Album artwork for Drum Major Instinct by Jeff Arnal/Curt Cloninger

Drum Major Instinct is an experimental music duo from Asheville, North Carolina. Jeff Arnal plays (mostly) percussion and Curt Cloninger plays (mostly) modular synthesizer. The Wire describes Jeff’s drumming as a “highly original concept" having "a balletic sense of time and imaginative deployment of colour;” and Byron Coley says Curt's modular synthesis “moves like blocks of radioactive adobe being shifted around by architects in space suits.” But, of course, nothing is ever that straightforward. The resultant music is about waves of energy, patterns within patterns (within patterns), sounds from the natural world, and running the voodoo down.

Jeff Arnal/Curt Cloninger

Drum Major Instinct

Mahakala Music
Album artwork for Drum Major Instinct by Jeff Arnal/Curt Cloninger
CD

$14.99

Released 08/19/2022Catalog Number

CD-MAHA-034

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Jeff Arnal/Curt Cloninger

Drum Major Instinct

Mahakala Music
Album artwork for Drum Major Instinct by Jeff Arnal/Curt Cloninger
CD

$14.99

Released 08/19/2022Catalog Number

CD-MAHA-034

Learn more

Drum Major Instinct is an experimental music duo from Asheville, North Carolina. Jeff Arnal plays (mostly) percussion and Curt Cloninger plays (mostly) modular synthesizer. The Wire describes Jeff’s drumming as a “highly original concept" having "a balletic sense of time and imaginative deployment of colour;” and Byron Coley says Curt's modular synthesis “moves like blocks of radioactive adobe being shifted around by architects in space suits.” But, of course, nothing is ever that straightforward. The resultant music is about waves of energy, patterns within patterns (within patterns), sounds from the natural world, and running the voodoo down.