Marco MINNEMANN: The Normalizer

Modern Drummer : MD, 20090305 by Haid, Mike

Since his June 2007 Modern Drummer cover story, German drumming master Marco Minnemann has performed numerous clinics, drum festivals, and concerts worldwide, recorded two multi-instrumental solo projects [House Wife Dog & Two Kids, A Mouth Of God), appeared on the animated TV series Metalocalypse, recorded performance segments for the drumming Web site Drum Channel, and contributed to a variety of eclectic recording projects. He also masterminded a recording concept called Normalizer, a fifty-two-minute drum solo template for musicians to build songs from.

Artists who have jumped on the Normalizer bandwagon include Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa), Trey Gunn (King Crimson), and Alex Machacek (BPM). The project will be released as a box set on the Abstract Logix label....

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