Don’t Let Me Fall pt2
Because Its In You pt2
Daru Jones (Daru Myspace, Rusic Myspace)
Spirit Drumz – Chapter 1, 2008
This guy’s online presence is fairly dizzying – you have to hit page-down 14 times on each of his myspace pages before you get to his friends. He also has two blogs and two facebook pages. Ben has been trying to get me to check out his stuff for a while but I was always overwhelmed when visiting his pages. He also seems to put out a free album’s worth of material every free months. Finally ben told me specifically to listen to Spirit Drumz – Chapter 1 and…wow.
I assume the “Spirit” in “Spirit Drums” refers to Gospel (there’s surprsingly little written about the music, considering the web real estate; it says “liner notes forthcoming”), as most of the samples from this album (could be all, minus Spoonie Gee) are from Gospel music. Although the combination is pretty straightforward, I can’t think of another project like it and he does a really job meshing some fairly disparate sounds. When I got to “Because Its In You pt2″ on my first listen through, I was a little put of with the dissonance under such a sunshiney vocal but by the end of the song I was dancing around my apartment.
These are two of the more frenetic songs from the album (although nothing tops “Now Are We pt2″). The chiller songs are great too. This entire album is a free download. If you go to this page, there are three links to download it.
Songs are available for two weeks.
