Ravi Padmanabha 's "my Nada Brahma" at Bop Shop Records

Nada Brahma is the belief that the universe was created from the energy of sound. My Nada Brahma's music is a reflection of Ravi's love of Indian folk and Jazz music. The combination of tabla, harmonium, violin and electric guitar creates the unique sound of the group. My Nada Brahma explores a variety of traditional music forms found in Indian classical and folk music. Often compositions include open free improvised sections inspired by Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry. My Nada Brahma's new recording, entitled "Mission to Mount Everest", features 10 original compositions. All compositions are written by Ravi except one group collaboration....

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Nada Brahma is the belief that the universe was created from the energy of sound. My Nada Brahma's music is a reflection of Ravi's love of Indian folk and Jazz music. The combination of tabla, harmonium, violin and electric guitar creates the unique sound of the group. My Nada Brahma explores a variety of traditional music forms found in Indian classical and folk music. Often compositions include open free improvised sections inspired by Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry. My Nada Brahma's new recording, entitled "Mission to Mount Everest", features 10 original compositions. All compositions are written by Ravi except one group collaboration.





Ravi Padmanabha is a multi-instrumentalist who specializes in percussion. Ravi has studied tabla with many great masters such as Pandit Sharda Sahai and Pandit Samar Saha. Ravi has performed as a duo with Steve Baczkowski for many years. This duo has performed with William Parker, Robert Dick, Paul Flaherty, Cooper-Moore, Junni Booth, Douglas Ewart, and Jin Hi Kim. In 2003 Ravi and Daniel Carter released a duo recrording entitled "Nivesana". Ravi has also worked with many world musicans such as, Tom Chess, Brandon Terzic and Sabir Khan.

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