A friend of mine is a sick musician and lives with a bunch of other equally sick musicians, including amir ziv the drummer for cyro baptista, marc ribot, tim lefebvre, ect. I went to a very special top-secret concert, which was invite only and i had to go through the rsvp thing. it was in a really cool loft apartment they are calling "the droid factory" or "droid estate," probably because the band that plays there is called droid. the loft is one of these cool new york city party houses, but in manhatten instead of park slope, which is what i'm used to and with some really sick drummers and musicians. having seen antibalas afrobeat orchestra a number of times, this was pretty exciting to see the horn player from the band (Jordan McLean) play i was definitely down. i didn't bring my camera because i wanted to stay lowkey but check the myspace for pictures and sounds.
the lineup in the band is amir, jordan and nick from the antibalas afrobeat orchestra
some info on Droid...
In 2000 the band was signed to Shadow Records and released "NYC D 'n' B" as well as various tracks on Shadow compilations "Hard Sessions" 1 & 2. NYC's DJ Spooky and Detroit producer Carl Craig also used Droid material for their own remixes. The musicians that make-up DROID combine experimentation, musicianship and an attitude for current beat culture. Jordan McLean (member of Antibalas & leader of Fire Of Space) plays trumpet, Amir ziV (long-time member of Cyro Baptista's Beat The Donkey & leader of KOTKOT w/Marc Ribot, Cyro Baptista & Shahzad Ismaily) plays drums, Adam Holzman (long-time keyboardist and musical director of Miles Davis!!! & leader of Brave New World) plays synthesizers & Fender Rhodes. As for the LOW-END.... BASS that is - it's basically a rotating "electric" chair which so far has been bravely filled by: Tim LeFebvre, Jonathan Maron, Shahzad Ismaily, Stu Brooks, Luke O'Malley, Nick Movshon & Yossi Fine. Droid has been very active durind 2007/2008 playing live and recording/archiving their current sound. Recently, the band started collaborating with projection artist extraordinaire Chris Jordan.
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