INDUBIOUS - BELEAF
This album made it’s way to #1 on the Reggae Billboard Charts just a few days into its release in 2019. This was the second album I played drums on for Indubious in the four years I toured with them. I tracked drums (drum set recording engineer and drummer) on the following tracks:
-Here We Come
-Fabric of Creation
-Do the Best You Can
-Years
-Here We Go
-Shuffle the Deck
-Hocus Focus (my personal favorite drumming on the album)
-Here We Are
INDUBIOUS - FROM ZERO
This album made it to #6 on the Reggae Billboard Charts on July 14th, 2017! So fortunate was I to be a part of this spiritually guided project! I recorded and performed drum set on the following tracks in my home studio in Portland, OR:
-Rocketship (My personal favorite drumming on the album)
-Free Up
-Perfect
-School Again
TO BE AN ELEPHANT - SVA
I was flown down to Silver Gun Records in Los Angeles, CA by Sergio Villalba for this session in late August of 2017. This was an inspiring session all around. Sergio’s compositional layering was mature, and very groove-based. The recording techniques employed by Alexis Rodriguez were nothing short of inventive. On several of the tracks he safely submerged an SM57 microphone into water about 15 feet away from the kick drum. While not a primary microphone, when mixed into the kick and toms, it added a richness we couldn’t omit. Listen to this sample of the single, and click the To Be an Elephant link to sample the album!
COREY FOSTER COLLECTIVE - TAKING ROOT
My first album as a leader...quite a big bite this was! I wrote some challenging music, which the band worked up in three rehearsals. The other members besides myself - guitarist Daniel Lee and bassist Alex Koehler - made this album a true pleasure to record. Alexis Rodriguez, my good friend and a very gifted recording engineer, drove up to Portland from Los Angeles with his gear and engineered this album in my family's home. The music was based on my emotional connections to the places I have been, and especially to the beautiful landscapes that I have found. The shifting tonality of "Wildwood" is meant to resemble the ever-changing Wildwood trail in Portland's Forest Park. The driving, edgy groove of Blue Hills, accompanied by its floating melodic and harmonic rhythm, is my interpretation of the Skyline Trail of The Blue Hills Reservation just outside Boston, MA - a trail I used to run while in college to clear my mind.
The Symptoms album - Lens - was an incredibly well rounded experience. I had just graduated from Berklee College of Music, and was running through the snow all winter to each rehearsal in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These guys - Ben, James, and Drew - have some of the most profound intellect I have ever experienced. This album seems to capture some of the hope and glimpse of brightness within the struggle that we all experience in life. Although lyrically dark at times, this album provides a fair bit of truth and optimism. I performed all of the drum set parts and percussion on this album - from the many cymbal swells to the bouncy balls and scrapping of the piano in the intro of "In White." This project was one that inspired me to simplify, and put my energy into creativity and tone instead of note density and other less worthy pursuits.
My first project and collaboration with producer Angel Alexis Rodriguez of Mexico City, Mexico. Man, what an artist! Always a clear vision of what he wants and what the music needs. He has since founded Silver Gun Records - at which I have had the pleasure of recording for him and Sergio Galindo Villalba(his new album is coming soon!). These two tracks are part of a collection of songs released together in 2015.