On Wednesday Mohamed was interviewed by Dave Craig on Volcano Radio 88.5 FM in Lyttleton. I will get a copy of the interview and post it here or post a link to the archived show in a couple of weeks.

Volcano Radio is a local live show with a focus on building community and supporting New Zealand musicians. Carmel and Dave are some very cool people and the interview was smooth.

Mohamed shared some of his background and story of how he came to NZ and then he played the Kora. The Kora is an African harp that has a history dating back to the 5th century. After that we played a couple of rhythms with Anton on the djun djuns.

It was my first time visiting a radio station and it was a very relaxed scene. Volcano Radio is launching their new website any day now. Also, keep an ear out for a world music show they are putting together for the weekend line up.

People ask me how many years I have been drumming.

Even though 19 years seems like a long time, the number doesn’t tell the whole story. I took 2-3 years off while living on Maui. And I have been working full time for all those years.

I think a better way to look at the question, “how long have you been drumming” is to keep track of the number of hours that someone actually has their hands playing on a drum. This would be similar to an airplane pilot and the way their flight times are recorded. Instead of logging 500 hours of flying an airplane, a drummer would have X number of hours playing a drum.