Glen Velez

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Origins 00:00 Tools
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Rise Of The Phoenix 00:00 Tools
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Kinetic Oracle 00:00 Tools
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Lunar Tides 00:00 Tools
Sweet Season 00:00 Tools
Drala (edit) 00:00 Tools
Assyrian Rose 00:00 Tools
Internal Combustion 00:00 Tools
Vox Magica 00:00 Tools
Golden Seal 00:00 Tools
Blue Castle 00:00 Tools
Higher Calling 00:00 Tools
Temple of Moonlight 00:00 Tools
Velez Rubio 00:00 Tools
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Offering to Anubis 00:00 Tools
Farewell Wave 00:00 Tools
A Different World 00:00 Tools
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Drala 00:00 Tools
Doorway to Dionysus 00:00 Tools
In Transit 00:00 Tools
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Secret Messenger 00:00 Tools
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Handance 00:00 Tools
Bridge of Fire 00:00 Tools
Amazonas 00:00 Tools
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Procession for Bes 00:00 Tools
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Silver Lining 00:00 Tools
Emerald Ocean 00:00 Tools
Seven Heaven 00:00 Tools
Wren Chant 00:00 Tools
Inner Smile 00:00 Tools
Snake Eyes 00:00 Tools
Madrepora 00:00 Tools
Gemini Rising 00:00 Tools
Seven Petals 00:00 Tools
Souk 00:00 Tools
Amulet of Bes 00:00 Tools
Urban Medicine 00:00 Tools
Narwhals' Chant 00:00 Tools
Blue Herons 00:00 Tools
White Throated Sparrow 00:00 Tools
Doctrine of Signatures 00:00 Tools
Waking 00:00 Tools
Citric Motion 00:00 Tools
Coba 00:00 Tools
Dawn 00:00 Tools
Prelude to Bliss 00:00 Tools
Fruits of Labor (The Second Chakra) 00:00 Tools
White-Throated Sparrow 00:00 Tools
Mountain Mist 00:00 Tools
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Dionysus 00:00 Tools
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Forest Callings 00:00 Tools
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Osha 00:00 Tools
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Semi Pileated Human 00:00 Tools
Unity (The Seventh Chakra) 00:00 Tools
Third Eye [The Sixth Chakra] 00:00 Tools
Ostia 00:00 Tools
Untitled (Chris Clark Remix) 00:00 Tools
Voices [The Fifth Chakra] 00:00 Tools
Richard Devine 00:00 Tools
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Freeform 00:00 Tools
Chris Clark 00:00 Tools
Leafcutter John 00:00 Tools
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Narwals' Chant 00:00 Tools
Jan Jelinek 00:00 Tools
Errorsmith 00:00 Tools
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Semi-Piliated Human 00:00 Tools
Bendir [Clark Remix] 00:00 Tools
Cortesanos 00:00 Tools
Reich: Drumming - Part II 00:00 Tools
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Nick Forte' 00:00 Tools
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I Forgot the Shirts 00:00 Tools
Bukra 00:00 Tools
Reflections 00:00 Tools
The Fortune Seeker 00:00 Tools
Canto Del Viento 00:00 Tools
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Mirrors (The Third Chakra) 00:00 Tools
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Preludio Y Danza 00:00 Tools
Bodhrán 00:00 Tools
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Third Eye (The Sixth Chakra) 00:00 Tools
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Amulet of Bess 00:00 Tools
Maciendo El Engaño 00:00 Tools
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Tierra Baja 00:00 Tools
The Legacy Jig 00:00 Tools
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Bodhran Meditation 00:00 Tools
Narwhals´Chant 00:00 Tools
Improvisation 00:00 Tools
The Singing Swans: Part II 00:00 Tools
Remember … The Desert 00:00 Tools
Nandi 00:00 Tools
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Untitled (Bradford Reed remix) 00:00 Tools
Combustión Interna 00:00 Tools
Time 00:00 Tools
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Paam Maim 00:00 Tools
Origins Rhythms Of The Chakras 00:00 Tools
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Existence: Life 00:00 Tools
Bodhran (Overtone Chanting and Shamantic Style Drumming) 00:00 Tools
Untitled (Jan Jelinek remix) 00:00 Tools
Dionysys 00:00 Tools
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Suspiro Del Moro 00:00 Tools
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Awakening 00:00 Tools
Luner Tides 00:00 Tools
Reich: Six Pianos 00:00 Tools
Reich: Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ 00:00 Tools
Sun Singer 00:00 Tools
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Glen Velez, Three-time Grammy Award winning master drummer, composer and educator Glen Velez is considered one of the most influential percussionists of our time, as well as being responsible for a world-wide resurgence in the popularity of the frame drum. His teaching and performances inspired the Remo Drum Co. in 1983 to develop a line of frame drums called the Glen Velez Signature Series. The Cooperman Drum Co. introduced a hand made Signature Series Glen Velez Tambourine and Frame Drum line in 1999. In 1989 twentieth century composer, John Cage acknowledged Velez' mastery when he wrote a piece especially for him, entitled "Composed Improvisation for One-sided Drum with or without Jingles." Glen has also gained international recognition as a solo artist and is also known for his 15 year recording and performing collaborations with composer Steve Reich, as well as the Paul Winter Consort. Other collaborations include: Jonas Hellborg, Tan Dun, Israel Philharmonia, Brooklyn Philharmonia, Opera Orchestra of New York, Suzanne Vega, Pat Metheny, Zakir Hussain, New York City Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Orpheus Chamber Ensemble. His own compositions have been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and John Schaefer's New Sounds and have been commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and Reader's Digest. He has written music for theater and dance and recorded hundreds of albums on ECM, CBS, RCA, GRP, Warner Brothers, Deutsche Gramophone, Geffen, Nonesuch, Capital, and Sony. Glen has several instructional videos, 5 instructional books and over a dozen recordings of his own music on CMP, Music of the World, Sounds True, Interworld, Ellipsis Arts and DafTof Records. Glen is a master teacher who conducts workshops worldwide and has published numerous books and articles on the subject. Velez developed his own teaching approach called “The Handance Method.” It incorporates voice and body movement into the process of learning to play the frame drum and has been presented in hundreds of universities worldwide. He currently teaches frame drums at the Mannes School of Music, as well as series of master classes at The Julliard School and Manhattan School of Music. While Glen draws upon the great drumming traditions of the Middle East, South India and the Mediterranean world (ancient and modern), he plays in a style all his own. Utilizing a vast culmination of complex hand and finger techniques, a symphony of sounds and textures remarkably stream forth from just a single hand held drum. Glen's solos seem supernatural, a technical rarity that is beyond comprehension. However, beyond all the jaw-dropping spectacle of Glen's super-human techniques, is a music that is so deeply emotional, a raw beauty, that perhaps, within it's core, resides the most universal rhythm of all - the heart beat. Glen is also an expert in Central Asian Overtone Singing (split-tone/harmonic singing). During concerts, he often gives his audiences a spontaneous crash course in this style, thus resulting into a spirited interactive overtone choir. In the ancient Mediterranean world, frame drumming was an omnipresent tool of ritual. The use of the frame drum, shaker and voice are instruments most commonly used wherever shamanic healing practices are found. These healing and celebratory themes are audible threads that weave all through Glens recordings and live performances. Glen Velez regularly performs and records with: * Trio Globo - featuring Eugene Friesen and Howard Levy * Coleman Barkes, world renown scholar/translator of the poetry of Rumi. * Glen's own: GlenVelez Ensemble * Duo performances with vocalist/rhythm singer Lori Cotler - songs from their new recording are available on iTunes. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.