Photo: Wild Don Lewis / Painting: Cooper C. Tomlinson
Collage: Devin Sarno
Esteemed drummer/percussionist
Danny Frankel has recorded
and/or performed with artists as diverse as:
Rickie Lee Jones, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, Laurie
Anderson, Victoria Williams, Jewel,
Fiona Apple, Bo Diddley, Flying Karamozov Brothers, Bebel Gilberto, Lucious
Jackson,
Mark Olson, Michael Penn, Don Cherry, Brazaville, Abby Travis,
Kid Congo Powers, Beck, Jim White & more...
Frankel's 2nd
full length CD "The Vibration
of Sound" features:
Pablo
Calogero on flutes & didjeridoo (Tito
Puente, David Byrne)
Doug Wieselman on clarinet (Lounge Lizards)
Woody Jackson on electric sitar, drone
box (Eleni Mandell)
Joseph Hammer on analog tape loops (Solid
Eye)
& 11 zebra finches
What the press has said about Danny Frankel:
"If you're
into honest beats, daddy-o, but opt to cut fat basses and synthy-sugar from
your diet,
you'd probably like to drop by this interstellar cat's pad."
--Flagpole
"[Frankel's
music is an] instrumental panorama that owes as much to improptu garage-think
and
lounge-ing as it does to jazz or new music, per se."
--Santa Barbara Independent
"Danny Frankel is one man who has taken drumming and noise to a completely
new level."
--The Fritz
"Frankel is a discriminating percussionist, tapping out moody melodies
on bongos
and cajoling sound from tambourines, finger cymbals, ashtrays -- whatever's
handy."
--Option
"...ambient, beatnick, psycho-lounge, loopy avant-camp, led by bongo-playing
leader Frankel. This electro-acoustic new music is as entrancingly/maddeningly
diverse as the leader's pedigree."
--CMJ
"[Frankel's music utlizes] some of the most creative uses of common drum
sounds
(bongos, cymbal, tambourine, etc.) as well as whistles, breaths and other
bodily noises.
Simple, and yet riveting."
--Stubble
"I've sunk my teeth into some seriously intense solo drumming projects
lately,
but nothing touches Frankel's lean explorations."
--Cadence
"[This
music] is sort of a lunar expedition co-piloted by Sun Ra and Martin Denny."
--Sample
Contact Danny Frankel:
dannyfrankel@hotmail.com
