Our latest album, "Drumstruck". This is an all-drumming CD, with both exciting and meditative songs. I didn't forget the lyrics pages - there are no lyrics on this album!
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Ascension - MP3 (378kb, 55s)
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Each of our lives is a journey, a struggle for direction and purpose. Windswept we are, feeling the energy of the intellect, but driven by the physical - the pounding of drums in a pattern that weaves us around and around until we find ourselves, moving ever upward in a journey. The drums and wind - the mind and the body - call to us and we follow them. The spirit, low and droning in the form of a deep, scratchy viola di gamba, goes right along with us - sometimes pushing us on, sometimes holding us back. It is a journey and we are called upon at the end to leave the safety of the physical, jumping up into the unknown.
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Mandala - MP3 (224kb, 32s)
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A play of sevens with overlighting threes, this song is a Mandala of sound. With a pattern representing heaven over earth, balance and harmony with self, it is a playful wall of sound. Focus on a single point and jump in, if you dare.
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Journey - MP3 (299kb, 56s)
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You're in the woods, perhaps walking in your sleep, but very much drawn in by the sound of drums in the distance. What seems to be solid rock covered in vines becomes a cave and you step inside. Down the path, cool and damp, to an underground cavern. Dancers and drummers - strange visions and animals, creatures of imagination - as you walk out of your mundane life and into a dream…
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Paikea - MP3 (237kb, 34s)
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This song celebrates the journey of Paikea, the whale rider who journeyed from Eastern Polynesia to New Zealand on the back of a whale. It conjures up visions of the majestic Maori people and the endurance of creatures that challenged and survived the story seas.
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The Exotic Mating Dance of the Rare Glowing Northern Antarctic Forest Squid - MP3 (286kb, 41s)
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Long, long ago the elves played drums at a Renaissance Festival, capturing everyone within earshot with their magical sounds. The people joined them, playing wooden sticks and bowls, tankards, benches, cowbells and one another. Soon the glade was alive with rhythm and everyone moved to the patterns of it. In the magic of that moment, everyday people saw uncommon things. The woods were filled with distant lights and strange sounds - could it be a candle? I don't think so. Could it be the pub? I don't think so? Could it be a squid?
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Drum Circle - MP3 (256kb, 37s)
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It's 3 in the morning and the drumming has hit the groove. The fire has died down to embers and coal, with occasional sparks and crackling. In the hours before dawn, the drums take on a life of their own, moving around the circle and in and out of the dreams of those who sleep in the clearing nearby.
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Sunrise - MP3 (342kb, 50s)
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Sunrise and sunset, the grey times between light and darkness, and something within you begins to awaken. The song is a dreamscape, surreal and seamless. You have a sense you are waking from a dream into a different landscape from the one where you fell asleep. Something is coming, but it is something from within.
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Rifka's Dream - MP3 (252kb, 36s)
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Rifka, a young Hungarian girl who travels the countryside with her mother in a gypsy wagon, falls asleep with her deck of cards. The queen of faerie and her court ride through her dreams, and all the other creatures of Elfame celebrate as they ride. Swept up, the people of the village join in as the queen's entourage flies by on tiny horses.
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Raks al Beledi - MP3 (270kb, 39s)
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In the marketplace, belly dancers perform and drummers join them. It is a scene played out hundreds of times in the heat of the summer. This time, the drummers are joined by elves who cannot leave a good rhythm alone. They embellish it, running away with the basic rhythm, adding rolls and flourishes. The dancers join in, adding rolls and flourishes of their own… Raks al Beledi - the dance of the village folk.
