THAALAVATTAM

Using upcycle materials to create a new sound in percussion, to promote the idea of « Reduce Reuse Retune ». Percussionist, graphic designer and artist, Montry Manuel, founded Thaalavattam in 2011. Growing up in the Southern Indian port city of Cochin, he was inuenced by his father, who instilled in him a deep love for music and […]

Montry Thaalavattam

“Thaalavattam” (a percussion based project) is to create music using innovative instruments made from waste plastic and metal (reduce, reuse and recycle). Thaalavattam aims to clean up the plastic waste that is plaguing India, through music. At the moment in India, Thaalavattam also conducts rhythm rush (a drum circle event) through which we try to […]