MP3 Cameron Tummel - Waterfire

Instrumental world percussion to transport your imagination.

11 MP3 Songs in this album (34:41) !
Related styles: WORLD: World Beat, WORLD: Drumming

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Waterfire
Instrumental world percussion to transport your imagination.

From powerful West African djembe and dunun drums to the gentle tones of the Swiss Hang, playful body percussion to heartfelt drum prayers, shekeres to rainsticks to Nepalese singing bowls; Waterfire is a celebration of rhythms and sounds from around the world.

Waterfire contains ten tracks of all-original world percussion.
The bonus track, Love, is a spoken word poem.


Cameron Tummel is a globally renowned composer, recording artist, and team building specialist. He is based in Santa Barbara, California, and facilitates interactive rhythm events full-time. Bio and other information online at: www.CameronTummel.com



CT: Iâve been studying and playing for twenty years, and this CD is a compilation of all my favorite instruments and styles. I spent more than two years working on it, and am inexpressibly pleased with the final product. Kudos, love and respect to my recording engineer and co-producer, Robinson Eikenberry, and to Eric Conn at Independent Mastering. Thanks to them, the sound quality is astounding. The better your sound system, the more youâll enjoy it.

Some of the arrangements began with concepts, and I had a specific goal when I began working on them. Other pieces developed in completely organic and unexpected ways, as each recording session opened up new ideas and possibilities.

It all began with the opening track, Droplets, which is a playful little tune built around the gentle metallic tones of the Hang. I added rhythms on shakers, blocks, talking drums and a cowskin djembe, but kept the Hang the primary instrument.

Droplets led me into the deeper and more complex soundscapes: Rivers, Cyclone and Inferno. I spent incredible quantities of time developing their textures and moods, and enjoyed the process every bit as much as the results.

The drum prayer tracks, Dawnprayer, Noonprayer and Nightprayer, are one hundred percent unadulterated improvisations. During the long days of oh-so-precise recording sessions, sometimes I needed to just cut loose for a few minutes, which I did. We recorded all those free-form, pure-improv, straight-from-the-heart, little jams, and after collecting two yearsâ worth, I chose my three favorites for the final recording.

I originally intended the whole CD to be instrumental arrangements, but Love had its own agenda. (I should have knownâ¦) Love is a spoken word piece I wrote as a cribside prayer for the child I do not have yet. It began as a reaction to the type of overly aggressive and negative lyrics I so often hear on popular radio; I decided to write a piece that would be simply a list of forms of divinity. Speaking the words into the mic, I imagined I was whispering a âgood nightâ meditation into the ears of a baby. I didnât plan all the interaction of the multiple vocal tracks, it just âhappened.â I spoke the words three times, and we just pasted them the way they came out. What you hear is extremely close to the original, ârandomâ placements.

The completion of this CD was cosmically unbelievable. I had finished nine of the tracks by mid-November of 2008, and the two unfinished tracks were the title track, Waterfire, and track number eight, Inferno. Then on November 13, â08, my entire neighborhood burned to the ground in the worst firestorm in California history. (Search âTea Fire.â) It took months for me to emotionally recover from losing every material object I owned, but when I was finally able to resume work on Inferno, my experience gave me the motivation to take that arrangement farther than any other. It isnât a happy, playful little bouncy tune â it is the monster I watched consume my house, and everything else in sight.

I lost more than a thousand instruments in the fire, including dozens of the ones I had recorded for this CD. To complete the title track, Waterfire, my engineer and I actually imported sounds we had recorded previously, so some of the notes you hear are like ghosts or angels, singing to us from the past to the present to the future.




Thank you for your time.
I hope you enjoy the music.
C