Dana and Patrick... Wife and Husband
A married couple... Drums and Bass...
Music is a glue of our union
We practice the "rhythm method" and know how to "Funk all night"!
We are saturated by musical eclectica... our tastes are wide and still evolving.
When it's good...our eyes close... we play as one.
Wanna hear some samples? Head over to the Projects.
A clue... When we finally folded our album collections together (yes vinyl!), we beheld amazement. We had some of the same exact albums.. not just “The White Album” but some of the most obscure stuff like.. Jamaladen Tacuma “Renaissance Man” and Kraftwerk, “Der AutoBann”. What really is amazing to me is that we each brought complementary albums fill out some artists' discographies.
Just meant to be!
Dana loves raw musical energy.
Classically trained and the first female drum line captain, Dana has been playing drummage since she was 11 years old.
Perhaps a love spawned from early influences of Hardcore and Post Punk shows. These influences span through to explosive dichotomies like Jane's Addiction. Her tastes have evolved to include gut wrenchin' rock'n blues (especially The North Mississippi Allstars) and celtic fusions (Tartan Amoebas and Brother) to far reaching Post-rave fusions including the likes of The Chemical Brothers and Crystal Method.
Dana really likes to dance.
If you make it bake... then it's gonna shake.
You got a rippin' slide? She's gonna smile wide.
You have bag pipes?.. watch out!
But please.. leave the wailing women at home!
Patrick has always had a flair for capturing sounds.
As a child my sister an I would drive the folks nutz singing jingles and repeating whole commercials (ooey, gooey, rich and chewy...).
My last formal music instruction was 6th grade violin. A path that I wish had worked out. The intonation skills could have saved years. I was too embarrassed to practice at home and unless you are blessed with a miraculous intervention, a 12 year old's first 3 months with a violin can make cat sex sound... delicious.
As a freshman, I took my first bass with me to East Carolina University following the driven dream of the self taught musician. Unknowingly, I auditioned through the transom of my dorm room and "got the part" after owning a bass for 3 months. I have been blessed to have played music with many kind souls who would share and teach. After 22 years, many bands later, some informal lightweight music theory from two brilliant folks, and practice, practice, practice; I can finally "play my ear".
Musically, I swim in fusions... ever leaning towards Funk imbued improvisations. I thrive on contrapuntal compositions... haunted by fugues, yet I love tribal hypno-rhythms. I enjoy most any "world music" - African and midlle eastern lineages sure, but especially Irish / Celtic feels... less the lonesome ballad, more the reels and jigs.
I have always been a juxtapositionist of the absurd... I often thrive on the synergy of comparing widely disparate subjects and music.. sounds are not immune. I embrace both "the pretty" and "the ugly", a creative balance first shown to me long ago by a punk rocker friend who was first chair violinist.
Overall I cherish the subtle nuances and textures in our audible world; whether it is the shimmering early reflections emanating from a harp in a granite room or the grinding-tearing wail of old tubes in a Fender amp.
Critical Listening... A skill I continue to develop through 15 active years in the music industry as a live audio engineer. but fuels the "fire on the balance beam". A seasoned engineer
I am recently enthralled by Zilla and having never attended Burning Man... I really wouldn't mind experiencing Mutaytor.
Cats.. oh yeah.. cats... man how!
We gots cats! 4 to be sure and no more (in the house).
