"Bongo" John is an established artist residing in the RDU area of North Carolina. With many years experience in professional recording as well as over 30 years playing drums, his interests in music continue to develop. Being a drummer, percussionist, and keyboard player has also helped him to better understand how to compliment other players in both studio and live performance.
With an eclectic taste in song-writing, he has managed to work with several styles/genres of music, such as rock, jam-band, funk, pop, reggae, folk, jazz, blues, drum-n-bass, electronica, world beat and classical.
Currently he is staying busy as a performer, occasionally writing songs and instrumentals. He is also in the process of revising a drum book with emphasis on the study of poly-rhythms.
Bongo John wears many 'hats'. As a drummer, he holds down the groove with the band Zegg, Edge Case, Joe Lies, and Rebecca Kane. As a recording engineer, he's mixing several projects - Jason Adamo, Cammie Ward, Confetti Rhetoric Regiment, Brad Stockham, Muddy Honcho and including said bands in which he is the drummer.
Bongo just released his 3rd solo record "Havana Sunrise", available on i-tunes as well as Amazon.com
Well on his way to overall success in his musical endeavors, Bongo John is very thankful to be involved with so many great musicians and songwriters in North Carolina....
I have an eclectic taste in song-writing, perpetually exploring several styles/genres of music, such as rock, jam-band, funk, pop, reggae, folk, jazz, blues, drum-n-bass, electronica, world beat, classical and experimental.
Formally the recording Engineer for Studio 313 in Morrisville, NC for almost 2 years utilizing Protools HD Control 24 surface. Studio 313 is an 80K+ facility. Introduced and trained current Studio 313 engineer Brett Hart (still on good terms with Jeff Creed, owner of Studio 313). Now, I also work at Raleigh Recording Studio in conjunction with Heartsong Productions - full service digital studio technology - as a producer & recording engineer (john@raleigh-recording.com).
At Bongo John Studios, I'm currently utilizing Sonar platform, building projects from ground up (pre-production, recording, mixing, and preparing projects for mastering). Have taken several records to the mastering stage at both The Kitchen in Carrboro, NC, Blue Field Mastering in Raleigh, NC, as well as Clever Soundworks run by Sean Aitken.
I now utilize The Sub Buss-ing Mixing Method to yield more headroom (64bit technology on mixdown stage) and mucho better sounding mixes...
