My current band is the Water WALKERS.  I played with Wide OPEN out of Seattle Washington for 18 years
I wtite and compose music. I concider myself a humantitarin, caring for all the world. This philosophy Shows in the progression of my music. I also sing and have been gifted with a great voice. Make a loud noise and leave a good impression is what Im about. Comming to a venue near you

Inspired by acoustic instrumental and vocal music from all over the world, especially North India, North Africa, Middle-Eastern, Eastern European and Celtic music, musical lineages from many sources find  new life in “living world music” songs and percussion compositions by singer and percussionist Marco Zonka.   

Accompanist and soloist on tabla, bendir, tar, udu, conga, djembe, and other “finger-style” drums, Zonka is a supporting vocalist and percussionist for singers and instrumentalists in many genre, including Hindustani, Celtic, Kirtan, Eastern European, Bulgarian, Early and Medieval music. 
As a contemporary percussionist and singer-songwriter, Zonka presents “living world music” events with world music performance ensembles, with an emphasis on music that inspires movement. 
As a soloist Zonka ranges from minimalistic acoustic “voice and drum” performance; esthetic or shamanic & ceremonial; to “techno-world” mix-meister using world  “Loop-J” miasma, synthesizer sound-beds & fat sonic-pads, with “live” and prerecord “loops” over beds of digital drum and bass.

Zonka studied with many great living exponents of classical Indian music and drumming, including maestros Ali Akbar Khan, Allah Rakha, Zakir Hussain, and Swapan Chauduri, has toured with sitarists Shivnath Mishra & son Deobrat, and other contemporary and traditional world music artists including Babu Kishan Das, Ashana Lobody, Snatam Kaur, Gina Sala, Jaya Lakshmi, Shanti Shivani, Fariba Heyraneh, Lakshmi Devi, and others.

Zonka facilitates drum and music groups learning a simple yet universal spoken “vocabulary of rhythm and music” using words, beats, clapping, songs, and body-movements called “tongues & tala”
Based on the “tala” and “sargam” traditions in North India, or as “konnakol” and “solkattu” traditions in Southern India, Tongues & tala synthesizes the essential elements of both these “vocalese” and “spoken-word” based rhythm and music traditions, in a format more readily accessible and by western musicians.

www.tonguesandtala.com
www.livingworldmusic.com

Singer-songwriter, folk-rock troubadour, and a generally goofy dude. Things are going to get really weird.

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