Deantoni Parks Technoself

The relationship between music and technology is always evolving ... but true music can not exist without a soul. Some extraordinary musicians augment their natural talents with technology, adopting its benefits to fuel their own singular vision, and that is the basis of Deantoni Parks' debut album Technoself.

Parks is one of the finest drummers working today, displaying a sleek and intuitive balance between raw rhythmic physicality and machine-like precision. He can play on one hand what many great drummers could not achieve with two – which he does frequently. His skills have seen him perform with artists such as John Cale, Sade, The Mars Volta, Flying Lotus and his own boundary-pushing group KUDU, among others. Notable collaborations aside, Parks is an artist in his own right, constantly in motion and expanding towards something new.

Deantoni Parks was a drumming prodigy as a child and has gone on to play with heroes as varied as John Cale, Flying Lotus, Sade and Run The Jewels, as well as a longterm gig with The Mars Volta, which was no walk in the park, we’d guess.

With Parks working solo and with just a single drum stick and a sampler to create a raw, staggeringly nimble album with no overdubs or loops.Deantoni's unmistakable sense of movement. In this case, the most important piece of technology turns out to be the human body.

1. Black Axioms
2. Our Shadows
3. Down
4. Graphite
5. Ashes
6. Methodist
7. Automatic
8. Pebble
9. Fosse in the Grass
10. Bombay
11. Orbis Magnus