Hi All, Any drumcircle updates for my drum circle finder, please let
me know.

Also, there is a free 6 minute mp3 from the 2 CD set you can listen
to from The Ultimate Live Drum Circle. If you like it enough and wish
to buy them and hear it all, the double CD set is $10.
Here is the url to hear it and check it out:

http://www.drumcircles.net/ultimate%20drum%20circle.html

Here's a description:

At long last, after two years in the making, the ultimate drum circle
2 CD set is completed. This is truly the best of the best. Each CD is
filled to the brim, at over 70 minutes long each. There is over two
and a half hours total to listen to in all. All are separate tracks
averaging about 8 minutes each. Plenty of time so you can relax, and
settle into a good groove.

These live recordings vary from grooving, meditative, and passionate,
right on up to riveting, rocking, and exciting. They are some of the
most enjoyable drum circle musical pieces I have ever participated
in, in my life, and I have been attending drum circles for some 20
years now. They are all here in one massive collection. You will hear
some drummers doing call and response, and many other magical things
going on. You can hear and feel how much fun, and excitement everyone
is having. I promise you, you're going to love this drum circle
double CD set. None of it was planned out. It is just the way it
happened, and it all sounds great. You can hear a 6 minute sample by
clicking on the link above. It's compressed to an mp3 (96kbs) so it
will load faster. It's 4MB in size.

There is real variety of drumming on these 2 CD's. And, lot's of
different kinds of drums as well. Probably every kind of drum I think
I've ever seen, talking drums, djembes, doumbeks, ashikos, and taiko
drums just to name a few, and all kinds of smaller percussion items.
Many of the typical things like claves, tambourines, a-gogo & salsa
bells, shakers, rainsticks, pangi nuts, finger cymbals, guiros,
maracas, and wind chimes. Also unusual smaller percussion items, like
a jingle cane, vibra slaps, thunder tubes, vibra tones, flex a tones,
triangles, gongs, frottoirs, finger pianos, washboards, and all kinds
of other crazy things accompanying the hand drumming.

As to the rhythms themselves, there's all different kinds of them.
African, and Afro-Cuban, Latin, Funk, Taiko, Greek, Egyptian, 6/8
shuffles, and many more that were just made up on the spot. There is
lots of variety, and with many different musicians taking the
spotlight and soloing here and there. Some of them are simply
scintillating to witness. If you enjoy hand drumming at drum circles,
I think you will find these most entertaining. It's hard to stop
listening once you pop one of these CD's in. These are the kind of
drum circle jams that make you want to pick up a drum and jam along,
or get on out to a drum circle toot sweet.

On 5 or 6 of the tracks there's wood flutes and didgeridoos in there
with the drumming. The light sounding wood flute adds a hint of
melody floating over the drum beat, and the didgeridoo adds a sort of
a bass to the bottom. It really sounds great. On a couple of tracks
there is an electric flute in there doing some amazing echoing
sounds. There's a few chants, some hoots and hollers, plus a few
jungle calls in there for good measure. People did that because they
were just having a good time, and wanted to express themselves. There
was a number of dancers on each occasion driving the drummersto
heightened levels of excitement, and vice versa.

All these musical pieces were done by myself, and a number of top
notch hand drummers and percussionists using professional recording
equipment. These CD's capture the unplanned spontaneity one
experiences at a drum circle. Many have said, these are indeed the
ultimate drum circle double CD set.
Give the clip a listen, and I think you'll see what I mean.

Thanks,

www.drumcircles.net