ooda-thunk!
ooda-thunk! started as a jam session between two friends with no preconceived idea to make it a duo, let alone record an album.
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Our collaboration was birthed in the beautiful, natural environment of Noordhoek, Cape Town.
When we first jammed in the early 2000's, croc E was a poet without a guitar in his hand and had no idea of how to play one.
He arrived one day at one of our jam sessions with a guitar and we played, croc E playing a repetitive riff, adding and subtracting beats to a bar..I found this quite humorous and it became a game for me to guess where “1” was. I helped him understand that if we were going to play together he had to play a riff with consistent beats in a bar .
We would play and journey on these riffs with the music rising and falling, both feeling really energized after our sessions.
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Through this process, croc E learnt the skill of song writing on the guitar and then adding his lyrics. He has an unorthodox rhythmically driven approach to playing the guitar, and with so much space in the music, drew out of me a very creative, syncopated way of interpreting the music. Using a drumkit with many drums and cymbals has allowed me to move beyond the role of timekeeper and play more musically, punctuating his lyrics.
I play with nylon brushes which add to the warmth of the music, giving it a very organic feel.
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