For this piece, I had a 13" tuned Thai gong (A-flat) in my lap, played as a djembe/hand drum for a great rhythmic sound, bringing out different overtones along the way. A 10" Chinese Opera gong was played with a mallet and flooded with reverb to get the melodic sounds. I also played an LP Americana String-Style Cajon as well as egg shakers, caxixi and metal castanets, and carefully worked with VST Taikos & African Djembes, Djun Djuns, bells and cymbals to create the unique percussive textures in this piece. Thanks to Steve Weiss Music for the use of these two perfectly tuned gongs!  ***This is an updated mix with re-recorded percussion and re-mixed taikos & cajon.***

Gong Piece in A-flat Minor

Selected pieces from The Gathering Mist's second full length album, "Reservoir." Featuring Aaron Swatski on bass, Andrew Pomeroy &amp; Andy Mowatt on guitar, Emily Jones on fujara (bass overtone flute).

Batido de Naranja

Panorama

Selected pieces from The Gathering Mist's second full length album, "Reservoir." Used chromatically tuned flower pots:)

Ceramics

Selected pieces from The Gathering Mist's second full length album, "Reservoir." 

The Surrounding Leaves

mic placement test for a Hang. Read about it here: http://jeffwilletmusic.com/2015/05/06/hang-drum-recording-technique/

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Brand new piece featuring Taiko drums and various small percussion instruments. Still a rough mix, might even include some other instruments at some point...

Taiko1Update8-5

Another brand new piece featuring Taiko Drums and various small percussion instruments. Still a rough mix, and it might even include other instruments at some point...

Taiko2Update8-5

Short film cue - very percussive & rhythmic - strong groove

Percussion_Cue1

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Percussion_Cue2

Here's a rough mix of a track from The Gathering Mist's album "Rhythmic Epiphany." It's definitely an improvement over the first release of it, but still needs a little more mixing before officially releasing it. In the meantime, enjoy! Featuring kalimba, epic Taiko drums, cajon, udu drums, and lots of other fun stuff!

Ephemeris - 2013_roughmix

Here's a brand new fun little track based around an 11/8 phrase, featuring kalimba, drum set, LP Americana String-Style Cajon (with CajonPort!), and lots of other fun stuff! Not sure if this is a final version or not...

Kalimba-Eflat_Perc.2

Short but sweet piece with the intent of being a film cue hopefully, potentially going to be expanded into a full piece. Can't waste a good 9/8 groove!

On The Edge

Here's a short piece I did this morning :)

BerimbauGroove

Jeff Willet is a percussionist and composer living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, originally from Delaware. He specializes in all types of percussion, especially all types of ethnic/world drums, but also plays marimba, vibraphone, and piano.

He studied tabla in college and always is excited to learn something new. Jeff focuses on the combinations of rhythmic and melodic percussion, polyrhythms and other compositional and textural techniques, and loves collaborating with other musicians.

While in college, he completed two full-length solo albums under the name The Gathering Mist, with an impressive list of guest artists and very unique-sounding music.

Jeff's instrumentation: Drum set, cajon, tabla, frame drums, jembe, dumbek, kalimba, HAPI Drums (Emin & Dmin), berimbau, pandeiro, udu, as well as various shakers and effects.

Jeff has been featured on such websites as SickDrummerMagazine.com, KalimbaMagic.com, and DrumChattr.com, and works for the online international percussion retailer SteveWeissMusic.com

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