I dug this. Good players.

Here is another track by the group Rare. I composed this song in a very political mood right after we started the war in Afghanistan. There is probably good reason why politics largely stay out of music (this song being a good example, I'm really not much of a lyric writer). Since there was a vibe solo I thought I would go ahead and post it though. Enjoy!

Rare was a group I was in for approximately a year before it disbanded (I won't go into details, it's water under the bridge). I hadn't listened to these tracks since we recorded them at my house in 2004. We never got to release them because of the break-up. Anyway, I was cleaning up space on one of my hard drives and listened to the tracks. A few of them were fun for me to listen back to so I will share them. I am the recording engineer, producer, and keyboards on this (not too proud of the 1st two titles).

Hey we're screwing around with the shout box. It's been really slowing down the site. so if you don't see it there, that's what's up!

I saw Zakir and Ustad Allah Rakha live and it was so frickin amazing.

Check how they sing the rhythms and then play them back on the tablas.

It's cool cause it's father and son playing! And they're both such monsters.

Susan Pascal is a subscriber on the site. I don't know much about her so I was crusing Youtube looking for stuff. I found this video of her. She takes a great solo over a Latin tune.

hey guys hope you enjoy!

(Not Randy Sutin) Username is just Randy.

Who?

Do women play this instrument with more natural emotion then men?

This girl seems pretty young and pretty expressive in the piece. Seems like an intermediate student, but I saw something in the piece and then thought about other female players and wondered if it's easier for them to be expressive on an instrument that's naturally not that expressive.

Tell me I'm nuts, but I'm just thinking out loud. I always thought women should run the world. They didn't grow playing war, they'd probably find some other solutions to things that guys would never think of.