Rhythmotomy

The off-the-beaten-path percussion band Rhythmotomy formed in 1993 following its four members met in a drum circle in Thousand Oaks, CA. At that time, drum circles had been a favorite offshoot from the poet Robert Bly’s men’s motion. But the brand-new agey Zeitgeist acquired little influence on Rhythmotomy’s burgeoning sound. Steve Sandstedt, Jim Long, Tom Hollow, and Bob Dreisbach meld atmospherics with globe music elements to reach at something intentionally dimensionless and variably trippy, even more hardcore than what’s allowable by modern precepts. Using from artillery casings to shaman drums to Tibetan performing bowls — whatever you can pound, actually — their objective would be to “bridge the area between dance and dreams,” the associates have said. One of the quartet’s mentors are Fred Albright and Zitro. Within their longer duration being a band, they will have produced only 1 Compact disc, 2002’s well-received self-released Rhythmotomy.