Shelton Healy Duff's House 10-6-2009

Played with Trevor Healy at Tom Duff's house in Berkeley - a nice spot for playing. It was two duos that night, the first being Jacob Zimmerman, an alto player at Mills right now and Mike Carreira, a drummer. Their set was first, Mike played a very stripped down set of small bass drum, snare and small cymbal. Spare sounds - worked well with the composed music that I think was written by Jacob. The music focused on distinct aspects of playing by Jacob - trills, high tones, etc. Mike has definitely explored the smaller sounds of drums -he used tiny scrapes and movements to good effect. A short break and Trevor and I played - the last time was back in early August (on another duo bill with James Fei and Kyle Bruckman) and we fell back into our style - which has developed over time to be a process of building up thick affected drone sounds with interspersed field recordings and ghostly melodies. Meditative. This was a good set and Tom recorded it with a nice pair of overheads. Hopefully that will be unearthed before too long....