Drew Kid aka French Toast Jefferson - electric piano/directions in music
Eliot Seppa - bass
Nom - drums

The finale of our set at SAMASAMA x Kam & 46's Filipino American History Month Celebration: "Umpukan" 
Live at Metrobar DC October 16, 2022

Klout Sitty Burd Gyang - Eye 2 Eye (Live @ Metrobar 10-16-22)

shoutout tha gawd Kev Brown, keep inspiring folks outchea man 🤘🏽

Tribute to Kev Brown 92722.wav

Magnus Andretti - SP404 & MPC Live
Drew Kid - electric piano 
Nom - drums

Klout Sitty Burd Gyang - “The 9pm Block“ (Live @ Onle Vibez 3-30-23)

🤘🏽envision your own liberation from da klouuut • free your ass and your mind will follow… • a rescue signal to disrupt your internally scheduled programming 📡☁️✨🕊️✨☁️

escape from klout sitty! (rescue signal) ☁️✨🕊️✨☁️

Drew Kid - electric piano
Magnus Andretti - SP404
Eliot Seppa - bass
Nom - drums

Live at Umpukan: A Filipino-American History Month Celebration by SAMASAMA Art x Kam & 46

Metrobar
October 29, 2023

photography by Kendra Renee

KLOUT SITTY BURD GYANG - Mainstream (Live @ Metrobar 10-29-23)

you can make it if you try

this was written today as a study in Ab, on the app DroneToneTool that uses cello sounds to tune to. in more recent times, i like to test myself by going about my day after figuring an idea out. if i can still remember the idea later on when i get to the piano, or if it still feels good to play said idea, that’s how i know it’s one to hang on to. 

when i tried to translate this one on the Fender Rhodes, it reminded me of something i’ve always admired: wind chimes. we never had them at my home growing up but i would be blessed to hear them in neighbors’ yards, hanging on trees or other fixtures. i think wind chimes are an amazing thing because they just allow nature to interact with them and make music. even more as i write this i’m stuck on the fact that we can literally hear what the air on earth feels like playing …through wind chimes!!!

it’s crazy.

a further inspiration during this time for me has been Esperanza Spalding’s incredibly healing album SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB where the core question attempted to be answered through the project was, “what do you need a song for?” — written during the pandemic lockdown, it was apparent that the so-called ‘intangible’ things, like music, needed a further look: one for us to see that art, spirituality, and the like, are actually extremely, or if you can believe, infinitely tangible. they affect us very deeply so our relationship to them is delicate, sacred, and important. what becomes oppressive, violent noise or soothing, therapeutic vibration is our choice when we engage with it. 

it was from listening to this album and many similar to it, and finishing my own latest work (THE LOOP EVOLVES) that i have (re)discovered better purposes with creating and playing music. there are still harsh sounds that we make. there are still discrepancies within our spirits we wish to resolve. but as Cee-Lo said on the song “Fighting”, we gotta do it together. we have to listen and pay attention to the lesson the wind is teaching us when it plays those chimes. it’s far greater than i can attempt to describe in an essay. but the fact we have ears to hear it, bodies at least to feel that vibration, is a blessing enough.

windchimes of the heart 7.22.24

eeeomotions

Marty figured out a groove in 27/16 (7/16 + 9/16 + 11/16) and I put it to Alena Alegrado's "Find Your Way//Arrow" because I love the chords so much. This is us trying to make sense of it.

Find Your Way//Arrow vamp in 27/16 with Marty Risemberg

Written by Drew Kid for Josefina Cerafica Flores
	Published by Afrocentric Asian Music (BMI)
	Recorded by Dunc at The Dojo, Silver Spring MD
	Piano: Drew Kid
	Bass: John Daise
	Drums: Austin Cody Flores

A Beautiful Discovery 
	Written by ???
	Published by Afrocentric Asian Music (BMI)
	Recorded by Dunc at The Dojo, Silver Spring MD
	Piano: Drew Kid
	Drums: Austin Cody Flores

For You, For Me Too

Motherland

Written by Drew Kid
	Published by Afrocentric Asian Music (BMI)
	Produced by 4-JAX YUNG SWIZZA MANE
	Recorded by Landover Calrissian at IN DA LAB Studios
	Score performed by the Steely Faingaz Symphony Orchestra
Pyrotechnics & Audio-Visual Presentation performed by STANK_LEON
	Bird calls & Wah-wah Pedals: Timoteo the Tenderloin Trappa
	Wind: Oko Yono
	Samples and Drumbreaks you ain’t got: Joey $candalz
364 Barz of Fiyah Flamez: YUNG WHITEWA$HED	
	Adlibs: The Pimp Trick Gangsta Clique feat. Druelz Santana 
	Theremin: Katzumoto Jazayaki and his assistant, Ronnie the chinchilla
Noodling in between tunes: The Keeyatz University Jyeahzz Combo
White Piano on Wheels: Finessa Carlton
Vibe Engineer/Party Catalyst: Romanov Poppinoff
Gentrifiers who called the cops during the making of this recording: Debra, Skyler, Ally, and Chad

*contains elements of “Return of The Mack” written by Mark Morrison...oh wait, nevermind...no...that's a lie

Does Culture Die With Me?

