Djembe and dundun rhythms for West African drumming and dance
Performances | Recording | Original Compositions
Masala at EarthDance 2011 - EcoVillage, British Columbia - Part 2
mp3 selections from Strange Moon jam, 11/08
New Releases! Black Moon Bay, Ghetta Life, Little Beach Rain
Nowick Gray online discography
Flutes Jam - tips and scale charts for improvisation
Dancing Moon Drummers - Victoria BC Folk Festival, 2006
New Year's Eve, 2007 with Adama (Ken) Doumbia
Funky Arts Cafe, Varkala, Kerala, India
Jungle Therapy* - Winter Solstice 2007, White Eagle Hall, Victoria, BC (* alias Thuja, version x.y)
Steven Fosker on guitar never showed up because he was sick, so that left Bernie on bass, Eugene on kit, Amy on keyboard and me on hand drums and percussion to wing it somehow. We did a sound check with reasonable coherence but then it came time to perform, and Bernie got into the primal cat beats and we just took off, there was no holding back, only Amy kind of got left in the funk-dust, as we churned and motored and yanged our way out and down and around and back, loud and fast and changing grooves and yet, people were dancing somehow, it was after all as funky as we could manage, just grunge-dirty, progressive punk, or regressive garage, or egregious jazz, or something like ocean-surf rock n’ roll, not beach boys style but when the undertow grabs you and the breakers pound you and hang you out to dry. It was another dimension, like the first time on psychedelics, or falling head over heels into passionate love/sex, no bearings, no looking back, just holding on for the ride and going with it, and afterwards, for days and nights, gasping, What Happened?
Original compositons of African drum ensemble rhythms, featured in Roots Jam 3. These are recorded digitally using Percussion Studio software, based on live drum samples.
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New Releases! Tracks 5-7: Black Moon Bay, Ghetta Life, Little Beach Rain
Goa Gone (with E. Neptune) - sound track for Haleakala Hike
Track #4: Nimba (right-click to download mp3)
courtesy of GreenEarthForever
recording by E. Neptune; live instruments composed/played by E.Neptune, Axel, and Nowick
eugene nowick axel
Strange Moon jam: Nowick, Eugene, Axel, Bernie
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