Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core's lyrics & chords

Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core was formed in June 2000 as the trio of saxophone (Larry Ochs) and 2 drummers (Scott Amendola & Donald Robinson) for a special “concept album” that Ochs wanted to record. The Core's music then (and now):  a meditation on and a 21st-century distillation of the songs and sounds of American and eastern European blues-shouters, and of traditional chant-singers from Asia and Africa. Many of these vocalists can be heard working in a similar context: backed by one string player, or one hand drummer, or two background...read more