‘Self conscious... uncertain T'm showered with the dust The spirit enters intome And L.Submit...To trust Gmash the radio Nooutside voices here Smash the watch cannot tear the dav toshreds Smash the camera. Cannot steal away the spirits zling range of mu The rhythm is around me The rhythm hascontrol The rhythm is inside me The rhythm hasmy soul! Peter Gabriel of 86 so far has got to By far the best entertainment event ital be Drumbeat soun festival of drums and music hottest percus- place in Marc at 3-day with Vancouver's sionists which took the Cultch. Hey don’t get me wrong there have ben alot of great gigs, both local and imported in the past 4 months. Where Drumheat differs, and hence excells from the all to often purely commercial motives of a live perform- ance, lies in the ‘‘raison-d’etre’’ of the event itself. It was 42 truly inspiring introduction to and explora- tion of traditional drumming, 2” new percussions. director Sal Ferreras. teaches a couple Douglas College as The theme of the well as U capabilities of state-o tronic percussion instruments, mons Drum Pads, Drumulators, Samplers, etc. both man and machine together. Guided by a daz- sicians, instruments and drum styles conducted by artistic Sal_incidently of classes here at Vic. first night, Wired was to demonstrate the remarkable f-the-art elec- Sim- Dig- Rhythms and ds filled the Cultch created by e Rhythm of DrumHeat interacting Drum Roots, the second concert, featured the musical roots of Africa, Japan an with palachian) clog Sermat, playing the d Latin America. some North American followed by bushman’s bow and the Mbira (and wow was There were a number of jams of some Salsa’’ songs by Willie Colon, Ruben Blades and Ray Barretto. These included Albert St. albert ( Latin percs), Sal (Afro and Latin percs), Kathy Kidd (Keyboards), Dennis Nichols (Bass), and anyone else who showed up, picked up 4 shaker or cowbell and joined in (musicians only). There was also a fantastic set by the Humdrums, 4 sub-group © Vancouver’ S Katari-Taiko, the talking drums of Japan. Their improvisations and experimentations with rhythmic themes and unusual drum configura- tions were truly moving. The final concert of the festival, “Steamy ; Music Reviews BEVERLY SISTERS REVIEW It was the evening before th eek 100th Birthday. Parking a. astown was free and The heweviy tee playing at the Savoy — vis are six guys who, as a re aes, te Obs f mester. i is = boppy and bie "They = in a crowd who scone = a _ with their music resulting in a yer yper atmosphere (I’ve. never so many people dancing at the 7! The Beverly Sisters use voc- a gener, bass, synth, and drums . + part is the percussion org yall Adding a Reggae beat to ae ngs, and great Rhythm for : ion of the ‘ole bod. My fa ee were “‘Poets are mad,’’ “‘I ay be ! and the “‘Libodo’’ song fine a t bee the official song titles) cepa Bee, SEA S y fun em out and support local ce | | NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES LONG JOHN BALDRY SATION PNG “ OT ON A; Cxi MAR Ho oP a pera es A Thrill’ ell it certainly was a thrill to sit i oO eas = Pere Ballroom and endl tare John Baldry lay down his jie eae to everyone who was ee ore Baldry stepped out one had a little lunch, ‘‘Electric yee that is. CFOX presented the ye peal on = up everybody. Eres. S e ‘‘Lunch’’ played som -, 60’s and even wae see oe good..variety for those who n to hear some. of everything