As We Speak

Renowned tabla player Zakir Hussain, banjo legend Béla Fleck, the great double bassist Edgar Meyer, and bansuri player Rakesh Chaurasia perform their three-time Grammy award-nominated collaborative album As We Speak. As the ensemble describe themselves, 'When we are performing on stage, in composing mode or creating mode, we are basically having a conversation'.

As We Speak showcases the quartet’s breathtaking abilities as instrumentalists and underscores the wide range of influences at their command. Across a dozen songs, they glide easily between the cerebral complexity of Indian rhythm and the gut-level groove of a funky bass line, sounding equally at home with the rigours of bluegrass.