RealTime is a percussion/cornet quartet playing a spirited dynamic chamber music drawing on a wide range of particular individual experiences.
Each participant has spent years studying and playing a number of quite different traditional and contemporary musics.
The players are equally at home playing structured musics and freely improvised musics. But the unity of RealTime is driven by a shared love of groove and melody.
Committed simplicity is the focus of the Real-Time group, and in that sense it is firmly in the tradition of many forms of music playing which deal principally with spirit.
There are three tracks below - including one with newest member Philly FonkMeister Scipio
And here's In The Shaman's Pocket - a download-only album on Ayler records. Get it here - http://www.ayler.com/_catalogue_dl.htm
Ken Hyder (dungur shaman drums and percussion, voice) began his recording career thirty years ago with Talisker, a pioneering band which fused his home-boy traditional Scottish music with avant garde jazz.
Gradually the specific jazz element decreased and his music expanded to take in other Celtic musics, South American and South African forms, and two spirit genres - Tibetan Buddhist, and shamanic musics.
He played drums with the Bardo State Orchestra which recorded and toured Europe with Tibetan monks.
He's also played with and studied shamanic music with shamans in Siberia - principally in Tuva.He has made over two dozen albums with a range of jazz, folk and avant-garde musicians.
"Ken Hyder's drumming always appears connected to the world beyond narrow musical concerns. It comes with a context, picking up on place, the past, people met and local practices. At the same time he favours strong, well-defined musical statements, entirely free from ornamental excess and fuss."
Julian Cowley, The Wire
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Andy Knight (pocket cornet, flutes, melodica) started playing in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England in the 1980s.
Andy moved into improvised music, and experiments fusing free-jazz with rock and punk and funk.He also played saxophones and worked and recorded with Specials punk musician, Jerry Dammers.
Andy also recorded with Scottish singer Pinky McLure - and at the other end of the musical spectrum with another Scottish singer, the international contemporary improvised music pioneer Maggie Nichols.
He has also worked in the theatre and has performed with dance music projects in London and Moscow.
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Z'ev (percussion) is from Los Angeles, where he
built his first drum set at the age of seven and began playing
professionally when he was 12.But swiftly his studies took him further out.
At California Institute of the Arts he studied Ethnomusicology (Ewe
drumming (Ghana), Balinese gamelan & south Indian tala).
Later, he studied Qabalha with Rabbi J. Winston, Western Ceremonial
Traditions with Aeryn Richmond, and Vou Dun Drumming with Haitian Hogun
Rico Joves.
In San Francisco he was one of the founders of the Industrial
Music/Art Movement.His book Rhythmajik was published in 1992 by Temple
Press UK.
He has performed in more than 80 cities across 20 countries and has released over 30 albums.
"Z'EV's music is unique beyond compare and his complete mastery of
texture and sound only adds to the unique character of his drumming."
Lucas Schleicher ..........................................................................................
SCIPIO
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After playing with musicians of Sun Ra and Patti Labelle alumni he joined ex-Osibisa member Lofty Amao and Robert Bailey, forming “Zzebra” which opened and often shared the finales of concerts with Jimmy Cliff, Robin Ford (ex- Joni Mitchell and Miles Davis), Jack Miller’s Reggae Rockers ( which included musicians from Bob Marley and Peter Tosh).
Arriving in France in the
1980s, numerous concerts and tours with various groups led to session work in
Paris with players including Sally Nyolo, NAKA from Guinea Bissau, W.Africa,
Juao Motta and Chihuahua. Later moving to