Thunderdrums May 13, 2009

Frank Bloom recently stepped away from being Mickey Hart's drum tech to pursue a music career of his own. "World-beat percussion fused to electronica in a unique fashion" would be the best description for the solo act known as Thunderdrums. Frank Bloom has simply taken his broad vocabulary of drumset and percussion and given an "old trick" a new twist: Looping unlike what most audiences have ever seen. The melding of organic instrumentation with electronic nuances has brought Frank to the crossroads of tribal, trance, house, drum-n-bass compositions that have audiences on their feet. Frank's onstage setup is most aptly described as "big" with an array of handdrums, percussion instruments, drumset, looping and effects pedals, samplers, drum machines and sometimes a keyboard.