For people who do not understand this, please understand and appreciate the complexity and beauty of tablas. Take time. It is worthwhile intelligent people and do not let politicians dominate. Understand and dominate them for our own good..This music is not exactly robotically commercial, just take the time and pleasure to listen to it. It is excellent and warm.err !, I think ?, bloody woman, gee whizz does it again !!.Pheeewwhh !!.
It's like a lengthened version of konnoco al dente! You folks who don't get it, sorry, but it's just AWESOME! This is SO hard to do and she does it with what looks like total ease. And it is gentle as it hits the ear drum even though she is doing extreme sounds at times. So glad I got to see this video - I've only ever heard her do this on CD before now! Wow.
I asked SC about this piece, her response: This is from 'Later' (BBC) in '93, title 'Speaking in Tongues III' 1 of 4 vocal percussion pieces inspired by what samplers (just coming in) could do. Appears 1st on 'Weaving My Ancestors' Voices'. For my 1st ever live performances in '92, I constructed pieces mimicking samplers, paying no attn to time cycles or the cadence of phrases. No one expected me to be able to replicate them so I used to start concerts with one to get the audience onside."
Amazing, and what a pleasure. Catching up from the days of Monsoon and it's absolutely wonderful to see Sheila is in such fine and pure form. Great to have people like this in the world, ain't it?
I´m impressed by her ability to reproduce beat, rhythm and clarity in her words. It does resemble a tabla beat and modulation, and yes she has an angelical beauty. I´m glad I found her...You´re Amazing Sheila!
This is a beautiful piece of work. Her voice is so above anything i'd ever hope to achieve with mine. I love how she likes to experiment and find different sounds with what she has been given... a true artist.
She is so good are was so sad that she can not sing anymore but she have give me a lot of peace in my heart with her albums that i can listen to anytime i need some mindfulness Thanx for sharing ✨
@Mystique1957 When learning tabla the beats/notes of a taal (traditional rhythm patterns) are spoken as they are played. Each sound from different areas of the skin, type of strike, or slap has its own name . This way the student knows which technique to apply
This is incredible! I have never heard anything like this. I have always appreciated using the human voice as an instrument, and this artist is a really remarkable example of that. I have read where she is a effectively mute (a tragedy), so I hope I can find other works in her catalog.
She is vocalizing rhythms with syllables, which every classical indian musician learns. It is like when you were a kid and did "ta ta ti ti ta" in music class, only way more advanced. She makes it look so effortless.
Dont worry, Sheila Chandra still sings beautifully! I saw her sing in London recently and I am amazed by her ability to evoke spirit in her voice. Her book, (published by Vermilion) is brilliant and im looking forward to the next one. Watch her more recent performances with 'The Imagined Villiage' , what a voice!
@handygrl British-Indian singer Sheila Chandra performs a piece of vocalised taal - a kind of really-old-school beatboxing used by Indian classical music percussionists to practice their parts without an instrument.
Sheila Chandra the amazing singer for Monsoon (Ever so lonely, etc) tragically is now effectively mute!! Following voice problems, Sheila returned to live performances for a short while in 2007, after a gap of 14 years, giving concerts around the world with WOMAD and other festivals. She also featured on the first 'Imagined Village' album in that year, and toured the UK with them. In 2010 she signed her first book to Vermilion (Random House) entitled 'Banish Clutter Forever - How the toothbrush principle will change your life'. Unfortunately this innovative artist's voice has continued to deteriorate. In 2010 Sheila developed 'Burnt Mouth Syndrome' (for which there is no known cause or cure) and now experiences long-lasting neurological pain triggered by speaking. Singing is completely out of the question. She is effectively mute, and communicates in person largely through handwritten notes and very basic sign language. She says she considers the trilogy she made for Real World to be the best work of her musical career.
Although most people think this is beatboxing - it is actually traditional Indian tabla bols or calling out the tabla beats - all tabla players do this. Sheila has recorded this stuff on tracks called "Speaking in Tongues" - parts I & II are on "Weaving My Ancestors' Voices" (1992) and Parts III & IV are on "The Zen Kiss" (1994) - so she's been doing this for at least 18 years. and the Indian tabla Bol tradition is centuries old.
