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    Spring update

    Spring update

    A brief update of my recent musical activities: I played percussion on the sound track to the recent channel 4 mini-series "Indian Summers". The percussion for all 9 episodes was recorded live as a trio made up of myself, Kuljit Bhamra, and Paul Clarvis, and the sessions were at Air Studios The percussion texture we ended up going with was based around Kuljit's tabla sound with Paul and I filling things out - I played alot of Mridangam and Ghatam (South Indian drums) plus so

    End of summer update

    This summer has been full of various interesting musical things here are a few selected highlights: A couple of months back I played on the sound track for a French cartoon called "Yellow Bird' (music composed by Stephen Warbeck) . This was probably the most interesting and enjoyable film session i've been involved with as muscially the film moved around various continents as the Yellow Bird migrated!..... This music was recorded at Air Studio 1 + I shared percussion duties w
    Warbeck session at Air Studios + Ivor Cutler + Nick Pynn

    Warbeck session at Air Studios + Ivor Cutler + Nick Pynn

    Last Sunday I played percussion on a Spanish film for composer Stephen Warbeck. - the film was about the late golfer Seve Ballesteros and the session took place at Air Studio 1 - the music had a spanish/folk/filmic type sound. I used a rope tentioned Alfaia drum which I played with brushes for alot of the session but also played some tambourines, frames drums, shakers and surdo. Frank Ricotti was playing Vibraphone and Marimba on the session and listening to him play was an e
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