Hands and Sticks

\"Hands and Sticks\" is a collaborative track from the album Drum Invasion, released in October 2007. The composition features tabla virtuoso Bickram Ghosh and American percussionist Greg Ellison. The piece spans 9 minutes and 55 seconds, occupying the sixth position on the album’s tracklist.

The album Drum Invasion serves as a fusion of Indian classical percussion with global rhythmic traditions. Music Today produced and distributed the release. The record emphasizes improvisational interplay between Ghosh’s tabla and Ellison’s drum kit, though specific recording locations or additional session musicians remain undocumented.

The track exemplifies cross-cultural percussion dialogue, blending North Indian tala structures with Western groove patterns. Ghosh employs traditional tabla techniques, while Ellison incorporates jazz and funk influences. The album’s liner notes do not provide detailed compositional analysis, but the extended duration allows for dynamic shifts between thematic development and spontaneous exchange.

Beyond this track, Drum Invasion includes other percussion-centric collaborations, though the full list of contributing artists and exact release date (beyond October 2007) are not widely published. The album’s reception focused on its role in bridging Eastern and Western percussive traditions, though critical reviews or commercial performance metrics are not readily available in public archives.