Idris Records is a fresh new independent label entering into a brand new world of music. As this world is always changing and adapting, Idris maintains flexibility and forward-thinking. Musical styles from all around the world are evolving and being blended into revolutionary new sounds. The business of music has an entirely new face and a fresh outlook in which the focus is coming back to simply making great music. This is the movement and this movement has begun.

Check out Idris Records Debut Release... Dan Bailey "RISE WILD STEPPER"

We are excited to welcome a very special guest teacher from Ghana...

Master Drummer & Dancer Okoe Ardyfio. He will be sharing the traditions of West African culture with us all summer! Experience the exciting and energetic RHYTHMS & DANCES.

The New York Times

New York, Sunday, May 6, 2007

Learning the Language of the Drum

By NICOLE COTRONEO,RIVERHEAD

A YOUNG man with a head of honey-brown curls bounces his right hand off a hand drum held steady with his legs. “Gun!” he says forcefully, pronouncing it as “goon.”

Repeating the motion with his left hand, he says, “Dun!”

Only minutes into Talking Drum, an African drumming class at the East End Arts Council on East Main Street, the meaning of the course’s name reveals itself. The instructor, Daniel Bailey, 24, is teaching his students a language: a verbal expression of the sounds made by the djembe (pronounced JEM-bay), an African drum, when it is properly played.