TAS Mani

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TAS Mani (* around 1936 in India ; † March 14, 2020 in Bengaluru ) was an Indian composer, music producer and percussionist as well as band leader , singer and music lecturer . He was the founding director and for several decades the head of the Karnataka College of Percussion in Bengaluru, southern India.

Career and work

TAS Mani is a student and son of "the most famous mridangam player in India". He specializes in percussion music from southern India and mainly plays the double membrane drum , the mridangam, which is widely used there . He also appears as a singer and interprets in particular traditional South Indian carnatic music .

In 1975 he founded the Karnataka College of Percussion (KCP) in Bangalore, the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka , and was its director from then on. The KCP has meanwhile trained numerous musicians from all over India and also from abroad in classical South Indian music, but has also dealt with cross-genre projects, such as working with Indian and European jazz and rock musicians. Mani's percussion students include world music interpreter Trilok Gurtu and Indian jazz drummer Ramesh Shotham .

Mani leads the ten-person ensemble Tala Tarangini , with whom he presents classical South Indian music and its rhythmic peculiarities, such as the South Indian drum language Konnakol , in various programs .

Both with his Carnatic music ensemble and as a session musician , Mani gave numerous concerts at home and abroad, had several worldwide tours and was involved in numerous music recordings.

In many countries around the world Mani has taught or given lectures on percussion music , such as at Bangalore University as well as at universities and music colleges in Australia, Poland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He has also given percussion lessons at international workshops and seminars, and has published several teaching lessons and practice CDs.

TAS Mani lived in Bangalore with his wife, the singer RA Ramamani .

Discography (selection)

  • Embryo (with the KCP): Embryo's Journey (Snowball, 1979)
  • Embryo / Charlie Mariano / Karnataka College of Percussion: Life (Snowball, 1980)
  • Jazz Yatra: Sangam ( Eigelstein , 1981)
  • Dissidents and the Karnataka College of Percussion: Germanistan (Exil / Schneeball, 1982),
  • Charlie Mariano and the Karnataka College of Percussion: Jyothi (ECM, 1983)
  • Oriental Wind / Karnataka College of Percussion: Sankirna (Sonet, 1985)
  • Charlie Mariano and the Karnataka College of Percussion: Live (VeraBra, 1990)
  • with Dr. Raghavendra: Shiva Ganga (Exile, 1995)
  • Mishram (Raks Müzik, 1997)
  • Charlie Mariano's Bangalore Featuring Ramamani (Intuition, 1998)
  • Crossing Roots - The Guitar Duo Meets the KCP (Acoustic Music, 2000)
  • The Ganesh Beat Club Sessions (Popup, 2003)
  • KCP 5 (KCP with Mike Herting and Ch. Mariano): Many Ways ( Double Moon , 2006)
  • Dr. L. Subramaniam : Innovations (Viji / EMI, 2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/mridanga-maestro-tas-mani-no-more/article31070992.ece
  2. ↑ See information about TAS Mani in the information about the CD Embryo - Life '80 on www.spacelook.de (accessed on September 29, 2009).
  3. ↑ a b See information about TAS Mani ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of Christian Schmidhofer , www.ziz.name (accessed on September 29, 2009). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ziz.name
personal data
SURNAME Mani, TAS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian percussionist, band leader and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH around 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH India
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2020
Place of death Bengaluru