Currently I am pursuing a career as a professional recording artist and have begun several projects highlighting both the didjeridu and my own original spoken word poetry. Over the last year (2007) I have been gathering with other musicians in the band "Pele's Tears", a Gypsy-World-Groove project who have perform in the SF Bay Area. We came together when Kashia asked me to play with himself, Estas Tonne - a remarkable flamenco guitarist and Papillon - a breath-taking Ritual Belly Dancer (www.tribalecho.com) at an Anon Salon Evening. We create music that celebrates the wild and beautiful elements of the soul. Our mission is to bring a sense of empowerment into our lives and the lives of our listeners through a fusion of the ancient traditions of various musical and dance styles via a contemporized expression of ritual theatre and sound. For nine years I played didjeridu with Devotional-World-Fusion group "Axis Mundi" and moved on from that last New Years, grateful for many years of performance with them and the way in which that group helped me to stay in touch with what's important to me in my life. "Lanterns of Midnight" is my first solo release which touches into several genres of music, including Lyrical, World, Trip-Hop, Ambient and Chillout. I have used these favorite styles as vehicles for a canvas upon which to place a musical painting of the landscape of the Soul, giving voice to a spiri of Longing amidst the drones and growls of the didjeridu, the wind-swept airs of the Native American flute and the pulse of various tribal percussion instruments in addition to drawing upon the melodic sway of guitar and bass. "Outlaw Dervish" is my new studio release with Ben Leinbach and will form the foundation of a new side project that will incorporate members of "Pele's Tears" and possibly others. We are excited to bring a flavor of Trip-Hop and Down-Tempo into our forte and this record expresses a more electronic, albeit organic, flavor as well as offering more straight-up Grooves and Instrumentals. People are saying that the new CD is more humorous and universal in tone and there is definitely a sense of humor which contrasts a bit with "Lanterns". I feel that the new project is more mature musically and speaks to a broader sense of listening and experience.