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The Biryani Boys, Season 4 featuring the Ali Akbar College of Music!
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Welcome to Season Four! We're celebrating our collaboration with the Ali Akbar College of Music. The timing couldn't be better as the college cuts the ribbon for the long awaited opening of their library and archives in California.

EpisodeThree features the AACM Tabla Ensemble comprised of the school's youngest students. Under the guidance of the great, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, these young stars exhibit an impressive display of tabla repertoire in Jhaptal, the 10 beat rhythmic cycle. Listen along with the melody of the harmonium as it plays an ostinato, a repeated phrase, that helps keep the drummers on track.

Stay tuned as we bring you amazing footage. All episodes were filmed on location in Kolkata. More adventures on their way so stay tuned...

We're thrilled you've taken some time to stop by and visit. We've made it our mission of preserving and promoting Indian classical music. We're are absolutely nuts for it! All are welcome here. Whether you're new to Indian music or you're a seasoned listener. There is something for everybody!

Our video series is a great place to start. The gang is all here and we are thrilled to feature sitar legends Pandit Manilal Nag, Pandit Krishna Bhatt; sarod maestro, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan; tabla maestros Pandit Anindo Chatterjee, Ustad Shabbir Nisar, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Pandit Mahapurush Mishra and Pandit Anand Gopal and the Jimi Hendrix of mandolin, U. Shrinivas. Joining them are the stars of tomorrow like Alam Khan, Falu, Steve Gorn, Sameer Gupta, Mita Nag, Abhik Mukherjee and Uday Kumar.

You'll also find plenty of fun cover songs here too; our humble beginnings where we prepared pop tunes of today and yesterday with actor/comedian and international man of mystery, Mike Myers. A highlight for sure.

We hope that our passionate, casual and humorous presentation of this most amazing world of Indian classical music keeps you coming back for more.

So feel free to reach out and say hi. We're members of all the on-line social clubs including Twitter and Facebook. Cable subscribers can now catch us on ITV as part of Sangeet Sabha. You can also tune into BRIC (Brooklyn Independent Media) where our dreams of cable access stardom has come true. You can also visit us at our online home at www.thebiryaniboys.com Finally, if you like what you see here, we hope you'll consider subscribing to our YouTube channel.

Thanks for visiting and we'll see you on the *Riyaz mat!

Mustafa and David

*The Riyaz Mat is where we practice, goof around and broadcast for...You!


For more info on the Ali Akbar College of Music and Library visit: www.aacm.org and www.aliakbarlibrary.com

Season Four Special Thanks:

We couldn't have done it without the generous and enthusiastic support of Mary Khan, Alam Khan, Robin Sukhadia and Mark DeJong.