It is not the body which has strength to stand; the strength of standing belongs to the soul. It is therefore that man, in whom the soul manifests in the most pronounced form, stands upright; all other animals bow or bend in their natural form.

Strength0fDance

A person may have patience for forty years, and then lose patience, and so lose the result of all his endeavors during so many years.

LoosePatience

One is led to suppose and believe that virtue is the only thing that matters in life, but it will be found that the greater number of sufferers from moral hallucination are to be met with among the self-righteous.

MoralHallucinations Feat Nick 'Rip' Jackson

TheLift

Elephant Dance

Just a quick sample...working on this one as we breath.

I wonder...

Bass-Bear
Drums-Cat
Percussion-Field Mouse
Rhythm Guitar-Eric Smackdab
Flute-Bird
String Section-Sea Otters
Guitar-James P.F.


They Want It When You Want It

Why Does It Feel That Way?

Hungrier (Andrew Smackdabb)

RAMP

E. Mohammad Meftah is an independent musician/composer/drummer/percussionist/and music therapist based in Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois. For the past decade, he has worked as a sideman and leader for countless musical projects all over the world.

E. Mohammad Meftah has also worked and toured under various musicians and composers such as La-Nai Gabriel (Madame Gandhi), and Mai Khoi (Vietnamese composer/human rights activist), as well as playing drums/percussion on multiple albums of Chicago based musicians.  In addition, he has played countless solo shows, toured, or collaborated in Asia and the United States of America.

He was a collaborator in The Melting Pot, an Art, Dance and Music Festival held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam AND was a collaborator of Standpoint Theories - an international multidisciplinary collective. Eric was also involved as a musician in a TED Talks key note speech in 2016 which was focused on the topic of The Importance of Collaboration in the Arts. He has resided overseas for 8 years in Southeast Asia and has been in the USA, between Chicago and Detroit, for the past 3 years, working on multiple collaborations trying to highlight the arts in a country where the arts are not appreciated/funded in a proper manner by the country's government.

e.mohammadmeftah