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In the Summer of 2006 I was invited by the University of Derby, to give a second Drum recital, in the big hall of their Multifaith Centre - ‘A summer Evening’s Drumming.’ Afterwards a man in the audience said that he had a recording studio at Marehay [Derbyshire, UK] and invited me to come and use it, I did not need to be asked twice. These seven inventions were recorded in one continuous session, that afternoon as my First Album. The instrument here is a beautiful American Frame Drum, sometimes called a Shamanic Drum, lent to me for the performance by Pat Duncliffe, Collector/ Maker at Dunwood Drums, run together with Del Woods. At this time I was still performing under the stage name of ‘Perpetuum Mobile,’ and the album was released as ‘Perpetuum Mobile 1.’ To be, I thought, a sideline to my main occupation as a Contemporary Artist. A second album, recorded later [in two further sessions] was left unfinished - but shifting me into music and a break with Art was imminent. I then adopted this new life in music under my own name, and the 2 PM albums were taken up into a new notation - now at my own Studio, the Drum Studio’, as 'Drum music’, Dm 1 & 2'. The Rh catalogue, numbers my works in order of Completion. However the Rh Catalogue, omitted the 15 pieces recorded as Perpetuum Mobile, so they become Rh P1 - 15 preserving the ‘P' in Perpetuum, as the ‘P’ in 'Pre', solving the problem at a stroke.
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