As you may know, Man Recordings music is a lot about drums. We love em big, we love em thundering, and we love em played versatile. If a track´s beat ain´t dope enough, it´ll not be released on Man Rec. Period. On top of that, we love great percussions. Coz mostly it´s not the big bassdrum or the hard hitting snare, it´s the percussions that make a good track groove better – err just think about “Kid Conga”, ever noticed it has no snare drum but some tablas that make no snare necessary??

As we thought that there´s been tons of coverages about great drummers, drumbreaks etc., little has been made about percussions. So we now proudly present a new Man Rec blog series : The Man Rec Percussion Masters.

First off we´d like to present Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, an Iranian born percussionist, who brings the most amazing sounds out of traditional Persian percussion pieces such as the Tombak or the Daf. When I first heard his stuff, I thought he must add a lot of efxing on top of his spiel – until I saw the man performane live.

See Mohammad Reza Mortazavi perform here at Berlin´s Passionskirche in December 2008:

If you´re in Berlin this Thursday (11th of March), check Mortazavi out at the Berliner Philarmonie – this should be an orgasmic sound and groove experience!!

Tags: Drumming, Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Percussions

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