Remo Djembe Drum - Key TunedREMO Djembe Drums are the most popular of all of their World Percussion instruments.
Key-tuned REMO djembes are as widely used by touring professionals as they are in drum circles. The high slaps and deep bass tones from all REMO Djembes are from the Type 2 FIBERSKYN 3 drumhead and ACOUSTICON shell. This 14-inch model featuers 8 lugs and an Earth-pattern FabriFinish covering.
Djembe
Remo djembes are based upon the traditional drums of the West African Mandingo people, originating from the great Mali Empire of the 13th and 14th century.
Developed with the assistance of world-renowned Djembe players, Remo’s key, rope, and cable-tuned Djembes feature superb sound quality, lightweight design, are easily tuned in any kind of weather, and always easy to play.
These versatile instruments are then combined with Remo’s modern advances including a Type 2 FIBERSKYN® 3 head on this drum key-tuned model.
As the world's drumhead specialist for over 40 years, Remo, Inc. has developed an incredibly wide variety of drumheads at fit every drumming application. Not only is a full selection of Remo heads availabe to meet the diverse needs of drumset players in country, jazz, rock, pop, R&B, hip-hop, latin and every other style, Remo heads also bring advanced technologies and exceptional performance capabilities to the specialized needs to players in the marching, concert and world percussion areas. Indeed, with so many types, weights and sizes available, selecting the ideal head for any drum or situation requires an understanding of the performance levels that each head is designed to achieve.
Remo Djembe Key-Tuned Artists
Leon Mobley
Da Lion
Leon began to play African drum rhythms in 1967 and studied for ten years with Nigerian master drummer Babatunde Olatunji at the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Leon has had theatrical training and appeared regularly on the PBS daily television show Zoom. He is an accomplished musician and performs regularly in numerous musical genres including jazz, reggae, and rock. Leon has appeared on the works of many recording artists and has self-produced four CDs and cassette tapes of djembe rhythms and songs.
In 1977 Leon studied under the directorship of Senegalese master drummer Ibrahim Camara (former drummer for the National Ballet of Senegal) while a member of the Bokan-Deye Dance Company.
Leon studied and performed from 1979 to 1981 in Surinam, South America and Trinidad Tobago, and the West Indies. He continued his studies during 1982 in Senegal and Gambia. In 1987 and 1992 he traveled to Japan, where he taught and performed West African Drumming and Dancing. While in Japan he visited Sado Island, home of Kodo, the internationally acclaimed percussion group, in a cultural exchange program. He traveled to South Africa in 1991-1992 where he performed with returning exiles Letta Mbulu, Caiphus Semenya, and Hugh Masekela. From 1993 until 1997, Leon toured the world with Ben Harper. He was also in Germany, Italy, and Israel producing, recording, and conducting clinics on his own.
Leon has a great deal of experience teaching African drum rhythms. While in Boston he taught at community centers, conducted school tours with the Art of Black Dance and Music, and conducted workshops at Berklee College of Music. He became musical director at Paige Academy, a private school in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Leon continued teaching after moving to Los Angeles in 1986. He conducted weekly classes at UCLA, Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Theater, Parks and Recreation, and the Los Angeles High School for the Arts on the campus of Cal State (Los Angeles).
Mobley is the founder and artistic and musical director of Da Lion and Djimbe West African Drummers and Dancers. He founded these two groups in order to help preserve African cultures, and present authentic traditional West African-American dance and music. Through these two groups, Leon continues his mission of educating others about the West African people, their customs, history, and cultural arts as well as their influence and ties with people in the USA.
Urbano Oliveira
Drum Circle Facilitator
www.urbanodrums.com
Urbano Oliveira is a pioneer and an active, enthusiastic advocate of Recreational Music Making and drums dircles in Portugal and Spain.
As a professional Drum Circle Facilitator, speaker, musician and teacher, he has extensive experience with young people, adults, in schools, universities and corporations. Urbano has received training from Arthur Hull and Village Music Circles at their "Rhythmical Alchemy Playshop" and has also completed the Health Rhythm trainings taught by Barry Bittman, MD and Christine Stevens, MA, MSW, MT-BC.
Since signing with Remo®, Inc.Urbano has facilitated rhythm based events throughout the Portugal and Spain for Portuguese and Spanish television, conferences and meetings, I Festival de Grups de Percussió del Conservatori Professional de Música i Dansa de Palma de Mallorca, IV Congresso Nacional de Arte-Terapia, Roche, ROVERWAY 2003, BP, Merck, Volvo, Tecnifar, Swatch, Novartis, among others
Urbano Oliveira is also the author of the drumming instructional video "Percussão para Todos" and the CD entitled "People n'Drums"
ABOUT REMO
A Drummer’s Drumhead Company
First and foremost, let’s get something straight. Remo® is a drummer’s drumhead company. After all, for over 45 years, Remo has constantly and consistently broken new ground when it comes to industry firsts. While we were doing what we do best, the competition continued to chase, follow and mimic our technological prowess. Better yet, by the time they even came close to catching up, we were already onto the next big idea. Ultimately, when it comes to our skills as a drumhead manufacturer, no one can touch the technical and musical advantages that Remo drumheads always provide.
In fact, our competitors’ attempts to ride our coattails also pushed us to work smarter, as well as harder. Innovation quickly became part of our DNA.
An Unusually Durable, Inexpensive, Weather Resistant Material
The Remo story began after WWII when experiments were being made with Mylar®* a polyester film made by DuPont™. (Mylar® was used during the war as a heat resistant film for nighttime reconnaissance flights.) This unusually durable, inexpensive, weather resistant material that provided previously unattainable pitch, tone and consistency intrigued Remo D. Belli, an already successful drummer. And, because of Mylar®, Remo began his legacy with the Weatherking™ drumheads, the very first Remo first.
Innovation and Technical Sophistication
Throughout the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, Remo continued to innovate and became the world’s drumhead specialist in virtually every category. From percussionists and orchestral timpanists to drum corps, jazz, blues and rock. Technical sophistication never before imagined in drum heads reached new heights, thanks to new laminations and coatings found in other Remo firsts such as Controlled Sound™, Pinstripe™, Smooth White™, Powerstroke™, Fiberskyn®, Suede™, Renaissance® and Nuskyn™. Understanding how drumheads should be designed and how they should ultimately sound soon became our foundation for other applications, such as children’s drums–another industry first. This brings us to Advanced Acousticon™, our latest technological feat. A unique, wood-based shell material that reflects wood’s best qualities, but is more consistent and easier to work with. The end result? Richer, more durable, better sounding drums. With the advent of Advanced Acousticon, Remo is now leading the fastest growing category in the business–world percussion.
Because of our advances in drumheads, percussion and all things rhythmic, the world isn’t only listening, but also playing like there’s no tomorrow. And if we can accomplish all this and more in a matter of 45 years, imagine what the next few decades are going to be like.
* Mylar® is a registered trademark of DuPont Teijin Films for its polyester film.