My background includes years touring on bass with Big Lost, producing hundreds of tracks for film and commercials, a drum solo behind a fire-breathing stripper in a roller rink in Bangkok, sitar lessons in India and Nepal, and chanting prayers as a Buddhist monk in Thailand.

I’m a multi-instrumentalist: sitar, guitar, drums, piano & keyboards. I don’t think much in chords. I seem to work from independent melodic lines in the tradition of counterpoint, although I hasten to add I’ve never studied formally except a Harmonic Analysis class in a UCLA Extension course. My grandfather, grandmother, great uncle, and father, in his early days, were all musicians. Among my musical inspirations are early works by Weather Report and Miles Davis, Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band, ethnic artists like Ravi Shankar and Zap Mama, and others like Hendrix, The Beatles, and producers and engineers like George Martin and Geoff Emerick. Their Beatles albums are, well, what can you say? The sound of the tracks is just plain amazing. Engineering is the yin of the yang in music.

After my band days, I graduated magna cum laude from Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Film Production and got experience in a wide array of music, composing and producing with some of Los Angeles’s finest composers, studio players, and engineers for film and advertising, including years with Dolly Parton for her theme park. These days, I focus on my music.

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