Note: These recording sessions may be Ustreamed - http://www.ustream.tv/ live and video recorded for a later date. Stay tuned for further details!
The week long recording sessions will be built around two album concepts.
1. Trance-Ambient (long-form conduction)
2. Industrial Jazz (structured improvisation)
Featuring:
Muruga Booker - Nada drum/drumset
Booker first played the accordion before taking up drums as a pre-teen. He studied drums under Misha Bischoff, a Russian music teacher. He first professionally played drums with "The Low Rocks" in Detroit as Steve Booker. Under that name he also achieved local recognition playing with the "Thunder Rocks" and Ted Lucas and The Spike Drivers, and was known for his long, driving drum solos. He shared the bill at venues like Detroit's Eastown Theatre and Grande Ballroom with Ted Nugent (2/23/70), Traffic (6/5/70 & 6/6/70), Jack Bruce (2/13/70 & 2/14/70), and others....
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Note: These recording sessions may be Ustreamed - http://www.ustream.tv/ live and video recorded for a later date. Stay tuned for further details!
The week long recording sessions will be built around two album concepts.
1. Trance-Ambient (long-form conduction)
2. Industrial Jazz (structured improvisation)
Featuring:
Muruga Booker - Nada drum/drumset
Booker first played the accordion before taking up drums as a pre-teen. He studied drums under Misha Bischoff, a Russian music teacher. He first professionally played drums with "The Low Rocks" in Detroit as Steve Booker. Under that name he also achieved local recognition playing with the "Thunder Rocks" and Ted Lucas and The Spike Drivers, and was known for his long, driving drum solos. He shared the bill at venues like Detroit's Eastown Theatre and Grande Ballroom with Ted Nugent (2/23/70), Traffic (6/5/70 & 6/6/70), Jack Bruce (2/13/70 & 2/14/70), and others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muruga_Booker
David Leikam - Moog Rogue/electric bass
Leikam was born in April 1972 in Stanford, CA with mild cerebral palsy affecting the left side of his body. Since his first solo piano recording in January 1988 with the now defunct San Francisco Bay Area improvisational music collective, Friday Night Music (an active member/producer from 1985-1994 and 1999-2006), he has been associated with such music luminaries as Keith Jarrett, Wadada Leo Smith, Kidd Jordan, Perry Robinson, William Parker, Eddie Gale, Warren Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Lou Reed, James Gurley, Steven “Muruga” Booker, Robert Rich, and cEvin Key. He is largely a self taught multi-instrumentalist with a latter formal education in Audio Engineering (Live/Studio 1997) at the Musicians Institute, Music Composition (BFA 2001) and African American Improvisational Music (MFA 2006) studies at the California Institute of the Arts. He is currently producing the industrial jazz unit zBug since 2006 and involved with a number of duet collaborations with Wadada Leo Smith, Eddie Gale, Areni Agbabian, Thomas Merácz, Joseph Straub, and Lucas Rodenbush aka EBE since 1996.
http://davidLeikam.net/dLeikam/bio.html
... including Perry Robinson with perhaps Badal Roy, John Churchville, and others in the mix!
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