super good https://rhythmplex.bandcamp.com/album/tongues
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
I can think of lots of drummer solo albums but drums aren't the focus of most of them. Moon doesn't even *play* drums on his solo album iirc.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:24 (seven years ago) link
i didn't know what to call the thread that wouldn't make it unwieldy -- i am looking for drummers' albums where the drummer plays drums and maybe there are some vocal elements or other instruments, but the focus is on drumming
i feel like there must be a bunch i don't know!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
frank rosaly has a few solo albums where he plays drums + electronics but i only have one of them
Glen Velez, solo frame drum with incredible sound:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J1bnyeHuuU
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
Deantoni Parks' album should count since it's a live solo performance, if you watch his videos he's playing samples on a keyboard with his right hand and playing hi-hat/snare with his left:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-GlTMZrZnU&list=PLaucXuwTx3L9TnHoxz96j0yXlOwNk8Tsx
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link
I can think of lots of drum duo/trio/percussion ensemble albums, but will think about more solo albums and report back tomorrow.
duos and trios are interesting too! post them all!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
like i am not particularly interested in classically schooled percussion ppl playing a compositionthe creativity required to generate an album's worth of drum music by oneself (or with another drummer or two) is interesting to me
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:32 (seven years ago) link
oh oh oh, Susie Ibarra's 'Drum Sketches' album is FANTASTIC top to bottom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vetb3KnLcHc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSn2iW4ixGs
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:34 (seven years ago) link
Here's a couple from the 70s that fit the bill and are OK in parts,
http://www.mediaboom.org/uploads/posts/2016-04/1460404486_r-2225328-1270905882.jpeg.jpg
http://shop.cdkrakovska.cz/24030-thickbox_default/zabba-w-lindner-carsten-bohn-vollbedienung-of-percussion.jpg
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link
Here's an album of really nice drum duo performances:https://tonyfalco.bandcamp.com/album/origin
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link
i'm guessing there must be some christian vander records along these lines.
― new noise, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk9NaHsobew
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
Glenn Kotche:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwekSyWxcgg
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah! Forgot about him!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lci01iu8WRk
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:41 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlo1XvJXsr0
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFdhUBWEyOw
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzVjLEzN36M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8wI49h-4qY
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
(Obviously lots of drummers^!)
John French did a solo drum album called O Solo Drumbo. Included a bunch of Beefheart drum parts, at least one French-Frith-Kaiser-Thompson. I didn't recognize all the song titles.
Also the Tortoise percussionists did a project as Bumps.
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link
I have this percussion record by Stomu Yamashta, Red Buddha. Interesting, but I don't play it very often.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQp6yPOum_A
― You're going to see a lot of love. Okay? Thank you. (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQytfoovpjc
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9oW5qojs_g
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Les-Batteries-Noisy-Champs/master/452486
three drummers make a solo album together
― sleeve, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:16 (seven years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/NRd0tB-Rztif30s88JZQ6n3n2js=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1130247-1194473145.png.jpg
Chris Corsano - The Young Cricketer
― ogmor, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:16 (seven years ago) link
is that him? decent legspin action
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
Baby Dodds — Talking and Drum Solos
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
I think I tried to do this thread - or something similar - once a few years ago and didn't get many answers. Looking forward to checking some of this stuff out.
― how's life, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link
once saw max roach play a mesmerising half-hour* solo on just a single cymbal**, wish that had become a record
*might actually have been longer **his kit was him on a stool and the cymbal on a stand and that's it
― mark s, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:28 (seven years ago) link
Jack dejohnette led a number of ecm style jazz LPs not all of which are on ecm and what I remember of them makes me want to revisit
Also Paul motian led a bunch of ecm type shit which I want to hear because I read somewhere that he is a great example of the use of rubato in drumming which, from a rubato-loving-guitarist pov, interests me v much
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
Also there's a keiji haino album where he takes to solo percussion iirc?
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
Oh well, solo percussion is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8bIgrDA8-E
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:41 (seven years ago) link
oh, my thread was on the sandbox and it was a little more specific and there were a few answers.
http://beta.ilxor.com/sandbox/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=142&threadid=1699
I remember that I was inspired to start that thread when I heard Pete Might Spook the Horses by Heads, Hands, and Feet. It's not even a completely drum song, but I felt like I could live in the solos.
