Mark Guiliana has become recognized as one of the world\u2019s leading drummers, admired and in demand across the spectrum from jazz to rock to electronic music for his rhythmic sophistication, creative impulse, and individual sound. He has been in the vanguard of drummers creating a new vernacular on the instrument, blending virtuosity on acoustic drums with artfully deployed electronic beats and processing. With Beat Music \u2013 Guiliana\u2019s electric band featuring a number of varied guests, hard-edged grooves and synthetic-organic fusions blend with filmic atmospherics and vocals, all driven by Guiliana\u2019s sonic ingenuity and percussive virtuosity. In the Spring of 2019 Motema Music is slated to release the next Beat Music record. \u201cElectronic music is a huge inspiration for me,\u201d he explains. \u201cThe first time I heard Squarepusher\u2019s Feed Me Weird Things, it hit me like the first time I heard Tony Williams with Miles. Then hearing Aphex Twin was like hearing Elvin Jones with Coltrane.<\/p>\n
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Experiencing that electronic music \u2013 its precision, discipline, timbral imagination \u2013 was just as profound for me as hearing those jazz drumming icons. So, marrying the discipline of electronic music with the improvisational sense of jazz is a lot of what the Beat Music is about.\u201d All About Jazz calls him \u201ca beat poet of another sort\u2026 one of the few drummers who can creatively straddle and blur the electro-acoustic dividing line.\u201d One thing is for sure \u2013 over the last decade, Mark Guiliana has become \u201cone of the most influential drummers of his generation\u201d (JazzTimes).<\/p>\n","videos":[{"video":"