Written by Drew Kid
	Published by Afrocentric Asian Music (BMI)
	Recorded on an iPhone 4 in some classroom
	Piano: Drew Kid

Alone

Written by Alena Alegrado for the PCN production of “Nawawala: Find Your Way”
Published by Blueberries (ASCAP)
Arranged by Drew Kid
	Recorded by Dunc & Colin Delzell at The Dojo, Silver Spring MD
	Trumpet: Andrew Velez
	Tenor Saxophone: Zet Harris
	Piano/Organ/Wurlitzer/Synth Bass: Drew Kid
	Drums: Austin Cody Flores

Find Your Way / Arrow

Big Rube:
We of this realm
Blessed enough to be posted at the helm
Can consciously captain a nation by responsibly navigating our own ship
Safely taking our own trips and understanding the journey
An undemanding existence would weaken me
How bright can a beacon be without darkness to dissipate
Without the experience of trial and error
However could I anticipate the obstacles that lie before me
Unseen to the untrained eyes of a mundane imagination
Unstained with aggravation, pain, and scars
How can I know how far is the reach of my limitations
This cannot come through imitation
Each of us possesses the fire to illuminate the haze
That obscures the paths and trails we blazing
With potential to be amazing
Yet we continue to dwell in a maze of disgrace crippled by ignorance
Consumed by self hatred
Entombed in our own doubt we’ve become just about faithless
Doomed to become faceless unless we open our mind’s eye to who we are
And openly embrace this identification
Hope can replace despair and love obliterate hatred
Dismembering this twisted matrix that encapsulates the ones who made it
Poetically it’s just us
Freedom isn’t where you live but how you live
It just is
Just causes should be stood up for
Injustice never put up with
The phrase ‘good enough’ should have never existed
Cop outs are what let cops out of taking responsibility for abusive position
The truth forever has been and ever shall be the ultimate mission
Make a decision…
Right now

(Chorus) Drew Kid/Deborah Bond:
We of the world 
Got a lot to do
But as strong as we are
We're still vulnerable 
We don't want the slice
Bigger appetites
Gotta follow my hopes towards an antidote given capsulized
We of the world 
On a constant move
We don't complain take the pain no thang
Daily we doing what we gotta do
Learned to love the fight
So we prove with pride 
Should've asked about my past
Backtrackin' still tryna find out who am I

yU & Kev Brown:
This is why my arms stay lifted to the sky
Grateful for genuine things they don’t make no more
On the road to mature, made mistakes galore
Bumpin’ my head Allah was saying, “Be patient, boy”
From scratch again, got nothing to base it off
Creation = doing, ain’t no tracing joy

Good news is something I could use
So much going on what happened to the rules
What happened to the jewels with the truth when you hear the blues
Glass ceiling with the elevator to the roof
I’m not amused, I need a muse
Take my shoes and put ‘em on, see if you can show and prove

Grow is what I’m known to do since I used to go to school
I done wrote a song or two, still feel like it’s more to do

Waiting for the next line, waiting for the next move
Maybe on the flip side, if not this time…

Grap Luva:
In struggles of life and love there’s always change
Some people they play the game and get caught in the flame
The world moves without warning, days dawning bring the sun and the rain
Like life brings the joy and the pain
Beautiful words emerge making powerful thoughts
I take issue with discrepancies that I was taught
I use the 16’s to clear the minds that are cluttered
And hope we discover the beauty in one another
My brothers and sisters, they been calling for change
But the fact it falls upon deaf ears is not strange
The people they send to rep the truth be so lame
While the line blurs between real life and playing games
See life can offer you much or nothing at all
I’m not living my life to ball until I fall
I’m living my life walking in the light of The All
Sh*t’s deep but still we gotta answer the call…

Evolution: Tuari Bilal-Willingham/Adonis Hook/Drew Dave/Charlie Ross

11.13.12. - 8.3.17.

We Of The World (feat. Big Rube, Deborah Bond, yU, Kev Brown, & Grap Luva)

Written by Drew Kid
Published by Afrocentric Asian Music (BMI)
Recorded by Drew Kid at Rum Runner Records, Brentwood MD
Keyboards/Synth Bass/Casio/Crybaby: Drew Kid
Voices: the people of Binangonan, Rizal

Outsider's Guilt (The Now)

Wherever you are
Is where I wanna be
When you come along
Everything
Ain’t as ugly
You and I both
Know how cold the world can be
But it’s always warm whenever I’m where you are

Trying to act like I ain’t got no sign of time
Or that it ain’t far away from me to get wherever you want
If halfway you can meet me, that’s a sign
You’re worth the journey to me

Wherever you are
Is where I wanna be
When you come along
Everything
Ain’t as ugly
You and I both
Know how cold the world can be
But it’s always warm whenever I’m where you are

Who must I be that, darling, you’d make the time?
You wouldn’t flake or fake any given day the minute I call?
Should I put my trust in thee, or hold the line?
You’re all that I wanna see

2.4.15. - 7.23.17.

Written by Drew Kid & Graham Doby 
	Published by Afrocentric Asian Music (BMI)/Graham Doby (ASCAP)
	Recorded by Dunc at Rum Runner Records, Brentwood MD
	Supporting Vocals: Deborah Bond
	Trumpet: Andrew Velez
	Tenor Saxophone: Zet Harris
	Vocal/EP/Hohner D6 Clavinet/Synth Bass: Drew Kid
	Bass: John Daise
	Drums: Graham Doby
	Drum Programming: Slimkat78, Kev Brown, Austin Cody Flores & Drew Kid
	Party People: Jedi JD, Cheakaity, Rachel, Dunc, 4-JAX
*contains resung lyrics from “Nobody But You” written by P. Coleman, T. Jones, P. Douthit, K. Hinnant

Wherever You Are (feat. Deborah Bond)

Filipino-American piano player/composer/arranger/producer from Silver Spring, MD.

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