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Dholis, or dhol players, are often found in Bhangra performances, although traditional dhol rhythms are not necessarily adhered to.

Dedicated to West African drumming music from Senegal, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea and particularly rhythms associated with Djembe, Sabar, and Kpanlogo drums.

If you've ever thought of doing a spot of classical composition, here are a few tips. Ditch your pencil, paper and piano. Purchase one very large, powerful computer. Find one equally large, powerful new brain. Replace for your own. And get printing. For there's a new musical lingua franca and it relies on indescribably complicated computer printouts (spectrograms), wave analysis and new Pythagoreanism. Don't ask. What really matters is that it's called Spectralism, it's the future of classical music - and it actually sounds rather nice.

She's like a big, black, smiling sun; her voice seems polished by the sea, weathered by the wind, and is at once earthy and unearthly as she sings of the pain of love and the consolation of the divine.

This film looks at the Punjab and its music - from folk music to bhangra. Featuring footage from the Utsavam Exhibition at the Horniman Museum, interviews with its curators and musical experts like DJ Ritu and Sonia Mehta of ADFED. Original footage in the Punjab by the Horniman Museum, UK interviews and production by FlyPod