Results for "Drums"

Lamy Istrefi Jr.

Born: June 9, 1979

Brooklyn resident Bajram Istrefi Jr., aka LAMY, is a jazz drummer, percussionist and composer who was born in Mitrovice (Republic of Kosovo), where he grew up and started his musical career at the age of 13, playing different percussion instruments of his native folk music. Mr. Istrefi’s growing interest in jazz music led, at the age of 16, to his enrollment at the renowned University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz (KUG) Austria, where he studied drums/percussion, and soon found a place in the local jazz scene, where he started to create his own voice in music. In addition to his activities in jazz, Mr

Stefan Gonzalez

Drummer Stefan Gonzalez was born in Dallas, Texas. Raised in a musical household, he took early inspiration to start drumming from the elders who rehearsed and recorded with his father, Dennis Gonzalez Ð the masters Alvin Fielder, W.A. Richardson, Andrew Cyrille, and Louis Moholo. By the age of 11 he had put together his first heavy grunge bands (Facelift and Oblivion) and he started focusing on his main project, Akkolyte. Akkolyte, which started as a solo project in which Stefan overdubbed drums, guitar, bass, and vocals, added Aaron on electric bass, and it became a duo. By 2004 Akkolyte had already done a myriad of successful mini tours and an all encompassing 28 day tour of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. He also began playing in the family New Jazz/Improv trio Yells At Eels.

Emil Astrand-Melin

Frederic Vaudaux

Frédéric begins playing music in 1980 and studies the drum kit in the Contemporary Musical Center of Nice where he obtains two first prizes. After various experiments in regional bands he dashes into the composition, investigates and looks for the musical energy in various projects: associating performances dance and improvised music, work with video directors, sound poetry, sound painting, musics of illustration... Today, his technique and the richness of his playing allow him a contrasted, surprising freedom of expression, going from the most minimal to the most talkative. His inspiration takes its source in the instant, it can be light, airfull, creating more tribal, violent but also subtle atmospheres, letting appear from a sound continuum some fragmented barbaric rhythms...

Didier Lasserre

Born: March, 1971

Born in Bordeaux, France, march 1971. Started the drums at the age of sixteen, in order to live «something else" After learning some drums rudiments in the local music school, he works essentially in autodidact, in order to find his own voice, based on a poetic approch. Teaches drums & leads improvision' workshop & master-classes. Works with painting, poetry, dance, super8 movies, photography. Co-creates Amor fati label with Mathieu Immer. Has played in France, Europe, Russia, Argentina...

Raymond Strid

Born: 1956

Born Stockholm, 1956; drums, percussion. Raymond Strid started to play the drums relatively late. As he had become addicted to listening to music, sometimes spending eight ours a day in front of the stereo, he was encouraged to start playing himself (and to this day, he is still a dedicated listener and audiophile). With no musical background he thought the drums would be the easiest instrument to learn. He was particularly inspired by some of the European master drummers like Han Bennink, Paul Lytton and Tony Oxley. Strid's first concert was 30 September 1977 and he subsequently performed in a variety of local groups in Stockholm

Kenwood Dennard

Drummer and composer Kenwood Dennard was practically born playing music. He began playing piano at age 3, and moved on to the drums at age 9. Since then, Kenwood has truly mastered the art of drumming, playing in numerous settings. In 1968 Kenwood attended David Mannes School where he studied ear training, theory, and piano. In 1971 he furthered his classical studies at the Manhattan School of Music Prep. Department, where he began studying percussion with Jim Price. Kenwood graduated from the prestigious Dalton High School at age 17 and was accepted into Berklee College of Music in Boston the same year

Shannon Powell

Peter Manheim

www.petermanheim.com Peter can be reached at [email protected].

Charles Hayward

CHARLES HAYWARD is known as the pioneering drummer with This Heat and Camberwell Now, an ever growing list of solo concerts and CDs (most recent release Abracadabra Information on Locus Solus label), special collaborative performances, and is in Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith. Throughout the 90’s up to the present he has initiated a bewildering array of events and performances, including the widely acclaimed series Accidents + Emergencies at the Albany Theatre, Out of Body Orchestra (too much sound, not enough space, not enough time), music made from the sound of the new Laban dance centre being built which was choreographed for the official opening, music for a circus (part of the National Theatre’s ‘Art of Regeneration’ initiative), the full-on installation/performance Anti-Clockwise (with Ashleigh Marsh and David Aylward) for multiple strobes, maze structure of diverse textures, 2 drummers, synthesizers and your nervous system