@Bee: I believe that you are referring to the first 3 off-beats of the measure, which are played on a wood-block heavily distorted with "gated reverb"... but I've never heard a chicken that sounds like that! :)

Love that rhythm Norm! What's the 3 repeated, quiet scraping sounds made by? Sounds a bit like a chicken! Interesting!

Wonderful Norm just wonderful.....I feel blessed....I've got my headphones on and Sebastian asleep in his crib beside me.......and have too keep taking them of because I'm sure he's crying in time ....very effective

If I could play drums like this my rhythm tracks would be much better. Enjoy just sitting back and listening to the many tones and varied rhythms.

thanks Norm - I bet Francis would have loved the persistent introspection of this groove! "..illumina le tenebre de lo core mio...

Excellent organic percussion! Solid gold.

Very, very interesting and addictive pattern here Norm.

Thanks Norm!!

thanks for the listen and rating!

I hear that

Very cool! I can explain the beer being gone!!

Oooo, 2.30 ish the little bit of quiver comes in. Nice! And, gets louder. Like it!

"4" does it for me. I like the, "I mean business" beats.

Ive done a collab with Mark , but never Tharek , this is a dream team , your percussion fits like a glove with this amazing song , i love it

I don't understand the Math behind it but I know it sounds Amazing! It is impressive the story you are able to tell with beats bro.

Very cool groovin' man

This is great mate really cool.

Dandy beat...I sort of got lost in it.

I like this just as a rhythm, mellow

Lovely swaying rhythm, O King of Ze Beats!

One of my all time favorite songs. Great job!

Awesome, sax man!

Beautiful, once again!

Menacing!

Great set. I really enjoyed it.

So when you are playing this song on the Fender Mustang, you are hearing it in Sorog tuning, right? But the note that you are playing on the guitar is changed to another pitch by the Roland, so you must have the headset plugged into the Roland output, right?

Vaisvil's response to my question was enlightening: wild stuff! "well, no actually, it is the Roland GR-20 that gets re-tuned. Performing in many tunings with acoustic instruments is problematic and while I've seen a few attempts none of them I could afford. One could de-fret and re-fret a guitar but not only is it time consuming you then have either many guitars or a commitment to one tuning for a good space of time. So.. long story short - musical electronics are making microtonal music practical. Of course this is purely from a western perspective - other cultures have been performing microtonal music for millennial. Or, as a Turkish composer told me - the west is the real microtonal music because its the compromise compared to other cultures."

This is brilliant. Perhaps my favorite of your work so far.

Way to collaborate, guys! Bravo!

Great tune/voice. It is interesting how a particular smell or sound can instantly summon the gift of recall.

You actually tune the Fender Mustang to the Sorog tuning, right?

You've done a great job of really listening to the conga pattern - you picked up the "melody" the drums are playing and duplicated it nicely with your guitars. Man, when I hear it together, it becomes very clear how off key my drum tuning is, and how a membranophone, by its very multi-tonal nature, is really tough to accompany when it is played in a melodic fashion. It is very brave of you Brian to even attempt to collaborate with such unconventional drumming – if I expect others to collaborate with my percussion tracks, I would probably be wise to produce patterns that are less melodic… and leave the melody up to my fellow collaborators on the chordophones, aerophones and electrophones. Well done!

The vocal harmony work on this one is right-on!

I still love it.

I've seen that video before, and always cherish it when I can have dreams like this at night. One of my favs! And listening to this song while watching it adds another dimension! Great voice, mix, orchestral support and over-all production. Well done!

Very nice!

Great voice work!

All of your stuff sounds so pro. Well done!

@Sha-Pink: Thanks! I have a wide variety of different drums - you can get one view of my studio from the cover of my "collaborations" playlist. Various congas, bongos, djembes, bass drums, bells and effects instruments... but no trap-set.

Yes! In the groove. I love it when that happens... it remains a mystery to me how that works, but I think part of it is really listening to each other.