@brookyg1 In American jazz its called scat singing man. Singing syllables to a rtythmn. Try it some time....its tough to do at all, much less do it well. She is singing rythmn patterns used in Indian drumming....check out tabla drumming sometime. Ravi Shankar always had great table players with him. Heck, go to a high school marching band drum line practice; you will hear the drummers singing
Classical Indian music is more complicated than Western based rivals of that period. This is similar to beat-boxing, I believe each syllable represents a beat phrase. It's mouth percussion.
@dankcro Don't try. Just feel it. Allow it to seep inside you through your ears and see what it does to you. There is no meaning, just the sound notation allocated to the beat of a Tabla, Pakhawaj and Mridangam.
She is supposed to be a beat boxing according to the MSNBC article where I found this. But she doesn't really sound like any instrument that I've heard from her country or here in the U.S. I certainly can't do what she does, but I'm just wondering how and where her craft is used. I'm guessing just independently?
If you can't say anything positive, don't 'say' anything. Does the planet need more of that. Fear breeds negativity. Sheila is about Love . . . whose language many (lamentably) do not comprehend . . . yet!
@strangerlover11 if you don't like it, don't listen to it. And if you listen to it, don't comment on it and make your ignorance of music, art as well as the English language publicly known to people. You alone stand to be embarrassed. The extent of your ignorance is so colossal that you think I'm a hindu. You don't need to be a hindu to understand this sort of music. The bands such as Beatles, Queen and MANY others understood and appreciated this high art.
I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE SO RACIST AND PREJUDICE TOWARDS THE INDIAN CULTURE AND EVERYTHING ABOUT US INDIANS... SOME INDIANS DONT EVEN KNOW AND APPREICATE THIER OWN HERITAGE... PEOPLE WANT THIER CULTURES RESPECTED BUT CANT RESPECT OTHERS' ... I THOUGHT THIS WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY COOL AND THINK THIS LADY IS PRETTY TALENTED I FORGOT EXACTLY WHAT THIS WAS CALLED BUT SHE SINGING IN THE TABLA TAAL
omg. This is the first time i saw this, and my eyes are tearing violently, im on the verge of peeing myself, and i can barely breathe because i was laughing that hard. throughout the whole thing wtf was she saying LMFAO!
umm...i think this is cool, but can someone tell me what she's doing? is she speaking a language? or just making sounds? is supposed to be like music (rapping, singing, etc.)? poetry? please explain cuz i really wanna understand. btw, she sounds like typing....haha xD
SHE IS NOT SPEAKING ANY LANGUAGE...OR BEATBOXING...WELL ATLEAST NOT THE AMERICAN HIP HOP STYLE SHE IS RECITING THE TABLA RHYTHM VERBALLY...WHICH IS AN ART AND CONSIDERED CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR CENTURIES IN INDIA... WAYY BEFORE HIP HOP... WATCH HOW MUCH HATE I GET ON THIS COMMENT...LOL... I'M A HIP HOP ARTIST MYSELF BUT YOU CANT JUST BE BLIND AND LOOK AT ONLY 1 GENRE OF MUSIC PEOPLE... HIP HOP IS INFLUENCED BY SO MANY OTHER CULTURES AND TRADITIONS THAT YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN BE AWARE OF
@OhSleeperAwake - I saw her singing abuot 2 years ago, it must have been one of her first concerts after she started to sing live again, and she kept apologising for the decline of her voice, but it sounded just as amazing as it did when I saw her 15 years previously to me! I think it's a decline in confidence more than a decline of her voice... Even so, voices do change as you age, some get better some worse, some just different.....
