The Drum spotlights Andrew Drury as a composer/improviser/soloist who renders 53 minutes of solo floor tom music not as a tedious exercise in sado-narcissism, but rather as a mind opening and surprisingly appealing manifesto on acoustic experimentalism. And he does so without ever actually striking the drum, employing extended techniques he has developed that treat his drum as a wind instrument and acoustic filter for friction.
"...an ingenious work that highlights Drury's fertile imagination, audacious musicianship and unparalleled virtuosity."
--Hrayr Attarian, All About Jazz
"Andrew Drury's imagination knows no bounds." --S. Victor Aaron, Something Else!
"Nobody to my knowledge has done so thorough and creative a job unveiling the untraditional sound possibilities (of a single drum) and working to create a series of aural segments, each unique. The music gotten by these means seems to be both very primal and ultra-avant, noisy but resonantly acoustic. It is a rather amazing album..." --Grego Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate Music Review
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Acoustic, solo, improvised compositions recorded on a single floor tom with a few additional objects (faucet escutcheon, bell, aluminum sheet) over several late night sessions in the summers of 2013 and 2014. I used two mics and a few edits but otherwise no overdubs, effects, electronics, etc.
“...an ingenious work that highlights Drury's fertile imagination, audacious musicianship and unparalleled virtuosity.”
--Hrayr Attarian, All About Jazz
“Andrew Drury’s imagination knows no bounds.”
--S. Victor Aaron, Something Else!
“Nobody to my knowledge has done so thorough and creative a job unveiling the untraditional sound possibilities (of a single drum) and working to create a series of aural segments, each unique. The music gotten by these means seems to be both very primal and ultra-avant, noisy but resonantly acoustic. It is a rather amazing album...”
--Grego Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate Music Review
“It sounds like someone is tearing a hole in the fabric of earth where we are standing. (...) This is one of the most unsettling discs I’ve heard in a long while. A strange and bizarre rarity. Challenge yourself.”
--Bruce Gallanter, DMG Newsletter
credits
released March 1, 2015
performed, recorded, mixed, & produced by Andrew Drury
mastered by Chris Hoffman
design by Luke Lorbiecki
Special Thanks: Alissa Schwartz, Max & Cedar Drury, April Schwartz, Don & Elizabeth Drury, Marty Khan/Outward Visions, Robert O'Haire, Ron Stabinsky, Jack Wright, Dan Peck, Catherine Pavlov, Jim Staley
(c)(p) 2015 Andrumo Music BMI all rights reserved
originally released as Soup & Sound Recordings 50002
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