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It is hard to imagine the double bass — the lowest-pitched member of the violin family that resembles a string instrument on steroids — setting the tone for the Sufi song ‘Dama dam mast kalandar’, but in Debjit Mahalanobis’s hands, it does. In a 2017 TV recording made with the Murshidabadi Project, a Sufi musical … Read More “Double the innovation: How musicians niftily weave in king-sized double bass into Indian compositions” »