A few years ago, Tony Gatlif made “Latcho Drom“, a film that tracks Roma history by means of dance. This clip shows Rajasthani dance, and has fantastic singing and drumming and kartals! I’m a mean kartal player myself, I love the hypnotic rhythm of these songs, bhajans…Easy to remember that Lord Krsna was a wandering herdsman. These women might well have been His gopis. Link to the guy who’s put the whole film on youtube, in chunks of 10 minutes.
