Summerfold Records announces the release of One by Pete Lockett's Network of Sparks featuring Bill Bruford with a free download on All About Jazz. The track “Prism" is available here.
Pete Lockett is one of the world's leading multi-percussionists. An authority on Indian percussion and an expert on tablas, kanjira, and bongos, he has played and recorded with countless artists including Bjrk, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, Jeff Beck, David Torn, Vikku Vinayakram, Selva Ganesh, Ustad Zakir Hussain, The Verve, Steve Smith, Nitin Sawhney, Afro Celt Sound System, the BBC Concert Orchestra, and David Arnold for the James Bond movies. He is one of the few UK musicians to be honored with invitations to play in India in the highest circles of Indian classical musicians.
Back in 1999 and before he was well-known, Lockett toured with Bruford as 'Network of Sparks' and they produced an inventive, culture-busting album called One. The group was a percussion quintet covering many of the disciplines from around the world, in which the Ghanaian and North Indian Dhol traditions rubbed shoulders with progressive jazz and electronics. The music on One is an authoritative guide to the glorious colors available from more sophisticated rhythmic cultures than our own western one, and several of its ideas were carried on into the recent 'World Drummers Ensemble' Summerfold dual-disc with percussionists Bruford, Chad Wackerman, Luis Conte, and Doudou N'Diaye Rose.
Our jaded Western drumset rhythms would probably have fossilized some years back if it hadn't been for the healthy infusion of the rhythms and colors of India, Cuba, Latin- America, and Africa, and it seems that visiting with and borrowing from these and other cultures, while approaching their rhythmic depth with proper respect, is what is going to continue to give our popular music vibrancy. Lockett's Network of Sparks is expertly placed to guide us through the riches of other nations' rhythmic heritages.
Pete Lockett is one of the world's leading multi-percussionists. An authority on Indian percussion and an expert on tablas, kanjira, and bongos, he has played and recorded with countless artists including Bjrk, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, Jeff Beck, David Torn, Vikku Vinayakram, Selva Ganesh, Ustad Zakir Hussain, The Verve, Steve Smith, Nitin Sawhney, Afro Celt Sound System, the BBC Concert Orchestra, and David Arnold for the James Bond movies. He is one of the few UK musicians to be honored with invitations to play in India in the highest circles of Indian classical musicians.
Back in 1999 and before he was well-known, Lockett toured with Bruford as 'Network of Sparks' and they produced an inventive, culture-busting album called One. The group was a percussion quintet covering many of the disciplines from around the world, in which the Ghanaian and North Indian Dhol traditions rubbed shoulders with progressive jazz and electronics. The music on One is an authoritative guide to the glorious colors available from more sophisticated rhythmic cultures than our own western one, and several of its ideas were carried on into the recent 'World Drummers Ensemble' Summerfold dual-disc with percussionists Bruford, Chad Wackerman, Luis Conte, and Doudou N'Diaye Rose.
Our jaded Western drumset rhythms would probably have fossilized some years back if it hadn't been for the healthy infusion of the rhythms and colors of India, Cuba, Latin- America, and Africa, and it seems that visiting with and borrowing from these and other cultures, while approaching their rhythmic depth with proper respect, is what is going to continue to give our popular music vibrancy. Lockett's Network of Sparks is expertly placed to guide us through the riches of other nations' rhythmic heritages.
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