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First Inventions for Djembe

by julian Broadhurst

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FIfDj No. 1- Rh 124 07:52
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FIfDj No. 2 - Rh 125 12:41
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FIfDj No. 3 - Rh 126 11:27
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FIfDj No. 4 - Rh 127 02:38
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FIfDj No. 5 - Rh 128 17:38
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FIfDj No. 6 - Rh 129 13:20
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FIfDj No. 7 - Rh 130 12:10
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DCM 006 - First Inventions for Djembe - Drum music, Dm 6. - my Sixth Album. A landmark set of Inventions for my signature Instrument - Rh 124 –130. After the Set of inventions for Shamanic Drum, my first Album, Dm 1, I had determined to create sets of inventions for many different percussion instruments. I chose for this next set to use the instrument dearest to my heart and recording history - the Djembe. I own dozens of them - some of them huge.

Invention is a term and a notion I borrowed from Bach - where I reach into myself ‘for’ the music I need. Invention – is the Act of Intension, of Calculation and Provision, in the Moment. The subtle and fractous concideration of pattern, and the fretwork of timing and fingering – the ‘Moment,’ of Momentum, pushing always for variation.

These pieces, these inventions, were recorded live to tape in one contiuous take, at my Drum Studio. I was a stage performer long before I could record and he nececcity to ‘Perform,’ even in the studio, kept me on my points. I called these the 'First’ Inventions for Djembe - the story goes - because I thought I'd be making many such sets in quick succession. As it happened this set pushed me so far that it would be years before I could attempt a Second set. There are now Six such sets - and twelve Drum sonatas - and that I think will do.


FIFDj no. 1 – Rh 124. Sets of fast Internal Variations, where a two bar phrase is answered by an opposing two bar phrase. Each time tossing the turning of finguring, ordering and emphasis, to progress through invention.

FIFDj no. 2 – Rh 125. A stridant backstepping figure opens the piece and recurs as a motif deep into the piece, at quite long intervals, if you listen for it. Benith these recurrences are the four way variations of the first invention but suppressed by syncopating tensions higher up. A lot more going on now to beg the listener to follow me. A signiture piece for me I’v often used to introduce my work

FIFDj no.3 – Rh 126. Theams and syncopations tumbling over one another in a complex turns that carry the pace.

FIFDj no. 4 – Rh 127. A Very short invention that eats itself – opening flurries end with with a repeitious figure that grows longer each time, till that is all that remains, these grow softer and softer till I stop. It dose not fade – this whole session is live to tape, as a single performance. Be there with me.

FIFDj no. 5 – Rh 128. The Big one, seventeen minutes, that is a whole side of an LP nearly, in the old style. A friend [Aaron Williamson], once wrote a book of poetry called the ‘Kingdoms Discharge of His Head.’ Don’t know quite what he meant by it but I hope he wont mind if I quote the phrase here – seventeen minutes of continuous invention – live to tape, and just the midpart of this set. I was young and full of music – it poured out. We actually have Four lines – two in each hand, that dance together in their part – a heavy bass and very light top snip – And they dance and weave together to form the lines of the peace. This weaving together is a Fifth Part, giving Three lines of counterpoint – The Bass – The Top and Their Interaction. I had to pause a good few minutes before I could pick up the drum again.

FIFDj no. 6 – Rh 129. an insistant rhythm emerges in the Bass to dominate the majarity of the piece. An aparant stability that is anything but stable – as the detail of which, is constantly changing. Patterns evolve and fade in a few itterations. An outward stability made up of an Instability in the detail – ‘where hides the Devil in the Detail.’

FIFDj no. 7 – Rh 130. Well I conclude with this - a pared down exercise in running rolls with one two and hree fingers at a time. Speeding and slowing, to develop a halting, rising and falling, saw tooth of a dance – come and join the dance. This piece, is one of the reasons why I say, that this set, pushed me so far that I couldn’t atempt another for years.Ffor the Djembe that is. After I had wound up this ‘Blue Cherry’ Group, of early albums, with the draw string collection of album 27, album 28, was a set of inventions for Tibetan Drum. The First Album of my ‘New Horizon’ Group. - away off at Rh 150 - twenty pieces down the line.


An early reorganization of my music research interest defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Drum music – Percussion on Drums of various kinds 'Percussion specifically on Drums of many kinds - as a speciality’ – Dm by convention.

Albums 1 - 7, collect together first seven Dm albums, placed in a block, one of 5 blocks, placed like books on a shelf. in an in an overarching 'Group' of my first 27 albums. Five Blocks for the Five Tranches - as they were founded (more of less) - five sets of studies and pieces, as my Foundational Group 'Blue Cherry' [after a friend]. The foundation stone the rest of my music is built on - in four further Groups.

The Seven Dm albums in the Blue Cherry Group are Dm 1 - a set of inventions for an American frame drum: Dm 2 – in a landmark set of the first 5 of my 12 Drum sonatas: Dm 3 - 5 are three volumes of Drum Studies; Dm 6 is in aother landmark set, the first of my 6 sets of Inventions for Djembe; finally Dm 7 is a fourth set of Drum studies.

The album numbers are volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition.- The DCM Broadhurst Edition - Prepared for the British Library in 2019. The Volumes or Albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition.- The DCM Broadhurst Edition - Prepared for the British Library in 2019. The Volumes or Albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my works in order of Completion.

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released March 12, 2011

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