Nice to hear your drumming again Steve, i thought you might have worn your drums out by now. From dormouse to platypus and on to the future

Aoki Satoru & Seth Andrew Davis - Improvisation for Prepared Bass & Electronics

Recorded from each of our respective locations. Aoki in Tokyo, Japan & myself in KCMO. More to come from this collaboration, this is one track from an upcoming album from Aoki and I on Mother Brain. 

Aoki Satoru - prepared bass
Seth Andrew Davis - laptop/electronics

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Aoki Satoru & Seth Andrew Davis - Improvisation for Prepared Bass & Electronics

Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness (Extended Edit)

Whish

Vocals, piano, and flute by Robyn Bellospirito. 
Art: original oil painting titled "Night Spirit" by Robyn Bellospirito

Dialectic Prayer

Fun little ditty singing in a non-language (any similarity to an actual language is totally unintentional). I dedicate this to my friend I've never met Quynn, gifted healer. 
Robyn Bellospirito: Vocals, djembe, flute, tongue drum, cover art
Steve Mauro: Box drum
Hotep Mambo:
Hotep:
"An Egyptian word that roughly translates as "to be satisfied, at peace". The word also refers to an "offering" ritually presented to a deity or a dead person, hence "be pleased, be gracious, be at peace".
Mambo:
"The word was used to mean “shake it” or “a conversation with the Gods.” (according to Google)

www.robynbellospirito.com

Hotep Mambo

A song with waves from the sea. Percussion is banging a broom while stomping with heavy shoes. Vocals and all sound including recorder flute by me, as well as original art for the song. Any resemblance to a real language is completely unintentional. 
www.robynbellospirito.com

Day Laah Sea Song

We Cry For You

First gig with a brand new project w
JC Aman- Guitar and Efx
Dennis"Bulldozer"Caserta-Bass
Steve Mauro-drums
Live free improvisation @ Caffeine Underground 447 Central ave, Bushwick, Brooklyn NY 8-13-2023

JC & the Kryptonite Brothers Live at Caffeine Underground

Platypus East is a collective of free thinkers sharing their musical joy, creating beauty with a deep love of splashing musical paint.
We bring all things to bear in our creativity-we fight conformity.
Big Thank you to John "DJ Magic Clowns" Maiorino for sharing his musical vision with us,and all the time inspiring, encouraging and giving his blessings to our sonic exploration's to all planets.
We never hold back and continue to search for uncharted
musical worlds..

Platypus East improvises with the movie
"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" with
Jason De Rienzo~Guitar & EFX
Dennis"The Bulldozer"Caserta~Bass & EFX
Harry"Esquire" Weinberg~Tenor Sax & EFX
Joe Piazza- Keys & EFX
Steve Mauro~drumz

Shoreline Petroleum Studios
Lindenhurst, New York
August 17th 2024
Thank you Jimmy for all your help
and for making us feel welcome.
Peace brother!!!!

Platypus East Improvisation 8-17-2024

The scent of bitter almond forces memory from the darkness

Samples used include these artists and tracks: Firesign Theatre, Pharaoh Sanders , Alice Coltrane & Pharaoh Sanders,  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake (Free Audio Books for Intellectual Exercise), Captain Goodvibes, Cluster, Going Home – Fallen Soldier Tribute by Unidentified Piper, The Lithgow Highland Pipe Band, Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield, Pere Ubu, Stomu Yamash’ta and a few (culled from ancient mixtape cassettes) that I can’t identify… yet.

The rest is original tracks, re-imaginings of some earlier tracks and field recordings made by me.

This is a 320kbps mp3 – a lossless copy (flac) may be obtained by contacting me by personal message.

The scent of bitter almond forces memory from the darkness

Tony Williams ~
 is  and will always be a major source of inspiration.

drove to Connecticut to jam and meet some new Jazz Fusion players and it turned out to be a lot of Fun ! 

Thanks Pat & Pat & the woman on Keys who's name I missed !

Fred  ~ Tony Williams Lifetime (cover)

"It's getting to that spiritual level where the communication is total and you leave the ego behind"  
Achieving improvisational nirvana is reaching that point where you can't do any wrong, when you're improvising, it's where the brain is fully focused on listening/reacting and the body just does what it's supposed to do, and there's no thought and there's no question, and no matter what you do, it's right.

Platypus East Improvisation 8-17-2024

Steve Mauro

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