Drums, rhythm, and music from around the world; Afro-Cuban through the middle east to Polynesia, with a western sensibility.

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#		Title	Length	Sample
1		Dr. Scott's Boogie	3:17
2		Dumbek Tang	3:58
3		Shiko	2:28
4		Dream Bali	3:15
5		Jungle Talk	5:08
6		Concedric Circles	5:48
7		Baby Fishmouth	5:16
8		Persien Waltz	3:54
9		Mahalo a Hawaii	2:54
10		Cat O' Nine	3:34
11		Africaine	2:35
12		Winter Hills	5:47

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Scott Swearingen (thats me) lives in Austin, Tx, a metropolitan city where you can hear music and musical styles from all parts of the world: latin, african, middle eastern, oceana, and other points unknown. Growing up and living in the intersection of so many musical cultures, I am constantly listening for new ways to put things together. Teaching Sociology at a local University, I am constantly teaching about various cultures and their music. So it may be only natural that drums and drumming for me means playing drums and rhythms from many different cultures. Or it may be that playing dumbek for belly dancers and Greek musicians, toere for polynesian dancers, afro-cuban drums for capuera atrists and anything for Pure Pounding Pleasure keeps me thinking of world music in those terms. When I returned from a semester in Hawaii with my new Toere in hand, I started putting people together with similar sensibilities; Brett on the Congas and dun duns, Sonya (a belly dance teacher herself) on middle eastern drums, Nicole on the duns and whatever, and me on everything I could play. Then we added in some friends who play mostly eastern and Mediterranean strings, and put our own musical touches on it all. Our CD is Belaharr - hands - and we played it all in various places in Austin. More than half the songs on this CD were performed live with dancers on stage, and dancers in the audience. Because the hands are one part - the feet and bodies are the other. Drums ought to make you move, so move we did.
Although the rhythms are from around the world, the use of them comes from us, and we are westerners. We play them with a western sensibility - Sonyas phrase when we talk about the difference between pure african or middle eastern or polynesian playing of the rhythms, and our own. We in the west have grown up on the 3-5 minute song, with a verse and chorus structure, and mostly influenced by blues/jazz/rock phrasing. Much of the music in other parts of the world has a different sensibility to it - it is often longer, lacks the kind of breaks and patterns that we understand, etc. Here we took the basics from them and made them our own. We think its a good synthesis. We hope you will too. Its from all of our Worlds.