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I ENDORSE FABULOUS HAND-MADE DRUMS from DEEJAY DRUMS .
They're stave shell drums made from recycled native Australian timbers. That's them in the background photo .... BEAUTIFUL!!
Member of - 'Kubrick', 'Fred Neeson Jazz Explosion'. Performed with 100's of local, interstate, and overseas artists.
Performed in Europe, America, India and Singapore.
Many performances throughout Australia. Performed and or recorded with Archie Roach, Eric Bogle, Entropy, Spacejunk, Lido, Splinter Group, Sympathy Orchestra, Shunt, Sweet Baby James, Geoff Achison, John Hanson, Lachlan Mcleod, Peter Gelling, Shelley Hirsch (USA), Oren Ambarchi, Jim Denley, Karel Gott (Czech), John Schumann, The Beggars, Women with Standards, Catherine Lambert, Borderer's, Colcannon, Chakrini, Freshly Squeezed, Trace Canini, The Rest, Jeanette Wormald etc.
Performed on - two ARIA nominated CD's, Multi award winning soundtrack of the Rolf de heer film 'The Tracker'. Musical Director and performer for the Fringe best play (week 1) award winning production ' Been So Long'.
Studied with - Bob Moses, Victor Lewis, Debashish Chakraborty.
Author of 8 internationally distributed instructional drum books distributed by L.T.P Publishing.
PRINT MEDIA QUOTES:
"swings with the best of them" - 'The Blues Audience', New England, USA, December 1994.
"making percussion far more complex and interesting than simple timekeeping" ... "the future of contemporary jazz is in extremely talented hands" - 'The Advertiser', Adelaide, April 21st 2004.
"one of those enviable drummers that makes their ultra complex and hot solos look effortless" - 'OnDit', February 2005.
"precision drumming" ... "Lauritsen's percussion work was beautifully synchronised with the often unpredictable melody lines producing a unique four-way cohesion." - 'The Advertiser', Adelaide, April 26th 2005.
