The Afrofunk Music Forum

David is part of a new generation of musicians, versatile and equally at home in traditional and modern music. He has performed professionally for more than a decade throughout the United States, as well as in Cuba, Canada, Europe, and Japan. David plays percussion with Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band and Fertile Ground. He also works as a ritual drummer and singer in the Afro-Cuban Lukumi tradition. His own experimental project, Io, fuses ambient and electronic music with acoustic music to create futuristic soundscapes (available through CDBaby.com and iTunes). David runs the independent label Elegua Records. These days, he is also working toward an advanced degree in Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland and exploring the universe of digital mixing, sampling, editing, effecting, and mutating sound as DJ Thick.