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Back from Brazil

Posted on September 16th, 2009 by David.
Categories: All, Videos.

I just came back from the PercPan festival in Brasil. It was great to hang out and perform with my friends Ahmad Al-Khatib, Andrea Piccioni and Angela, and Marcus Suzano. Also there is a new Frame Drum Video Podcast featuring Daf player Shekoofeh Pariab from Iran. This one was recorded at Tamburi Mundi in Freiburg.

and the new Podcast:

for a dowload link to the High Quality version of the podcast go to www.percussion-net.com.

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Early music

Posted on September 16th, 2009 by David.
Categories: All, Audio, Videos, news.

One of my early music ensembles “Per Far Lieto” with Catalina Vicens on Organetto was recently featured on Harmonia Early Music Radio with some tracks from our upcoming CD. The recording is online, we are about 30 minutes into the show:

We recorded a video a couple of weeks ago:

and here is another one of a collaboration between the early music ensembles Cordatum and Rayuela, also a track from an upcoming record release. This one was recorded around midnight, after a full day of recording and evening concert .

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Advanced Riq DVD

Posted on September 16th, 2009 by David.
Categories: All, Videos, news.

The advanced Riq DVD is finally released. Lots of the footage was shot in Tunisia about a year ago, but it took me quite a while finishing the editing.
Its available from framedrums.net and percussion-net.com.

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advanced frame drums 1 and 2 DVDs

Posted on March 20th, 2009 by David.
Categories: All, Videos, general news, news.

My advanced frame drum DVDs are finally out. It was a long journey and the project went through many rough spots. I’m especially excited about number 2 because I ended up re-recording 80% of the DVD in my own studio, and I think it’s the best one so far, or at least the one which is closest to how I had it in mind.

The DVDs are available from my website and from percussion-net, check out the trailer:

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Back from Istanbul

Posted on March 20th, 2009 by David.
Categories: All, Videos.

I just came back from Istanbul. What an amazing city with an incredible percussion scene. The latest podcasts features Mehmet Akatay on Riq. His technique is from a different world and he’s amazingly fun to play with.

download high quality video or watch it streaming from youtube:

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video podcast 18 – attaching things to frame drums

Posted on March 20th, 2009 by David.
Categories: All, Videos.

This one is about adding shaker, jingles and other things to frame drums. The attachment system you see in the video was developed together with my genius grandfather .

download high quality version or watch it streaming from youtube:

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New DVDs

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by David.
Categories: All, Videos, news.

I’m in the postproduction process of 3 new instructional DVDs. 2 For advanced frame drums, one focussing on the style of Glen Velez, another one on techniques transferred from the Iranian percussion tradition. The 3rd DVD is about advanced Riq styles. Different styles of shaking, jingle rolls, fingerrolls, rhythms from the middle-east, Tunisia and modern grooves. No definite release date yet, but here are the trailers:

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New Instrument Shop

Posted on August 30th, 2008 by David.
Categories: Links, news.

I updated the instrument page with videos of my favourite drums. You can also order them directly from there.

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Percussion-net online

Posted on August 24th, 2008 by David.
Categories: All, Links, general news.

Together with Thorralf Schuh we are working on a website that is built around free percussion tutorials for all kinds of hand-drums. For now there are online tutorials by Randy Gloss, Pete Lockett, N.Scott Robinson, Raquy Danziger and me and instructional videos featuring Glen Velez, Marcus Suzano, Tommy Hayes, River Guerguerian, Itamar Doari, N.Scott Robinson, Vladiswar Nadishana, Rafael Pereira, Andrea Piccioni, Hatem Hamila, Hatem Ammous.

You might now some of the material from my website, but there is original stuff too and hopefully it will grow. If you’re a professional and interesting in contributing, let me know. There is also a forum, a chat and all kinds of features available to registered users. Click on the image to check it out.

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Tamburi Mundi 2008

Posted on August 24th, 2008 by David.
Categories: All, general news.

The Tamburi Mundi is a frame drum festival happening once a year in Germany and it grows rapidly. Frame Drummers this year included Glen Velez, Mehmet Akatay, Behnam Samani, Marcus Suzano, Michael Metzler, Nora Thiele, Andrea Piccioni, Sattor Fozilov, Neyveli Venkatesh and so many more, you can check the whole Line-up at the TM Website. The pretty amazing event is organized by Murat Coskun, who somehow also manages to teach and perform.

And a video-podcast with Marcus Suzano:

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