― how's life, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 23:57 (seven years ago) link
http://www.freewebs.com/teejo/bolts/johnsolo.jpg
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 00:00 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ6on9ZaNeE
Also Paul motian led a bunch of ecm type shit
was trying to think if anything of his fit the bill... maybe his soundtrack to punishment park?
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
There's a double CD of Christian Vander (Magma dude) drum solos called Korusz, can't say I've listened to it more than once tbh.
https://img.discogs.com/vcHnynP1_oytRi0iQ_W7n9DR4ko=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5387022-1392110545-9241.jpeg.jpg
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 00:25 (seven years ago) link
two albums by groups led by grateful dead drummershttps://img.discogs.com/rnTn4EtLH0C-TYYF4cdJntZ-UGw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1760887-1477881293-4592.jpeg.jpghttps://img.discogs.com/wr8B0AZKv6kCQpAfztC5zNL2KMc=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1722952-1422470541-5732.jpeg.jpg
― mizzell, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 00:39 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmdDkxV0208
saunier + chippendale
― ogmor, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 00:43 (seven years ago) link
batucada fantastica by luciano perrone
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 01:02 (seven years ago) link
patrice sciortino - percussion power
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 01:07 (seven years ago) link
He and Ringo both play on "The Kids Are Alright" on Two Sides Of The Moon, but not very well. Keith never practiced, which wasn't an issue so much when the Who were active (which they were steadily through 1973), but if they took six months or a year off, his playing atrophied quickly. Most of the drums on his album are played by Jim Keltner, with the late Miguel Ferrer playing on one track.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 01:34 (seven years ago) link
Fuck all that jazz stuff. Did you know that the best Replacements solo album is Chris Mars' Horseshoes and Hand Grenades?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fuptlWpz30
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 04:54 (seven years ago) link
idk if this qualifies under your criteria but I like the one album dave narcizo (well, basically most of throwing muses) released as lakuna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pXcCmzhDdk
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 05:07 (seven years ago) link
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3:18 PM (seven hours ago)
that is not chris corsano.
Milford Graves got the important obligatory mention already
off the top of my head:Zach Hill's Astrological Straits, WW put out something recently like this but I haven't heard it, there's a compilation called "Just Drums" (there might be two volumes) that are short tracks by a bunch of different contemporary drummers/percussion ppl. Kevin She@ gave it to me for free because he was genuinely amazed and surprised by my enthusiasm for purchasing the albums by People (his project with Mary Halvorson -- also worth a listen). I think outside of Kevin and Mary, I think that me and WW are the only two serious fans of that band.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 07:04 (seven years ago) link
if you want, I can send you a not-the-best-recording of the thing I did last year that was basically solo drums + electronics (when I opened for Chris Corsano)
― sarahell, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 07:05 (seven years ago) link
Paal Nilssen-Love has a couple of these, Miro and 27 Years Later.
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 08:18 (seven years ago) link
Bruce Ditmas - Yellow Dust (always seems impressive and like something I should like when I dip in but never quite listened to the whole thing through).
Mickey Hart surely has a whole bunch. I like this 90s Supralingua album - global / tribal / drum circle type thing, more going especially vocals but the focus is drums.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 09:16 (seven years ago) link
used to own this solo drummer compilation feat Fugazi, Don Cab, Storm & Stress personnel: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Membranaphonics/release/3221752
it was a neat idea but not that exciting to actually listen to iirc
― Vlogs from other credible bands such as Shed Seven (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 09:41 (seven years ago) link
recently been digging this album by a British experimental dude called Jaxson Payne. it's kind of late 80s sounding house/techno (makes me think of Bang The Party or someone like that?) played live on MIDI drums all in one take
― Vlogs from other credible bands such as Shed Seven (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 09:45 (seven years ago) link
Great thread, will make time to check some stuff out.
Recently I've fallen in love with Jay Daniel's Broken Knowz album from late last year. A young DJ/producer from Detroit who's been drumming almost all his life. The album's based on his live drumming which he then combined with programmed drums (MPC) and keys (Fender Rhodes, Juno 106, RX). It's a really beguiling and absorbing listen. "Paradise Valley" is so beautiful.
― willem, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 10:15 (seven years ago) link
if you want, I can send you a not-the-best-recording of the thing I did last year that was basically solo drums + electronicsyes please!!
i am going to dig into these ASAP, thank you all for the recommendations some names are familiar but i've never heard any of these :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:17 (seven years ago) link
Love this one. Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt, a Floyd and assorted other folk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEoN0QApLSM
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:30 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCzjnE5dmts
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:31 (seven years ago) link
Think these come under the category of 'any album made by a drummer'.
