this is good, i really like the timing of all these nice percussions. i was tilting the whole time.

Great beat nice one. And thanks for your recent comment.

Great stuff Norm!

Alex tu m'as rappele encore les ceremonies de deces de mon pere ou le hugan a ete joue.

Still one of my favs....

Drum Man!

As for playing with it, I would say, listen to the shaker. It's keeping a steady beat most of the time.

thanks for sharing this. It's great and also educational :)

This is so complex rhythmically that I don't know *how* to play along. I'm not sure if one should - it stands on its own - wow. This is a lesson here. Please send Alex my regards for his skill and sharing his cultural heritage.

Yes, I'm loving these great pieces from Alex - Fantastic! The recording quality has been excellent along the way as well.

Rythmic genius

I really love these, well recorded also,. BTW, I cant believe you didnt keep one of the kitchen cabinets on the drum room- those sounded awesome

Spirited playing. A lesson learned for me.

amazing playing! and when closing the eyes, it transports you there right way.. excellent drums!

norm, nice one man.

Very cool!

This is great that he played this with the "tape" running! Can I use this? I would not alter it, as you mentioned it shoud'nt be.

SWEET!!!!! This are some Awesome Beats!

Wow, sharp shooting voodoo! What a treat! Thanks for sharing!

magic rhythm

Keep pushing that envelope! Tell me again, as you recorded this, are you listening to the tuning as we hear it in the recording?

Lovely!

Provocative and powerful.

Great to hear some other Virginia musucians on this great website. You rock strong. I'm proud that you are from the Commonwealth. Look me up when you are in Roanoke if you would like to jam with a percussionist. Strong work!

Oh, how did I miss this rocker? Strong on many levels.

Yes! This rocks hard.

This is a lovely song with great lyrics. It stands on it's own without any percussion - to my ear it was too delicate to put any percussion to except just a touch of shaker. Nice work! As usual from you, great vox.

Ahh, Vibraphone & Piano: 2 of my favorite *percussion* instruments. I'll go on an expedition with you any time! (Way hip kite surfing photo)

Ha! This was great fun for me generating a large number of interesting spooky noises -all acoustically- in my laboorratory. The chilling errie wind sound was created with a long spring, attached to the head of a small hand drum (known as a “spring drum”, of course) and the “opening crypt” sound was generated by running my thumb nail down the spring under tension. And any time I get to hit the 30” Paiste gong, you know I’m smiling –evilly in this case.

Yes, RW's sitar works very well here. Nice! I confess that I don't know what a tenpura is, but then I thought a hurdy-gurdy had something to do with a busking monkey... now I realize its a wheel fiddle, which I've never come close to seeing or hearing. I still want one of those things with the monkey hitting folks up for change in his little cup, whatever it's called.

Which ferret is the witch ferret?

I agree with Beth: definite Spanish flavor to this one. Very nice!

@Jarvis: A bandoneon is a type of concertina, sort of like an accordion, popular in Argentina... Piazolla is considered to be one of the masters of this instrument, (good question... I had to look it up myself). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandoneon

Ha! That's rich. All he wants is a regular cello, "like all the other cello people". But you gave a nice pitch for the electric bitchin' cello... I feel your pain, brother! A million drums and my kids want to play sax, flute and piano! Very nice work here, Dylan!

Still fresh and new, once again. Outstanding.

This is still fantastic. I'm sorry about your toothbrush.

Still awesome!

Exotic.

Wow great song. Your inspiration must be something else! Well done! Great collaboration.

Most excellent!