Heaps Decent: Props and Profound

Heaps Decent are awesome.  Volunteer DJs and such who facilitate music workshops with underprivileged kids, indigenous kids: with production I would love.  Seriously.  Inspiring to hear this shit done well, profound to hear the voices and rhythms and stories from the mall and Mount Druitt and Moree and jail.  Really nodding my head like while driving home.  Impressive, liberating and hopeful.

Go you inspired artists making shit happen.  Go FBi for featuring this.  Go you kids.

Post Keita Workshop

After a workshop with Mamady Keita I am feeling very quiet and just calm with drumming.  Drumming and me.  My life's experience with it so far, the different pulls it has had on me.  I am currently thirty, and currently feeling calm: that I can play, keep playing and developing and learning and listening and expressing.  And also: I don't have to.  For some reason this is very calming and freeing and easier than some of the more ambitious times when I was younger.  Ambition is great and I look forward to more of it: but.  But, for example, I don't want or need to become totally proficient at djembe, so it is kind of freeing to learn something that I don't feel as intensely for.  Drumming, yes, rhythm, yes, celebration and joy and experience, yes.  But I don't have to do this particular style, I don't have to do everything.  I can do some things just on an experiential level, without competitiveness or self-judgement or self consciousness. Hurrah!