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:38 (seven years ago) link
eh. ok.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
Neal Morgan, who I know best from his drumming with Joanna Newsom (prior to her last album), released a few albums of drums and multi-tracked vocals. The first one in particular, To The Breathing World I think was really enjoyable. This seems like the best place to listen online, he's fairly under-represented on YouTube.
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/neal-morgan-to-the-breathing-world/373995-01/
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
Andrew Cyrille: "What About?" from 1969.Jerome Cooper: "The Unpredictability of Predictability" from 1979.
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:02 (seven years ago) link
andrew cyrille and milford graves did a record together called "dialogue of the drums" on their label ips (institute of percussive studies)
― budo jeru, Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:53 (seven years ago) link
Stewart Copeland's Rumblefish soundtrack is probably my favorite thing along these lines
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 March 2017 19:52 (seven years ago) link
Also the Birdman soundtrack.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 9 March 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
Billy Martin has a really great solo album from '02 (I think he's super underrated because of MMW's jam band associations):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwORqecCebQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XaXCusqqko
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 9 March 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
^ Really nice!
It's interesting there are a lot of straight ahead records with drummers as "leaders" but very few of them are classic records - Max Roach and Tony Williams have some great ones but there aren't a lot of others that come to mind.
That said I've been into this Jo Jones Trio record lately. It seems like in a lot of cases they're not all that different from other jazz trio/quartet/quintet records except that they feature the drummer a little more prominently and maybe the drummer's compositions. Here it seems like they mic'd/mixed things so the drums are more prominent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiV8QVueu0s
I also discovered there's a Jo Jones/Milt Hinton duo record where Jo Jones plays percussion. Want to give it a good headphone listen, not really good for office listening.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 10 March 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link
I dunno, like Billy Cobhams Spectrum? That's classic. More recently, I love the two or three Brian Blade records, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 March 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
I've had a copy of Reebop Kwaku Baah & Ganoua - Trance. Another one that seems like it should be great but the lo-fi recording doesn't work that well in this instance.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 10 March 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
Um...Art Blakey, maybe?
And I'm just starting to dig into his discography, but Elvin Jones has some amazing late '60s/early '70s records.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:49 (seven years ago) link
I've got a ton of great jazz records led by drummers (thinking Joe Chambers, Billy Drummond, Herlin Riley, etc), but that's another thread.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
a duo record here:
https://www.discogs.com/Derek-Bailey-Jamie-Muir-Dart-Drug/master/110081
I still can't think of any true "totally solo" drummer records other than the Milford Graves and Corsano ones mentioned.
― sleeve, Friday, 10 March 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link
Man, this thread led me to discover this '87 record by Bob Moses and Billy Martin, it's insane. Lots of electronic loops and '80s effects, West African drumming over gated reverb beats, this has to be a treasure trove for a certain kind of dj, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE_kMOaaFxg&list=PLNOQTYAhGu92OGs57-xGCEdlDOi46FymU&index=6
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 10 March 2017 16:03 (seven years ago) link
trying that embed again:
https://youtu.be/SE_kMOaaFxg?list=PLNOQTYAhGu92OGs57-xGCEdlDOi46FymU
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 10 March 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
new kid millions/man forever sounds promising! http://ravelinmagazine.com/posts/man-forever-plays-what-kid-millions-has-always-wanted/#content
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
Ronald Shannon Jackson's Puttin' On Dog is nothing but drums and vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDXegO6MylQ
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/306/MI0002306282.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
Side 1 of this fits the bill. Side 2 adds Carter Jefferson on saxes, Jon Faddis and Lew Soloff on trumpets for a return to your previously scheduled programming. The first half is a tutorial in african, cuban, and afro-cuban polyrhythms.
― j arthur rank, Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
Solo track on Tony Williams' Spring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnTEPOOl2DE
― Eazy, Thursday, 6 July 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
Pretty much anything by Eiko Ishibashi, esp Carapace and Imitation of Life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gp3JE9XagY
― MaresNest, Thursday, 6 July 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
https://img1.etsystatic.com/044/1/7167637/il_570xN.651265039_t9kc.jpg
i love this.the first real tack>>head album basically.
