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Drori Mondlak and Straight Circle: Wake-Up Call

Read "Wake-Up Call" reviewed by Phil DiPietro

by Phil DiPietro
June 25, 2003

Drori Mondlak brings a lot to the table as a drummer/leader. Born to a Polish father and English mother in Mexico City, his family soon moved to London and then New York, where he's remained. Along with this natural assimilation of cultures and rhythms came an infatuation with the drums when he switched over from piano as a teenager, leading to his current enthusiasms, not only for the kit's many colors, timbres and tunings, but its possiblilites for orchestrating melodies ...