A week and a half ago I played in the end of semester percussion concert with the World Beat Ensemble. It was a lot of fun - getting more comfortable playing in front of people. Even soloing isn't too scary anymore. Been feeling quite musically inspired lately, just wish I had more time and opportunities to play.
The concert was recorded and posted online. If you're curious to hear what sort of music I'm playing, go to http://library.music.uaf.edu/ and search for world beat. In this concert we played Agbeko and Kpanlogo, both from West Africa. I especially like Kpanlogo - its really catchy. That crazy cool instrument that you hear is called the gyil. I'm trying to figure out how to get one sent to me from Ghana (and to convince Inari that we have room for one). There are some recordings of pieces from previous concerts as well: I played Bin Tin, Ijexa, Fanga, and maybe Timini. Can't remember very well these days.
The musical choices aren't always my favorite, but its fun to play anyway. I usually prefer something more Latin - rumba, samba, bossanova.
5 weeks ago
