A little JAM-SESSION...

[Johan VDS]

Here's a track recorded during a jam-session on which you can hear my cymbals being played by British studio/session drummer Emre Ramazanoglu. He has been playing my cymbals for a while. As you'll hear, he uses a selection of my trashier cymbals.

http://www.emremusic.com/ChrisJerometrack.mp3

To rule out any misunderstandings, he doesn't endorse my cymbals but he has given up his Zildjian endorsement because he wanted to play my cymbals.
I simply don’t give endorsements to anyone since the “blanks” I prefer to use (mainly professional Zildjian, Sabian and Ufip cymbals) are far too expensive and my profits are very low as it is. Also, I don’t even charge half of my work when modifying other people's cymbals. So if you see anyone famous playing my cymbals… they have payed for them, just like anybody else.

Anyway, Emre is awesome drummer and he is also an engineer/producer, so I am proud that he prefers to play my cymbals. He has recorded and worked with artists such as
Shakira
Prodigy
Tricky
Afrika Bambaata
Alison Moyet
Sneaker Pimps
Keith Tippet
Jim Abbiss
Neil Macllellan
Mekon

Emre also plays drums (and my cymbals) on the forthcoming Lou Rhodes album (out in september), which he has also produced. Lou Rhodes is the singer from the British triphop-band Lamb.

[Mutch]

The man is really talented. I'm not used to listen to that kind of music but I really enjoyed this song.
And I love the sound of your cymbals! I saw your work on a few cymbals of members of ladrummerie but I had never heard it in a song. Keep up the good work !

By the way, sorry for my English but I only learnt it at highschool!

[J.]

I've listened to a few of the samples on your website, and I really appreciate your work. I'm giving them a listen every now and then, actually; they often sound dark and complex, which is exactly the kind of sounds I'm into.
I might get in touch with you someday… Keep up the good work anyway, your work is fascinating!

[vavou]

your cymbal s are so elegant.

it is incredible...


claps! claps! claps!

[Johan VDS]

Thanks !!!!

Those cymbals were of course all fairly light ones. If you want to hear some of my heavier cymbals, here's a couple of recordings of myself playing some of my more rock oriented cymbals. First there are 2 videoclips of me playing a solo. You need Real player or the free alternative to Real player which can be downloaded at http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Rea ... native.htm

Then there is also a concert of me and a guitarist playing mostly improvised music, just guitar and drums. Sound quality isn't good, it has been recorded with a simple cassette-recorder. You can download the complete concert if you download all the mp3's and play them in the correct order.

The 2 video's and the concert can be downloaded at http://jojo.byethost32.com/


On the recordings you can also hear the snaredrums which I have built myself from plies of high-grade Finnish birchwood.


EDIT 13/7/7:
Luke Flowers from the Cinematic Orchestra is also playing my cymbals from now on.