Muhammad Talib and Ahmed Sheikh - Rung hi rung

Muhammad Talib interprets and improvises on a Sindhi tune with his Fretted Tambooro. He is accompanied by Ahmed Sheikh, a singular talent on the Ghara (Clay Pot). Please listen on the biggest speakers available to discover the low end and bass spectrum of this simple yet captivating instrument.

About the artist:

Mohammad Talib is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, and educator who hails from one of the most important musical families of Sindh. He inherited the Tambooro (long necked lute) from his father, who also played the Surinda (bowed lute). Later he studied more deeply and also learnt Benju from Ghulam Mohammad aka Ghulamu, arguably the greatest exponent of the Sindhi Benju style, before learning composition from the renowned film composer Niaz Ahmed.

It was Ghulamu who planted the seed in Talib's mind, that his Tambooro didn't need to limit itself to the usual rhythmic accompaniment. By adding frets, he could approach the instrument in a completely new way. Growing up in the urban thickness of Karachi, he soaked in various adjacent styles like Pushto and Balochi, and dedicated his life to reinventing the Tambooro.

He spent the next many years experimenting with the Benju and composing his own tunes, but those videos will come later :)