Grateful for another wonderful holiday party with family and friends.
Solo Videos
Incognito performed at the first BaliLive Festival in Bali, Indonesia. March, 2014.
British band, Incognito performed at the first BaliLive Festival in Bali, Indonesia. João Caetano and Francesco Mendolia perform drum solos with Incognito.
Gilmar Gomes at Congahead Studio
Leslie Cartaya at Congahead Studios
Leslie Cartaya stops by our studio while touring around the New York area to perform one of compositions, Bolero Blue.
Mauricio Herrera Performing Around Different Parts of YouTube Space NY
Mauricio Herrera video that Javier shot while being part of YouTube’s NextUp 2016 at the’Round YouTube Space NY
This past March we received the news that congahead was chosen along 17 other creators to be part of YouTube’s NextUp 2016.
Eric Velez performs My Bronx Memory
Afuriko at congahead
Akiko Horii and Jim Funnell brought their unique duo to Congahead Studios for the second time.
Candido, Almost 94, Performs at Martin’s 76th Birthday Party
Candido Camero, just 3 months shy of his 94th birthday performed for my delighted guests and fans all around the world during the live stream of my 76th birthday.
See other videos and photos from the party here
‘Round The Town Percussion Feat. Marcos Lopez
‘Round The Town productions feature world class musicians performing one song in multiple locations around a city. In this one we feature Marcos Lopez in NYC.
Sergio Krakowski’s Pandeiro Talking Drum Project
Talking Drums is the multi-media project by Sergio Krakowski that brings a new form of expression for percussion players. After developing his own self-taught technique on the Pandeiro (brazilian tambourine) and after engaging himself into a successful international career as a Pandeiro player, Sergio decided to apply his math knowledge to allow percussion instruments to trigger videos, control effects and interact with the machine creating real dialogs between percussionist and computer.
Soon these tools will be available on the market in the format of a pedal to be used with any kind of percussion.
In the Talking Drums project, Sergio used the technology he developed in his PhD to actually make the drum speak. Behind this idea there is a strong artistic research on what is the limit between rhythm and spoken language that takes us to ancient times where the distance between these two things was smaller or inexistent.
How LP (Latin Percussion) Began-Over 50 Years of Untold Stories
This video tells of how the first bongo was conceived of and created. The first hardware was created in a company building military instrumentation. That very same bongo was recreated in 2014 as the 50th Anniversary model that has already become the go to bongo by the leading players who have passed through the congahead.com studio.
