{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 440 Percussionist Blake Fleming","description":" Blake Fleming is a percussionist, author, and educator known for his work with experimental bands and for writing The Book of Rhythm, an encyclopedia of over 5,000 organized rhythms for all instruments. The book has been sold in more than 20 countries and was a top 5 instruction title in the 2020 Modern Drummer Reader\u2019s Poll, and Blake was featured in SPIN\u2019s 100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music. He has recorded and toured across jazz, rock, and avant-garde scenes, and his drumming has been covered by outlets including The New York Times, NPR, Spin, Rolling Stone, MOJO, Modern Drummer, and Pitchfork. In addition to studio work and teaching students worldwide through live online lessons, he has completed his second full-length album, The Beat Fantastic, scheduled for release later this summer on vinyl and digitally via blakefleming.bandcamp.com. Blake co-founded and drummed for the math-rock\/post-hardcore group Dazzling Killmen in the early 1990s, later touring with Japan\u2019s Zeni Geva in 1996. In the late \u201990s, he formed the experimental instrumental quartet Laddio Bolocko, and in 2001 became the co-founding drummer of The Mars Volta, recording early demos and briefly returning for touring in 2006. He went on to form Electric Turn To Me, contributed to projects like The Rollo Treadway. Blake has an extensive studio r\u00e9sum\u00e9, recording with Omar Rodr\u00edguez-L\u00f3pez on multiple solo releases and contributing session work for artists including Kim Taylor, The Ropes, and Israel Nash Gripka. ","author_name":"The Lydian Spin","author_url":"http:\/\/lydianspin.net","html":"