The Roulette Tapes Podcast : Tomas Fujiwara

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The Roulette Tapes is a monthly podcast combining artist interviews and concert excerpts that offers a window into experimental music performed and recorded at Roulette. Produced by Roulette co-founder and archivist David Weinstein and radio veteran Susan James, the collection is a 2021 Webby Honoree in Music. Listen here on YouTube, or on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and elsewhere. New episodes are released on the first of each month.

Episode 20 - Tomas Fujiwara : A Drummer’s Tale (5/1/2021)

The drummer discusses origins, influences, and compositions with excerpts from his always collaborative projects: 7 Poets Trio (with Patricia Brennan, vibraphone and Tomeka Reid, cello), Thumbscrew (with Michael Formanek, bass and guitarist Mary Halvorson), a duo with bassist Meshell Ndegeocello, and Triple Double for Fujiwara and Gerald Cleaver, drums; Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook, guitars; and Ralph Alessi, Adam O’Farrill, trumpets.


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Roulette is an internationally recognized performing arts venue and presenter of experimental music, movement, and media in Downtown Brooklyn. Originally founded in 1978 by a group of artists in a Tribeca loft in NYC, Roulette’s mission is to support artists creating new and adventurous art in all disciplines by providing them with a venue and resources to realize their creative visions and to build an audience interested in the evolution of experimental art.


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