“Drunk Dionysus” is the Voodoo Drummer’s new composition.
Inspired by his ancestors, he has created an Afro-Dionysian experimental piece where weird Cello voices dance on top of a unique combination of odd rhythms, followed by a swinging version of a 9/8 Greek dance. Therein enters the Balafon master Mamadou Diabate from Burkina Faso (West Africa).
In this track, the God of wine, theatre, fertility, ritual insanity, the notorious libertine himself Dionysus, is just drunk as usual!
(The truth is that after listening one cannot help but ask: Who is drunk, Dionysus or the Voodoo Drummer?!!)
Voodoo Drummer: Drums & Percussion
Stavros Parginos: Cello
featuring Mamadou Diabate: Balafon
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Voodoo Drummer’s BIO
For more than 30 years he has appeared at festivals, theaters and venues in 24 countries so far, such as Rouge Cabaret Festival (Paris), Villa Celimontana Jazz Fest (Rome), Herodion Theatre (Athens), Secret Garden Fest (U.K.) & Doha Jazz Festival (Qatar).
He performs with the cult British musical trio THE TIGER LILLIES and he had cooperated with significant artists like New Orleans singer MESCHYIA LAKE, Chicago Bluesman MICHAEL DOTSON and Greek singer-songwriter DIONYSIS SAVVOPOULOS. He has also recorded with members of Tuxedomoon (U.S.), Nouvelle Vague (FR) & Ojos de Brujo (SP).
Inventor of the Dionysian Cabaret (Opera Chaotique), he also co-founded the Drumbone (Experimental duet) & Deja Voodoo (New Orleans Music).
His composition based on quote by CHARLES BUKOWSKI has been recorded with American Blues legend LOUISIANA RED. Also a painter and a lyricist. His adaptation of ARISTOPHANES play “The Frogs” premiered in the National Opera of Greece.
“Amazing addition of tribal rhythms”
Daniel Olvera – Gothic-Rock.com FINLAND
“plays with a musical ear that combines the gawky gait of Joey Baron with the eccentric voicings of Bill Bruford Not a bad combination at all!”
DRUM! Magazine U.S.A.
