Marco Minnemann: Normalizer 2 with a host of players hits the ground running!

What is Normalizer 2?
It’s actually a 51 min drum solo I did (tried to do it as musical as possible) and I’m inviting artists to write and record music to it! ……Mike Keneally, Trey Gunn, Alex Machacek, John Czajkowski, Jason Sadites, Mario Brinkmann, Phi Yaan-Zek and myself teamed up to deliver our “pizza-toppings” to the solo drums. Everyone of us works separately on our own version, nobody is allowed to listen to each others separate approach during the writing process! It’s a huge challenge and I’m overexcited to hear how different each artist’s composition will sound in the end, based and written to that same drum solo. …..it was quiet exciting to play a 51 min drum solo I must say. I played it non-stop and the challenge was to keep it interesting and to see how far I can take it musically and technically. I always record and rehearse solos as part of my practice routine. But this one was somehow special and in no time I found myself surrounded with all these great players wanting to contribute music to it.

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