The Sound According to John

In a world where intelligent design and evolution are at odds with each other, scientists and theologians can agree on one thing:

John Belcher’s “The Sound According to John” is absolutely true.

When Einstein, Moondog and Nancarrow met for cocktails, their topic of conversation kept coming back to Belcher.

Belcher is a consummate drummer, composer, and self-described rhythmologist. The tracks on “The Sound” have elements of swing, samba, old, old school rap (think Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron), West African, Indian and Balinese music traditions, and mathematics. (Along with being a musician, Belcher is a mathematician.) Ultimately this is music about rhythm; the life of rhythm; the power of primordial sound, and where it can take you. These are just a few of the reasons that choreographers can’t get enough of him.

Whether you’re listening to this music over beer and your favorite Chinese take-out reading Darwin, or on a space mission to a black hole in search of a higher power, John guides you forward, backward, sideways, and cyclically through space and time, memory and emotion.

This is one man’s idea of an orderly universe, a gospel of balance. Remember that book “Goedel, Escher, Belcher?”