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Canton drum circle draws inspiration from California experience
CANTON — Big Creek Music looks like any other storefront shop from the outside. But on the inside, it sounds like nothing the city has ever heard before.
From a smattering of disconnected thumps and thuds, a coherent beat begins to emerge from six people sitting in a circle. A driving, tribal rhythm starts to reverberate off the walls, adorned with vinyl records from the Beatles, Bob Seger, Bob Dylan and other influential musicians.
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Keeping African Beats Alive in Bushwick
"When most people talk about drumming, they talk about African drumming, meaning West African," says Owusu Slater. "But I wouldn’t say that. I would encourage listeners to explore rhythms from the Caribbean, Brazil, and the smaller, Eastern Caribbean islands."
Although Slater plays a number of different hand drums, he specializes in the djembe and has done so for the past 20 years. Most djembe players focus on West African rhythms, but he hails from St. Vincent and The Grenadines and tries to maintain that Caribbean viewpoint in his sound. His pieces usually are grounded in Calypso, Reggae, Shango, and Latin genres.
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They’ve got rhythm, they’ve got music
The final bell rang, dismissing all the students for the day at Samantha Smith Elementary. But after music teacher Adam Gross’s classroom cleared out, another set of students meandered in.
The room bustled with energetic youth, who were awaiting instruction.
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