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| Email: | trash@riseup.net |
| Phone: | 408-218-2782 |
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Idiosyncratic Drummer Wanted
Trash Orchestra is looking for a beginning to intermediate drummer willing to learn and grow with us. Plus points for tenacity, self-motivation, passion, courage, righteous anger about the state of the world, and experience with non-hierarchical projects.
We are an improvisational marching percussion band – a bone-shaking recycled orchestra. We make percussion on tuned cans, hubcaps and barrels, drums, pieces of sheet metal, and homemade oddities. We are amateurs in the best sense -- from the root of the word, amo -- people who make music for the love of it and as a form of resistance.
Influences: Infernal Noise Brigade, Stomp, Tom Waits, Samba, James Brown, punk, drumlines, Rage Against the Machine, Indonesian Gamelan, taiko, hardcore, the military drum bands of our youth, and dozens of other awesome radical marching bands.
Vision: We want to see the Trash Orchestra grow to dozens of regular players. We'd like to see invites from far and wide pouring in to make noise and celebration in places across the globe. We see everyone in the band becoming virtuosos of their own handmade musical creations. We are ambitious in our plans to help liberate the world and make it a better place full of music and dancing and resistance.
We have weekly 2 to 3 hour practices and great gigs coming in. Since this is a labor of love, the orchestra is unpaid, and performance money goes into a communal pot for travel and education.
If you are a drummer with a variety of rhythmic influences and interests and are full of rebellious insolence, we'd like you to play with us. Please tell us what you find interesting about Trash Orchestra, your musical and political influences, and the instruments you play (or wish you could),
Email us or call the number above.