global voyage, playing alongside and working with some of the world's top artists, including Sting, Zakir Hussain, Bill Laswell, Ustad Sultan Khan, Pharoah Sanders, Baaba Maal, Herbie Hancock, and Craig David. That's a pretty impressive list by one of today's most prolific performers. Classically educated in tabla, schooled in drums and a fiend for electronics, Kale has infused these worlds so well separation seems impossible. Realize borrowed elements of classical South Asian music, western rock, and global electronica, mixing them in one seamless blend, segueing the world of our ancestors to the lives of our children, all the while offering us the opportunity to dance along. Kale's tabla electronics serve as the heartbeat of today. His work as drummer in Tabla Beat Science (alongside Zakir Hussain, Sultan Khan, and Laswell) earned their recent double-live disc, Live in San Francisco at Stern Grove, a spot on Billboard's World Music Charts.