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Travel Day 942 – Amritapuri Ashram, Kerala, INDIA It was funny but it seemed that I was finally getting quite comfortable here and I even didn’t oppose to saying ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ any more… When I first arrived, I felt a bit out-of-place while seeing that everyone was wearing white clothes only and responding to […]
Travel Day 932 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA While my walk around MG Road and UB City Mall yesterday had not felt like actually being in India, at least one other aspect of Bangalore felt like India, the classical Indian music… From Kochi I had really only come north to Bangalore to see my Tabla teacher […]
Travel Day 888 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was a transitional day. On the one hand my one month with my Tabla Guru was over, but on the other my girlfriend was arriving today which meant that I would officially have a wife in India for the next one month to come… In all my writings […]
Travel Day 887 – Kolkata, INDIA This day felt at first a little bit empty due to the fact that it was my first day in India without my teacher and without any program, but on the other hand it was the day of the Zakir Hussain concert in Kolkata… : ) Since the very first day that […]
Travel Day 886 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was the big day of the final Tablaphilia concert and this time it was set to be on stage in the Indian music capital Kolkata… The day actually started as all the other concert days with the only benefit that we didn’t have to be at the meeting […]
Travel Day 884 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was one last and final day of Tabla class with my teacher and from now on I would seriously have to figure out how to continue… It was funny because the last two days my teacher had finally taken the time to actually sit down with me and […]
Travel Day 881 – Kolkata and Berhampore, INDIA It was one of those moments. I was looking up and into the blinding spot light that was warming my face. I was wearing a salmon colored kurta and found myself on stage and in the middle of a Tabla performance in a small town in India. […]
Travel Day 880 – Kolkata, INDIA After one day of no concert, it was obviously time for another Indian classical concert, but time in a huge temple in Ballygunge, Kolkata… The morning was actually pretty uneventful and I just used my time for some Tabla practice on the roof, but after lunch I was off to […]
Travel Day 873 – Kolkata, INDIA It was day three of the Tablaphilia rehearsal, but the friendly owner of the Tabla store yesterday had invited me to come back in the morning because I would have the chance to learn how to build a Tabla from scratch… Since I had learned a trade myself and […]
Travel Day 872 – Kolkata, INDIA It was a new day of a new routine and we started it quite early while meeting our teacher, helping to pack up all his Tablas and bringing them via taxi down to the rehearsal location by Kalighat… Once we arrived and unloaded all the Tablas, all the other […]
Travel Day 866 to 868 – Kolkata, INDIA It was funny, but all of a sudden I was not only having a daily routine of studying Tabla, but also an actual Travel Life… What was funny about this circumstance was the fact that the longer I travelled, the more I actually enjoyed staying in certain […]
Travel Day 863 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was finally my first Tabla class with my teacher in India and while I didn’t quite know what to expect, I was soon to find out what it was all about… Actually it wasn’t about much, at least it wasn’t today. I arrived at 9am at the class […]
Travel Day 860 – Manila to Bangkok, THAILAND Today was already my last day in the Philippines and as my friends here were flying out to the islands to prepare for the actual wedding, I was getting ready for my stay in India… My day started actually quite early since yesterday evening I just fell […]