An intrumental Track I put together when Thinking about my family. One Guitar represents my son, one my wife and one me...... Two Versions with Vox (Jim Higgins and Geir Alfsen) are also in existance.. not sure how to link to this site…

It was a curious and wondrous thing. One night I was in my studio adding some percussion to the "Quiet Rituals" track by Barry van Oudtshoorn, when my 4 young children (with whom I was long over-due to be tucking into bed and reading a bed…

It was a curious and wondrous thing. One night I was in my studio adding some percussion to the "Quiet Rituals" track by Barry van Oudtshoorn, when my 4 young children (with whom I was long over-due to be tucking into bed and reading a bed…

Ok, so I'm just a percussionist, and if your only tool is a hammer, the entire world looks like a nail. I get it. And I also get that our songs are our children, so we should be very careful about whom we let them play with. When I first heard…

Conga improvisation. It could really use some vintage surf-style guitar work... 4/8 180bpm.

Improvisation on congas and very fragile, clay Moroccan bongos (which my brother found for me from an African display at some zoo!). These bongos are basically clay pots with permanent, very thin goat skins stretched over the top - they can not…

A piece of music written during the tumult of grad school applications. The idea is for the saxophone and drums to be in rhythmic opposition for the majority of the written segments. The piece is in 9/8 and centered around minor 7ths and tritones.

Miles Davis' tune Nardis overlaid on Senegalese call-and-response drum rhythms.

One of the greatest songs loosened up a bit.

Getting a little more spacey with some Moog timbres. 2010