{"id":6143,"date":"2023-06-27T20:53:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T01:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postgenre.org\/staging\/4567\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2023-07-06T21:17:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T02:17:45","slug":"shakti-zakir-hussain-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postgenre.org\/staging\/4567\/shakti-zakir-hussain-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Relationships Through Music: A Conversation with Zakir Hussain on Shakti at 50 (Part Two)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We continue<\/a> our conversation with Maestro Hussain with a focus on how This Moment<\/em> (Abstract Logix, 2023) differs from prior Shakti releases and, in the process, explores the band’s past, present, and future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PostGenre: One thing that stands out on This Moment<\/em> is the particularly strong connection between you and Selvaganesh. It sounds like you were playing and responding to each other in the same room. But, in reality, you recorded each of your parts remotely. It seems like that level of communication would be difficult when you were in different places.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zakir Hussain: Yeah, unless you’ve grown up with [the music], and it’s been part of your DNA. Selvaganesh also helped co-produce the record this time because he’s not only a great percussionist but also a very fine producer and composer. He composes music for films in India, has his own recording studio, and understands the modern technical aspects of recording and all that stuff. His input sonically has been great in making this album what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selva and I found a way to be on Zoom with each other when we were laying down the rhythm tracks. I would play while he would watch and say, “Why not try this or why not try that?” And then I would do that, and he would say, “Okay, let me put my part on.” Then he would put his part on, and watched, listened, and said, “How about this and how about that?” So that part of the record was done at the same time with him in India and me in California, eye to eye, just like we would on stage. Yes, there’s a latency, so we couldn’t play together, but we could play one after another and in pretty much real-time and help each other.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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