You couldn't have put it any better Alan I used to listen to shitty music but listening to this women made me understand the true meaning of music , listening and loving her since 3 years , she literally does the justice to the word music. divine beauty in her vocals and incredible aesthetics on her face.Too bad she is suffering from mouth burning syndrome and she is mute now :( Would love to meet her one day
For people who do not understand this, please understand and appreciate the complexity and beauty of tablas. Take time. It is worthwhile intelligent people and do not let politicians dominate. Understand and dominate them for our own good..This music is not exactly robotically commercial, just take the time and pleasure to listen to it. It is excellent and warm.err !, I think ?, bloody woman, gee whizz does it again !!.Pheeewwhh !!.
this is a vocal representation of the sounds you get from playing the tablas. she is incredible. Ravi Shankar knows what she is doing...
It's like a lengthened version of konnoco al dente! You folks who don't get it, sorry, but it's just AWESOME! This is SO hard to do and she does it with what looks like total ease. And it is gentle as it hits the ear drum even though she is doing extreme sounds at times. So glad I got to see this video - I've only ever heard her do this on CD before now! Wow.
@d0zr No, she keeps repeating "Tak Jhum" and "Takita Dhun" Training is required to be able to discern what is being said.
I asked SC about this piece, her response: This is from 'Later' (BBC) in '93, title 'Speaking in Tongues III' 1 of 4 vocal percussion pieces inspired by what samplers (just coming in) could do. Appears 1st on 'Weaving My Ancestors' Voices'. For my 1st ever live performances in '92, I constructed pieces mimicking samplers, paying no attn to time cycles or the cadence of phrases. No one expected me to be able to replicate them so I used to start concerts with one to get the audience onside."
Oron Arbogast Thanks for your (6 yo😆) info 👍 Very interesting.
This is from Jools Holland show.
Amazing, and what a pleasure. Catching up from the days of Monsoon and it's absolutely wonderful to see Sheila is in such fine and pure form.
Great to have people like this in the world, ain't it?
I´m impressed by her ability to reproduce beat, rhythm and clarity in her words. It does resemble a tabla beat and modulation, and yes she has an angelical beauty. I´m glad I found her...You´re Amazing Sheila!
Oh my God, incredible Energy, why have I never watched Sheila live before. Off to buy some albums . . . with an sssss
This is a beautiful piece of work. Her voice is so above anything i'd ever hope to achieve with mine. I love how she likes to experiment and find different sounds with what she has been given... a true artist.
She is so good are was so sad that she can not sing anymore but she have give me a lot of peace in my heart with her albums that i can listen to anytime i need some mindfulness
Thanx for sharing ✨
no other country in this world with such rich culture and beautiful people/women like india
@Mystique1957
When learning tabla the beats/notes of a taal (traditional rhythm patterns) are spoken as they are played. Each sound from different areas of the skin, type of strike, or slap has its own name . This way the student knows which technique to apply
Ta tiritiki ta tina tiritiki ta tiritiki ta tiritiki ta... I guess she is emulating the many sounds of Tabla, nice interpretation, beautiful video
This is incredible! I have never heard anything like this. I have always appreciated using the human voice as an instrument, and this artist is a really remarkable example of that. I have read where she is a effectively mute (a tragedy), so I hope I can find other works in her catalog.
She is vocalizing rhythms with syllables, which every classical indian musician learns. It is like when you were a kid and did "ta ta ti ti ta" in music class, only way more advanced. She makes it look so effortless.
Sheila Chandra is a genius... she has furthered music in her beautiful quiet way
shes so beautiful..... almost unearthly....... very talented and lucid..... beautiful....
Dont worry, Sheila Chandra still sings beautifully! I saw her sing in London recently and I am amazed by her ability to evoke spirit in her voice. Her book, (published by Vermilion) is brilliant and im looking forward to the next one. Watch her more recent performances with 'The Imagined Villiage' , what a voice!
*WOW!* well done Shiela
I've only ever seen it done once before but you do it so well.
i feel the stress and sorrow of day disappear.... I love your voice always, dear.......
This is awesome :) And she is beautiful.
Please tell me what concert is it?!!!!!!! It was called smth like Divas.....there were different world stars
she sounds like my old drum teacher ......i love it......
@handygrl British-Indian singer Sheila Chandra performs a piece of vocalised taal - a kind of really-old-school beatboxing used by Indian classical music percussionists to practice their parts without an instrument.
