One of my bands, Subtle Body and the Cosmic Man, did a feature with Tim Brouk of the Lafayette Journal and Courier. You know I spent some time tuning the drums when they sound good in video recorded on an iPhone ::pats self on back::
Tim Brouk, the author of the Zimdiana feature linked in my previous post, has awarded me “Best Drummer: Rookie of the Year” for the “Timmy” awards, his end-of-the-year tribute to local artists. Thanks, Tim!
The local paper ran an article on the Zimbabwean marimba band I play with - the unfortunate phrase ‘jazz beats’ cropped up but otherwise I’m pretty excited about it.
A couple of drum corps dudes playing a ridiculous multi-perc composition. Fun.
First post! Since most of what I’m going to be posting will be related to music projects I thought I’d start out by sharing this little sketch I made with an Mbira (African thumb piano) and a pre-made set of guitar effects in Logic Pro.
There’s not much to it - I hadn’t actually played the instrument before, but I thought it would be worthwhile to just press record and see what might happen. Here it is:
