{"id":2885,"date":"2014-03-01T12:06:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T06:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2014-07-22T19:26:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T13:56:24","slug":"ramesh-shotham-mahaphon-clang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"Ramesh Shotham and the Mahaphon Clang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Ramesh Shotham is a percussionist and drummer from Chennai.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #252525\">He began his musical career as a self-taught drummer, co-leading a rock band called Human Bondage established in 1970 in\u00a0<\/span>Bombay<span style=\"color: #252525\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Bangalore<span style=\"color: #252525\">\u00a0then hitting the road gigging in clubs all over the subcontinent. Musical influences at this stage were\u00a0<\/span>The Beatles<span style=\"color: #252525\">,\u00a0<\/span>The Rolling Stones<span style=\"color: #252525\">,\u00a0<\/span>Jimi Hendrix<span style=\"color: #252525\">,\u00a0<\/span>Led Zeppelin<span style=\"color: #252525\">, and others. It took a live\u00a0<\/span>Ravi Shankar<span style=\"color: #252525\">\u00a0concert in\u00a0<\/span>Delhi<span style=\"color: #252525\">, and a chance meeting with a tourist, who was heading back West and wanted to hock his albums, amongst them \u2018Birds of Fire\u2019 by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, for Shotham to begin discovering his own musical roots: the vast ocean of\u00a0<\/span>Indian music<span style=\"color: #252525\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">As he performed with the Mahaphon Clang at the Krtashraya Gardens, or Aurodhan Gardens, The Inquirer team had the opportunity to witness the musician at his work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Photo courtesy: The Hindu<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Research and Interview: Radhika Khanna<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Camera: Radhika Khanna and Jaykishan R<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Editing: Sooganya N<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex; gap:10px;justify-content:center\" class=\"wps-pgfw-pdf-generate-icon__wrapper-frontend\">\n\t\t<a  href=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in?action=genpdf&amp;id=2885\" class=\"pgfw-single-pdf-download-button\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-generator-for-wp\/admin\/src\/images\/PDF_Tray.svg\" title=\"Generate PDF\" style=\"width:auto; height:45px;\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramesh Shotham is a percussionist and drummer from Chennai.\u00a0He began his musical career as a self-taught drummer, co-leading a rock band called Human Bondage established in 1970 in\u00a0Bombay\u00a0and\u00a0Bangalore\u00a0then hitting the road gigging in clubs&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-s34-around-the-town","category-s10-wings-of-muse","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}