I have some friends in Toronto who are serious students of West African Malinke drumming. This is an excerpt of a performance their band - Bolokelen - did in Kensington Market several years ago. I got to be a guest drummer on the Dun Dun (more specifically the Sangban - the colourful drum seen on the right side of this photo, played with a stick). Not my usual drum of choice (that would be Djembe or Congas) and it showed at times!

This photo is from the popular Afrofest show in Toronto, and the dancer is Tapa Diarra, a Malian singer now living in my home town Montreal. The fellow in the orange poncho is my best friend Frank, seen playing Dun Dun here.  :)

Just wanted to put up a few examples of my Latin & African drumming from back in the day since I am a drummer/percussionist first, but I don't have much here on Soundcloud.  apologies for the poor sound quality.

here's s few photos of my ever-growing drum collection:
https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=28551615%40N00&sort=date-taken-desc&text=percussion&view_all=1

Live in Kensington

Bolokelen (live West African drumming performance)

Rust & Bones – Fetchflix TV Series – Miss Scarlett

soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/rust-bones-new-tv-series-1

The voluptuous, sexy and very beautiful Miss Scarlett Page-Turner, commonly called “Miss Scarlett”, is the daughter of Ronny Page, flutist of the not so famous rock group "Led Vanillin", and Hazel Turner, full time pimp in her neighborhood brothel called “The Nuts”. Since Miss Scarlett Page-Turner was working for her mother as a call girl, she was assigned classy customers such as Dick Boneman. It did not take long for Mr. Boneman to understand how the big selling potential of Miss Scarlett would help his business. Mr. Boneman offered her a job in the sales department of Boneman & Sacks Relic Asset Management Inc. and she became sales rep for the North American Catholic market where she was meeting Bishops and Cardinals to sell them holly relics. The secret of her success was obviously the spicy extras she was offering during the sales meeting. Eventually, sales started to go low when Bishops and Cardinals where too busy dealing with sexual abuses scandals from their priests and having to hide them. Miss Scarlett lost her job as a sales rep and started a new career as novel writer. Her first and only novel “The  Bishops Secret Jewels” was a total success. Indeed, this novel was a real page turner. It was based on the unorthodox meetings she had with Bishops and Cardinals, which later were disclosed by journalist on the news. Could being laid-off by Mr. Boneman be a good reason to kill him? Naaaaah, she became his full time sexy mistress and his partner in crime for much worst sins.

“This story is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.” 

Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Miss Scarlett  portrait by Syrel

Musical Note:
The double bass line at the beginning is based on the bass line of the “Lady Marmalade” song written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan in 1974. The “Lady Marmalade” song is well known for its suggestive lyrics that you probably know very well. I was also vaguely inspired by the song “Scarlet” recorded in 1974 by the English rock band the “Rolling Stones” featuring guitarist Jimmy Page of the “Led Zeppelin” rock band.

Rust & Bones

Rust & Bones – Fetchflix TV Series – Miss Scarlett

Flying On The DanceFloor

"Finding Home" is the prelude to "Dreaming of Home" composed in ternary form and so named for its wandering key signature.

Finding Home

Better Tomorrow

New Tracks From The Warden And The Junez

A1 PROJECT

Mice N Men A1 Project

head cold

Shakuhachi flute with reverb on a jazz backing track.

On The Sunny Side Of The Street. Backing track with Shakuhachi.

scrape my teeth

Transa - Prophase (SKYON Hard Edit)

Javi Popper y la Piedra de Cristal

I´m mainly using Hardware Equipment 
(The Electronix) for my Music.

The Electronix are:
Synthesizer + Keyboard + Sampler:
Quasimidi The Raven Max 3x
Quasimidi Sirius
Korg Modwave
Korg Wavestate
Korg Opsix
Korg Poly 800
Roland D-20
Roland D-110
Roland JX-305
Yamaha SY-35
Yamaha CS 1X
Yamaha SU10
Yamaha Tenori One
Behringer Model D
Behringer Pro 1
Behringer Wasp Deluxe
Casio MZ-X 500
Casio XW-P1
Aturia : Keystep Pro 
(Master Keyboard for Behringer Synth.)

Recording & Mixing:
Tascam Model 24
Behringer RX 1202 FX
Behringer Eurorack MX 2004 A
Zoom HD16
Behringer Virtualizer Effects

Mastering:
Steinberg Wavelab

Flying On The DanceFloor

JANO and the Electronix