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ghostbeat is performed through bryan's acoustic guitar and vocals, flavored with swatches of those influences listed on this page; and add whatever sort of music the union of those influences may produce unwittingly after a night of wild abandon together. Infuse Ken's drumming and harmonies with that, but he also manages to create a sound much stronger and fuller than expected from just two players. Ken took up doumbeks and djembes years before the cool rock bands did, sometimes playing them simultaneously with his drum kit.

Ken has recently formed a power-rock-pop trio Spearfish. Check his page from the friends links below for more details.

The name ghostbeat is taken indirectly from the book African Rhythms and African Sensibility by sociologist/master drummer John Miller Chernoff. He also played on David Byrne's Catherine Wheel and his intense studies of music there described their belief that all music is a gift from God whose drum provides the pulse of all music. Out of respect, they never play on top of what they call God's drum. We call it ghostbeat.

Their CDs; Got It and Water are the work of an electric powerpop trio, as is Living Room Music but unplugged. Off, Dive, and Ghostbeat Five culmiinated from studio demo sessions with no genre limitations or boundaries. Check their album page for details. Sessions are currently underway for their next release Old Friend Surprise. bryan is also loving staying busy as a staff writer/performer/producer for Songs of Love.

You can still catch ghostbeat at a house concert here and there.
You may be interested in contacting ghostbeat about their community project rhythms of the ages, which brings children and seniors together to create and play home-made percussion.