Sheila Chandra the amazing singer for Monsoon (Ever so lonely, etc) tragically is now effectively mute!! Following voice problems, Sheila returned to live performances for a short while in 2007, after a gap of 14 years, giving concerts around the world with WOMAD and other festivals. She also featured on the first 'Imagined Village' album in that year, and toured the UK with them. In 2010 she signed her first book to Vermilion (Random House) entitled 'Banish Clutter Forever - How the toothbrush principle will change your life'.
Unfortunately this innovative artist's voice has continued to deteriorate. In 2010 Sheila developed 'Burnt Mouth Syndrome' (for which there is no known cause or cure) and now experiences long-lasting neurological pain triggered by speaking. Singing is completely out of the question. She is effectively mute, and communicates in person largely through handwritten notes and very basic sign language. She says she considers the trilogy she made for Real World to be the best work of her musical career.
Crimson Wolf b
Oh man, I had no idea. I listened to the RW trilogy a lot. That is a tragedy.
Although most people think this is beatboxing -
it is actually traditional Indian tabla bols
or calling out the tabla beats - all tabla players do this.
Sheila has recorded this stuff on tracks called "Speaking in Tongues" - parts I & II are on "Weaving My Ancestors' Voices" (1992) and Parts III & IV are on "The Zen Kiss" (1994) - so she's been doing this for at least 18 years.
and the Indian tabla Bol tradition is centuries old.
That was tight! And she is gorgeous!
I'm loving this
i wish i could dance to this taal...
this is a vocal representation of the sounds you get from playing the tabalas. she is incredible. Ravi Shankar knows what she is doing...
@brookyg1 In American jazz its called scat singing man. Singing syllables to a rtythmn. Try it some time....its tough to do at all, much less do it well. She is singing rythmn patterns used in Indian drumming....check out tabla drumming sometime. Ravi Shankar always had great table players with him. Heck, go to a high school marching band drum line practice; you will hear the drummers singing
That ain't beat boxin'. I heard a hobo rockin' that same sound after a hit of some good home brew!! PLEASE!!!
no instrumets required awesome.... really beautiful
Classical Indian music is more complicated than Western based rivals of that period. This is similar to beat-boxing, I believe each syllable represents a beat phrase. It's mouth percussion.
Beautiful
I love her!
@dankcro Don't try. Just feel it. Allow it to seep inside you through your ears and see what it does to you. There is no meaning, just the sound notation allocated to the beat of a Tabla, Pakhawaj and Mridangam.
She cuts her eyes toward the camera at 02:00, and you think, "This may be the most beautiful and talented woman in the world."
Which language is this?
I have no idea what she is saying, but I love it
May be she had a def audience. Cuz i cant believe they actually clapped and cheered for her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just love it.
this is realy cool............
SHE'S VERY BEATIFUL AND SO TALENT
taketitaketitom taketitaketankatatetumkatakakakateakum tataketiteteom
lovethis
She is supposed to be a beat boxing according to the MSNBC article where I found this. But she doesn't really sound like any instrument that I've heard from her country or here in the U.S. I certainly can't do what she does, but I'm just wondering how and where her craft is used. I'm guessing just independently?
a thing of beauty...
Cool, I never heard Indian Beat Boxing before, is there a remix?
Very gifted young lady...
If you can't say anything positive, don't 'say' anything. Does the planet need more of that. Fear breeds negativity. Sheila is about Love . . . whose language many (lamentably) do not comprehend . . . yet!
Wow, is she breathing?? 0.0
That's talent right there...you go girl!
10/10
i wish i was married to her
@xXxDeeturtlexXx ;0) Happy to see someone get it too...
Amazing!! That must be so difficult to master.
@strangerlover11 if you don't like it, don't listen to it. And if you listen to it, don't comment on it and make your ignorance of music, art as well as the English language publicly known to people. You alone stand to be embarrassed. The extent of your ignorance is so colossal that you think I'm a hindu. You don't need to be a hindu to understand this sort of music. The bands such as Beatles, Queen and MANY others understood and appreciated this high art.
Wooow she is soooo good.
