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Well hello there. I'll be using this space to leave out samples of my "work", mostly to show to and hopefully captivate other musicians to join me. I want to urgently start working on this and I'm convinced I need couple of people to work with.

I'm a 35 year old guitar player, and have been playing since I was 12. I play bass as well and I can play passable, for the moment, keys as well as drums and percussion.

During these twenty years I managed to accumulate more than 700 guitar sketches that range from stuff I believe to have real potential to just noisy experimental trance induced weirdness and stuff that probably that might not go anywhere in any way shape or form. I have from corny jazzy ditties to harsh and heavy-metal-is-for-kiddies angry stuff. Lot's of weird and / or slightly melancholic stuff. 

Keep in mind that what I have here to show for does not represent my vision or capabilities and the sketches need to be evaluated by its potential. These could be a 10 second riffs that just sounded cool at the time, to derivation of ideas with all its cul de sacs and obvious failures that could go on for 10 minutes or more. There's a lot of sloppy playing with little to no respect to rhythm and some instinctual composing and improvisation. Sometimes I also made a conscious effort to allow my future self, who hasn't (so far) had the time to listen to them once, to understand the chord or riff I just came up with. These are supposed to be notes and sketches for myself, so again, try to regard them as such.

For the record, I don't have a definite genre or vision in mind for a future project. You can consult this link here - www.last.fm/user/dfsalmeida/library and check out what I currently or usually listen to. I like variety and I don't want to focus on a single style. If its good, I don't care if we go from punk to jazz to pop to noise. Maybe all of them in one song. I do know I would like to have a pretty expansive sound and add some horns here and some strings there. A piano or synth or just odd, out of place instruments.

Regarding whom I might be looking for, I guess the priority would be a capable and versatile drummer, someone who can rhythmically make a cool song grow to a great one, who can challenge me into new or less obvious ways of structuring and composing, uses odd time signatures that look like differential equations, maybe even polyrhythms. A dynamic range mage that can be a subtle and soft genius to a monstrous brain mashing mayhem beast. Oh and it would be great if you could play around with other percussion toys. As references I have Jon Theodore right up there, and for more straight rock minded stuff I love the style of John Stainer and Therapy?'s old drummer Fyfe Ewing.

Also, a composing partner, who doesn't necessarily have to be a musical soulmate, but someone we can mutually appreciate the good stuff any of us might have, and complement, elevate, add, subtract, contrast and have good fights about how awesome or crap what we are doing really is. Someone that would stop me when going around in my own musical spiral, if not circle. This person could be a bass or guitar player, a keyboardist. Preferably a multi instrumentalist and / or someone who could sing.

Despite my unrealistic requirements and somewhat megalomaniac musical scope, all I want is to work some of these tracks (and whatever you bring to the table as well) into something tangible and with its potential as fully realized as possible. Put out an album, or a series of downloadable free EPs, but mostly doing it for ourselves. After that, if we and/or more people are happy with the result, maybe we can try to go a bit further.

Thanks for you time, happy listening, and cheers for now.

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