FEATURED VENDOR
Djembe Drums & Skins
Cape Coral, Florida
If you are are looking for a huge selection of jembe's and
goat skins and other drummers delights, then this is the place for you. Shorty has a large stock of good Afrikan jembes and quality African gost skins.
In addition, he stocks rope, rope grips, varying qualities of drum bags, cow skins, and more.
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More Vendor Reviews
How to Re-Head a Djembe
By: Shorty Palmer
Join Shorty Palmer of Djembe Drum and Skins as he takes you through a step by step demonstration of applying a new goat
skin head onto a rope tuned drum. Shorty certainly knows what he is doing when it comes to skinning an Afrikan Jembe. As
a veteran drummer of 12 years, even I picked up a few tips and tricks.
This DVD is now available!!
Click Here to go to the website and order.
Music, Product, & Site Reviews
Here you will find my thoughts on some of my favorite, and maybe not-so-favorite, pieces of music. When possible, I have provided links to Amazon to purchase the disks if you would like to.
Additionally, I will be posting reviews on different products including instruments and instrument vendors, learning materials, and drumming and dancing accessories.
If you would like to send a review of a c.d., book or website for us to consider posting on our main site, please send an e-mail with your review and any links and relevant information. E-mail us at: reviews at drumlist dot org.
C.D. Reviews
Ruben Blades - Mundo
New, fresh, creative, innovative and, most importantly, musical through and through. Mr. Blades combines Afro-Cuban
sounds with Irish, Scottish, Spanish, and Middle-Eastern, and does so in a very organic way. The different styles are identifiable without
being out of place. He did not, simply, "schmoosh" these musical styles together, he seems to have
identified the components of each musical culture that would be best complimented by his musical background and thoughtfully
composed and arranged them together.
I am absolutely in love with this album.
Track 5, a version of that old Irish favorite, "Danny Boy", is fantastic.
Reviewed by: Christopher Austin
Jonas Hellborg - Good People in Times of Evil
Echoes of Shakti ripple through this album. Bass guitar, 6 string guitar and Indian percussion is the line up.
Most of the music is very "Linear" in that there is not a lot of polyrhythmic stacking of parts as one finds
in Afro-Cuban music. Instead, Jonas takes a more Indian approach to the music using lots of long, tight synchronized
phrases that push you a little off balance, make you smile and drop you back at the "one".
Certaily worth a serious listen.
Reviewed by: Christopher Austin