In terms of study and teaching, Brazilian music is mostly what I'm known for, but the music I record, my album projects veer into all sorts of other territory.

Although you'll find one or two pieces that are purely rhythms of Candomblé, or Samba-Reggae, Samba-Afro or Samba for instance, much of my music is experimental. I've never wanted to replicate something that others can and do do much better than me.

I like to re-create, to add something of myself and it’s that, the process of doing that that drives me to write, record and to produce music.

Whether the music I make works or not isn't really the point. Creating music is always a voyage into the unknown and I like that.  

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My music album projects (Blood Earth Water, The Giving, Omolu and River goes Ocean), can be found here in bandcamp: https://jonhardeman.bandcamp.com/music

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