Zakir and His Friends

Summary

Zakir and His Friends

The film gives a portrait of the tabla player, percussionist and world musician Zakir Hussain, who was born in Bombay in 1951 and has developed a new, exciting music using the vocabulary of the rhythmic languages of this world.

Uncompromising in the balance between the worlds of sounds and images Lutz Leonhardt achieves a new quality in the genre of the music film. "In the beginning, there was the picture of four young blacks in South America - and a baffling concert with an Indian musician previously unknown to me. This resulted in a musical trip to India, Indonesia, Japan, Venezuela, Trinidad, Burkina Faso and California - to the absolutely incredible drummers and percussionists of this world and to the rhythm of life". Lutz Leonhardt

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