I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE SO RACIST AND PREJUDICE TOWARDS THE INDIAN CULTURE AND EVERYTHING ABOUT US INDIANS...
SOME INDIANS DONT EVEN KNOW AND APPREICATE THIER OWN HERITAGE...
PEOPLE WANT THIER CULTURES RESPECTED BUT CANT RESPECT OTHERS'
...
I THOUGHT THIS WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY COOL AND THINK THIS LADY IS PRETTY TALENTED
I FORGOT EXACTLY WHAT THIS WAS CALLED BUT SHE SINGING IN THE TABLA TAAL
what is this hat she wears?
WOW!
what is this calleed please?
omg. This is the first time i saw this, and my eyes are tearing violently, im on the verge of peeing myself, and i can barely breathe because i was laughing that hard. throughout the whole thing wtf was she saying LMFAO!
BUENISIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII MO
I laughed as fast as she was with her tongue!
Later.. with Jools Holland. God he looks young there. Looks like 1994/Series 3
Phenomenal!!
She´s singing likean indian instrument called tabla.
It's so sad that she can't sing any more.
umm...i think this is cool, but can someone tell me what she's doing? is she speaking a language? or just making sounds? is supposed to be like music (rapping, singing, etc.)? poetry? please explain cuz i really wanna understand. btw, she sounds like typing....haha xD
Much better then our crappy American wrap.
How is this singing style called?
she's a goddess!!
@OhSleeperAwake
You should see this.
I now know there is different languges of beat boxing cause that was faRRR from American
sounds like speaking in tongues to me....LOL. Sounds really cool :)
Where's Piers Morgan when you need him? XXXXXX Buzzzz!!
That's easy for her to say.
try to understand what is she trying to say =D
SHE IS NOT SPEAKING ANY LANGUAGE...OR BEATBOXING...WELL ATLEAST NOT THE AMERICAN HIP HOP STYLE
SHE IS RECITING THE TABLA RHYTHM VERBALLY...WHICH IS AN ART AND CONSIDERED CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR CENTURIES IN INDIA...
WAYY BEFORE HIP HOP...
WATCH HOW MUCH HATE I GET ON THIS COMMENT...LOL...
I'M A HIP HOP ARTIST MYSELF BUT YOU CANT JUST BE BLIND AND LOOK AT ONLY 1 GENRE OF MUSIC PEOPLE...
HIP HOP IS INFLUENCED BY SO MANY OTHER CULTURES AND TRADITIONS THAT YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN BE AWARE OF
reminds me of that dethklock episode where there tying to teach nathan math.
tickatatickata! who agrees?! XD
Nice, would love to do that :p
@OhSleeperAwake - I saw her singing abuot 2 years ago, it must have been one of her first concerts after she started to sing live again, and she kept apologising for the decline of her voice, but it sounded just as amazing as it did when I saw her 15 years previously to me! I think it's a decline in confidence more than a decline of her voice... Even so, voices do change as you age, some get better some worse, some just different.....
"⚘"
huh?
2:00 !
man sudhamani patel grew up to be so pretty since the school years lol
takatikititom!
I can't believe some of the ignorant comments here... Educate yourself please on world music instead of listening to your parochial commercial trash!.
Agreed, theres so much different cultures offer in musical terms and especially the use of the voice as here.
You couldn't have put it any better Alan I used to listen to shitty music but listening to this women made me understand the true meaning of music , listening and loving her since 3 years , she literally does the justice to the word music. divine beauty in her vocals and incredible aesthetics on her face.Too bad she is suffering from mouth burning syndrome and she is mute now :( Would love to meet her one day
@TheVipernick she sounds like my old drum machine. :)
واووووو
this is werid but cool at the same haha it makes me :)
waaaaaauw
Tabla voice very HOTTTT
@nkleber
Nice to see someone gets it
(:
imagine arguing with her.
What??
what did she just say lol
:)
Frankly saying: O kurwa, ale czad !
cha-chak-chaka khan! lol
wtg taqua
takatakatetoshewahepikupukitakaktaekobinjahpanshyukayuka !! YaY !!
@youtubister yeah! HAWT x]