Many paragraphs will follow this one, so I will briefly sum it up here: I have here the drum multitracks that form the musical and spiritual backbone of “You Will Feel The Wind.” 100% of the moolah from this will go to the drummers and upon purchase you will have total creative use of the 26 minutes of ripping breaks contained herein. Read past this point if you dare:

Shortly before August 3rd, 2021, I became fed up with having creative control and compositional intent. Perhaps touched by the grim and annoying specter of John Cage, or just infatuated again by the spirit of free improvisation, for this new project I decided to take matters out of my own hands.

I called upon two drummers whom I deeply respect. David Ward - AKA Youngsensei - my roommate, collaborator, teacher, guidance counselor - and Louis Jones III, whose duo record “Welcome To Neotroit, Vol. 1” I had recently produced from the comforts of my molding and generally hazardous Ypsilanti basement. My thinking was such: making music is easy with a good drummer - so if I had two monsters behind two kits, it’d be doubly easy. A shoe-in for next year’s Grammy season, to be sure. I set up two drum kits facing each other, mic’d it all up, and posited my brilliant plan: you two would play freely, with a very vague starting point from me, and I would fashion a song of sorts around the entire piece.

1-2-3-GO! - and it was off to the races. I sat entranced by their interaction, the back and forth, the grooves and ebbs and flows that danced between their kits. The dynamic - though, to be fair, always in the “really fucking loud” marking - shifting fluidly together. Wandering between styles, swings, tempos. It rules! There’s a real chemistry and playfulness between the two as they push and try to impress each other throughout the narrative.

They played for 26 or so minutes in total. Now, my original intent as stated was to create a whole arc of a tune that traversed its humongous expanse - and that plan soon failed as I realized that I had no grandiose ambition or bold 26-minute statement to make. Furthermore, 26 minute long songs usually suck and there’s no money to be made, unlike with 8 minute songs (that’s where the real money is).

All that to say there’s a lot of unused footage here. And to be honest, it’s 26 minutes of absolute balls-to-the-wall-nonstop shredding. I really can’t speak highly enough of the playing. And it’s a real shame it all went to such an undeserving peon as myself. And communally-sanctioned artmaking, spawning art from more art, collaborating outside space and time (thanks internet!), is something I don’t see all the time. So I present - for the consumption and free ($6) use to all the good people of the Earth - the multitracks from the session. Use these breaks however you wish. Chop 'em! Screw 'em! Speed 'em up! Slow 'em down! I don’t care! Get whacky with it. Get conservative with it. Do some art with it. Just be sure to send me whatever you make.

I hope these multitracks bring you as much freedom and joy as they have brought me. Please only download as 24-bit 48khz .wav files.

- Geoff