― mark e, Thursday, 6 July 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
Tony's Spring and Life Time are such incredible records. It's really a shame Tony didn't do a whole string of albums like that. Taking nothing away from Emergency! and (turn it over), those Blue Note dates hinted at a fascinating compositional voice that, sadly, never re-emerged.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 6 July 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
The Mi-Gu (drummer from Cornelius' band) self titled record is ace too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AIjT3jL2tQ
― MaresNest, Thursday, 6 July 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
Not strictly solo drums, but this 1977 duets album by Max Roach and Abdullah Ibrahim has some pretty great moments.
― Austin, Friday, 7 July 2017 03:01 (six years ago) link
Really enjoying the new Andrea Belfi album:
https://andreabelfi.bandcamp.com/album/ore
― cwkiii, Monday, 24 July 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
never heard of that guy but he does sound interesting!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 24 July 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
Reggie Watts to thread.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=344OpaQCAQI
John McEntire - Reach The Rock (OMPS), et al.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coFNfX6GNBo
Not drumming per se, but any chance to revisit the funky grooves of Mark's Keyboard Repair is welcomed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLoNNHAeV0Y&index=5&list=PLAE2A55CE262F866F
― bodacious ignoramus, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
Eddie Prevost (AMM) has several totally solo records, e.g. this one:
https://www.discogs.com/Eddie-Pr%C3%A9vost-Material-Consequences/release/432072
this was a split album with Organum, but still awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3lW68FxmXI
― sleeve, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
My high school drum teacher put out his first album of solo drums this year, and it's great. Really melodic and not about chops, more like drum lullabies at times.
https://daveschoepke.bandcamp.com/https://open.spotify.com/album/6Adz9EMIoPxuy2vjEYLYEV?si=wMui5bdpSVit_2ufHzm9mg
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 30 September 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
cool!
here's two more:
https://www.discogs.com/Cleve-Pozar-Solo-Percussion/release/4341542
https://www.discogs.com/Sun-City-Girls-Piano-Bar-For-Drummers-Only/release/797635
― sleeve, Monday, 30 September 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
Great thread, hadn't seen it before. Harry Bertoia built these sound sculptures and recorded albums of them---pretty fine visual results too:Harry Bertoia
― dow, Monday, 30 September 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
Is this thread limited to jazz/rock/funk/etc? Cos I can think of more examples of solo percussion albums in classical music than in those genres.
― Tuomas, Monday, 30 September 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
Not limited -- post away!
I went to see Kim So Ra last week and she was a phenomenal bandleader + i was super into her music. i bought the CD! i think it's called A Sign of Rain.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 30 September 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
Buddy Rich’s ‘The Roar of ‘74’ kinda blew my mind last week - caused me to fall down the ever entertaining Buddy Rich YouTube hole ...
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 30 September 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
Ha, I tried listening to that the other day and just couldn’t do it. It felt like a salesperson was shouting at me, arranged for a big band.Ultimately, the only Buddy Rich recordings I dig are the Lester Young Trio records with Nat King Cole, and the bus tapes.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 30 September 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
I like this drum solo, which seems just discreetly tweaked by DJ:https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/track/ecstatic-beat
Also wasn't some of Endtroducing turntables x live-in-the-studio drummer?
― dow, Monday, 30 September 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
Never heard that, I thought the whole point is that it was all samples?
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 30 September 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
Re: Buddy, I just wrote this on Twitter today
it's become so fashionable to hate on him because he was a fucking asshole + didn't play especially cool music + and has become shorthand for showing off, that I think he's actually underrated in a weird way— CHANTS (@ChantsWI) September 30, 2019
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 30 September 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
xpost maybe I'm thinking of a later album---doesn't he sometimes play drums, percussion?New one due in November:https://www.factmag.com/2019/09/23/dj-shadow-to-release-double-album-our-pathetic-age/
― dow, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
Stewart Copeland - "Rumblefish" soundtrack already mentioned, but also "The Rhythmatist"
In a similar English-drummer-in-Africa vein, Mick Fleetwood's "The Visitor"
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 04:01 (four years ago) link
Oh wait, Copeland's American. I'm an idiot.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
Robert Wyatt's "End of an Ear" was what jumped into my mind when I read the thread title.
― InternationalWaters, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
xpost maybe I'm thinking of a later album---doesn't he sometimes play drums, percussion?
Are you thinking of RJD2 maybe? He started with breaks, and then obsessively learned to engineer and play (and then sample) his own breaks to match the qualities of a nice & dirty '60s/'70s recording.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link