Experimental percussionist/composer Dan Drohan has a new track entitled “Leave It Loading” from his upcoming LP You’re a Crusher / drocan! due out June 26th. The accomplished drummer and producer has lent his talents to the psych-rock outfit Olden Yolk, Maggie Rogers’ Blood Ballet, as well as the project Dreamaway, while also releasing music under the name Bermuda Kid.
Drohan’s upcoming effort came out of two very different kinds of musical sessions. The musician reports that You’re a Crusher was put together over a two year period while living in Brooklyn with his family and working with the group élan, a quartet with guitarists Bobbie Johnston and Derek Smith, and vocalist Élan Orr. YAC was recorded with those musicians and later tweaked and repurposed on his laptop.
The second half of the record arose out of working with a new collaborator, the multi-instrumentalist Mike Cantor. After a chance meeting at a wedding, where Cantor was DJ, the two quickly began working together back at Drohan’s new studio at his home in Massachusetts. The sessions during January of this year yielded the material that would become drocan!, and they find the percussionist adding vocals to the duo’s varied electronic experiments.
“Leave It Loading” can be found on the first half of the album, and it includes Johnston on guitar and Smith on bass. Discussing the track, Drohan explains:
“The playing wasn’t edited as much as treated and mangled. The track served conceptually in my mind as a statement of patience and deciding to let something lie for a while before jumping to conclusions or jumping to a solution. It’s also a statement on just living! Staying off the computer, taking moments to go outside. Leave the computer loading, whatever you’re downloading and go do something else…”
