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Ben Brown

Drums, Percussion & Producer

"Ben Brown is an instantly recognisable drummer whose career is built around his ten-armed ability to to be percussionist, kit drummer, bandleader and ethnomusicologist in one."

- Justin Turford, Truth and Lies Music
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Thank you for visiting the website of drummer, percussionist and producer Ben Brown. Having studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Ben's creative output encompasses anything jazz and hip hop to electronic music, with particular leaning towards African & Latin American folk music styles. He's been lucky enough to tour the world with various top international artists like Alfa Mist, Mulatu Astatke, Ashley Henry, Judi Jackson, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Rebello, Dizraeli and many others as far as Australasia, Africa, Asia and across Europe.

 

His own band Waaju has released two internationally acclaimed albums, where he acts as producer and composer. Both albums were named "Essential Jazz Albums of the Year" upon release across numerous European platforms and the band has been consistently championed by the likes of Jordan Rakei, Gilles Peterson, Jungle, Jazz FM and Worldwide FM.

“He has a poetic delicate balance and bounce with sticks in hand” - Art of Jazz
"Brown's playing is on fire" - Songlines Magazine
“Ben Brown is, without doubt, one of my favourite young jazz drummers. He is musically interactive, highly creative and really listens and supports a performance from beginning to end with great imagination. This young man has a great future of music making ahead of him" 

- Jean Toussaint
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PROJECTS

Projects

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Rhythms pulse. Skins Resonate. Feet shuffle and heartbeats quicken. Waaju’s energy builds, weaving psychedelic soundscapes through potent beats, transcending the stage and melting into bodies. With a unique approach to a familiar sound, they rise from London’s rich cultural palette, proving UK Jazz doesn’t have to sound the way we expect it to.

Ben Brown - drums, composition & producer

 

Sam Rapley - tenor saxophone

 

Tal Janes - guitar

 

Joe Downard - bass

 

Ernesto Marichales - percussion

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For more info, please visit www.waaju.co.uk 

Other Projects...

Alfa Mist

 

Jason Rebello Quartet

 

Dizraeli

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Judi Jackson

 

Rebecca Ferguson

 

 

 

 

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REMOTE RECORDING

Remote Recording

 

I've recorded remotely for numerous artist releases, library music, adverts and film pieces on drums and percussion. My studio's equipment list is as follows:


- Universal Audio 8xp interface

- Daking Pre Amp's

- Vintage 1970's Space Echo RE201 Delay & Spring Reverb

- Vintage Telefunken TF39

- Advanced Audio CM87se

- Vintage Beyerdynamic M58 N(C)

- x2 Neumann Neumann KM 185

- x2 Shure SM57

- AKG D112

 

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Discography

DISCOGRAPHY

 

 

My Favourite Things

 

Film Score

 

EP

 

Jazz Just Wants to Have Fun

 

EP

 

Mime Music

 

Holy Boy

 

EP

 

Imprints

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The Realm

 

Waaju

 

8 Songs

 

Freewheelin'

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Film Score

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Lanterns

 

Twoism

 

Grown

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The Way We Watched the Landscape

Live in Cambridge

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Yewoulen

 

Reflector

 

Orla

 

Life Long

 

Dream Dancing

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Krëodylia (single)

 

Live EP

 

Alive at the End of the World

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Terra Boa

 

Songs for Sisters, Brothers & Others

Fictions

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Bär

 

Joy Machine

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Songs for Them EP

 

We Ascend EP

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Mulatu of Ethiopia (single)

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Alouane

 

Perfect Strangers

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Joy Machine

(Instrumentals and Flips)

'Marvellous' & 'I Am the Ogre' (singles)​

Imagine More

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Sonko (single)

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Keeping It Together - EP

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Live at The Vortex

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Ears to Listen With:
Season #1 Ep #3

​Moja Kwa Moja EP

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I Hear Gold

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'The Pretty Fall' & 'Oh What Fun' (singles)

'Gossip Girls' (single)

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'Follow That Joy' (single)

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'DFAAN' (single)

 

 

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Drums

 

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some recordings include...

 

My Favourite Things

 

Middle East Side Story

 

Renny Jackson

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Beverley Beirne

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Twospeak

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Sam Watts

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Holy Boy

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Caravela

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Bahla

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Tom Neale

 

Waaju

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Liran Donin's 1000 Boats

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Braceman

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Mirror Mirror

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Jana

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Twospeak

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Waaju

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Liran Donin's 1000 Boats

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The Brass Funkeys

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Awale Jant Band

 

Twospeak

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Caravela

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Bahla

 

Beverley Beirne

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Laura Guarch

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Waaju

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Dizraeli

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Jonny Wickham

 

Jean Toussaint

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Twospeak

 

Johanna Burnheart

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Dizraeli

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Irini Arabatzi

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The Radicant

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Skinshape​​

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Waaju feat. Majid Bekkas

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Lophae​

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Dizraeli

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Dizreali

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Lophae

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Awale Jant Band

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Riva Taylor

 

Jean Toussaint Quintet

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​Ben Brown & Neil Charles

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The Zawose Queens

 

Twospeak

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Red,  The Riot

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Kawson Secka

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Diz Undone

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Diz Undone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEDIA

Media

Waaju live at London Jazz Cafe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dizraeli live in Bristol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alfa Mist live in Barcelona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bahla live at Pizza Express Club, London

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTACT

Contact

Ben is available for gigs, recording or commissions & can be reached at:

 

ben.g.brown@outlook.com

 

 

For more info on Waaju, please visit:

 

www.waaju.co.uk

 

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