New Pure Finder recording up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/jam-05

Parts of this long jam may have ended up on Pure Finder's Float cassette release or on some of the digital stuff at Bandcamp. I like this organic, long piece though. 

Solo drumming piece up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/2014.08.15-00.00-03

A solo recording of me playing along to a track by Brandon Evans. I guess that it was an attempt to get to know his style, seeing as that he was far away from me, physically at the time. 

The photo above is from when Brandon came to the school where I worked, in Concord CA, to guest teach on the subject of Jazz. One kid, after watching some footage of Eric Dolphy with the Charles Mingus Group, said "he was ok....", hahahaha. 

Hope Brandon is doing well.

Ra Khepri-The Procession

 

Video footage from Summer Solstice recording session by myself and Ra Khepri.

Actual activity "in the world"!

 

Summer solstice 2023, I drove over to the far east side of Tucson to do some recording with Tucson-native Ra Khepri! It was a fun day of tracking, swimming in a nice cool swimming pool, and conversation. Color was added to the recording room by home stitched quilts by Ra's mother, a sweet touch (I love me some quilts). All told, we probably got about two hours' worth of sound documented. I played drums, resonant metals, and a ring modulator. Ra Khepri utilized keyboards synths, guitar, alto saxophone, and some preparations. I have no idea if/how/when these recordings will surface "in the world", but it was certainly gratifying to be somewhere besides my own mind, making music with another human being. 

Below: Pearl drums and Zildjian cymbals

Above: Ra Khepri at his engineering desk

Below: quilt views

Cartoon Justice live at Downtown Music Gallery audio up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/cartoon-justice-downtown-music-gallery-manhattan-6

We played to some people at this cool shop in Chinatown Manhattan. Then we flew home. 

Drumming track up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/track-1-20230601-183418

Solo drums in a shed. 

Cloud Shepherd live at NorCal Noisefest up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/008-cloud-shepherd

Cloud Shepherd without Andrew Joron and his theremin, getting noisy at NorCal Noisefest 2012. A happy, optimistic time, even though a bad cold was going around. I should know, I caught it a few days after this show!