Closet Snare is a project involving a select group of talented and experienced musicians along with Visual Artist The Grrrl.
The project had been conceptualized 5 years ago, and it is now that these much talked about ideas are able to become a musical reality.
Closet Snare is a platform where the musicians performing may produce music without any boundaries, genres or trends.
The band was created as a release for working musicians that are often faced with the tiring reality of being categorized in spite of their love and ability to create music that has no name.

For the purpose of some sort of commercial gain, it will however be necessary for a more descriptive explanation in terms of the sound created by Closet Snare.

There is a strong jazz influence alongside beats ranging from Break Beat and Swing to Hip-Hop.
There are moody slow tracks and tracks that display fast manic outbursts of free and improvised jazz.
There are elements of quirkiness and sometimes almost humorous musical ideas that trickle through.

Question to a member of Closet Snare (He would like to remain anonymous.)

Q.“What is your view on music and especially Jazz music in South Africa?”

A.“Welcome to the future, and this is where people in South Africa need to challenge their ears and minds more actively. Jazz has become a bit of a swear word in South Africa of late, and when one hears the word jazz you think of the awful music they have on T.V. and many radio stations. We want to get together and make good music, that’s all, it’s quite simple.”

Musicians

Mr Sakitumi
Machines and keyboard

Sean is one of the most demanded drummers in Cape Town. This multi- talented instrumentalist plays bass guitar and drums equally well has worked and recorded with many well known South African musicians, including Johnny Clegg, Melanie Scholtz,Plush, Godessa and Max Normal. He won best drummer in Gauteng at the Old Mutual Jazz Competition in 1999.
He is currently working on his solo album and has toured to London with the well known Rodriguez.
Due to his incredible diversity he was asked to join the reggae outfit namely Teba on there tour of Finland in July of this year.
He is an absolute asset to any band and has no food allergies that I am aware of.

Mark Buchanan A.K.A. Mark Buchanan
Electric Guitar/Sampler/Fretless bass-9-String

Mark has worked with many South African musicians and groups like Paul Hamner, Marcus Wyatt, Just Ginger, and Max Normal.
He is in essence a composer and has a deep appreciation for jazz and blues music with an edge.
He has played at the North Sea Jazz Festival twice and toured with Max Normal to Belgium where they performed with Nellie Fatardo.
Mark studied jazz guitar with the great jazz guitarist Jonnie Fourie.
He uses the sampler in an inventive way, not only playing his guitar through it but also composing tracks with jazz beats and a variety of other interesting sounds, from piano to strange sounding orchestras and voices recorded from old movies on daytime T.V.
Live he plays a custom built 9 string guitar.(Five guitar strings and four fretless bass strings.)
He is currently performing strictly only with Chromoscience and focusing on the Closet Snare project.
His influences regarding guitar players include, David Fuzinsky, Vernon Reid, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Sonny Sharock, John Abercrombie and many many more.
He is also the manager and one should phone him regarding money and/or outstanding bar tabs.

Shane Cooper A.K.A. Card on Spokes
Electric Bass

Shane is a purveyor of Kiff vibes and phat basslines and is also known as “Card on Spokes’ when is is laying down big electronic beats the size of elephants. He has played with many of the great Jazz legends including Feya Faku and Zim Nguqwana and is really young for his age. He enjoys playing with his studio and is sympathetic to the plight of those who don’t know what to do when someone drops a drum and bass track.

Kesivan Naidoo

Drums
Kesivan began his professional career at age 14, in that year he toured Europe.
He is the founding member of Tribe and Golliwog and the ever dynamic Silent Revolution.
He has shared the stage with the likes of with Bheki Mseleku , Hotep Geleta, Selaelo Selota, and more and recorded with many leading South African artists including Zim Ngqwana, Miriam Makeba, Marcus Wyatt, Faya Faku, Jimmy Dludlu .
He has performed at many international festivals including North Sea Holland, Montréal Jazz Festival and the Chilemontana Jazz fest in Italy.
Kesivan was the winner of the Samro Overseas scholarship Competition, and has subsequently graduated from UCT. with B.Mus(Hon) .He is currently completing post grad. studies in eastern rhythms through Prof. Pt. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay. He has a great sounding ride cymbal and he really knows how to use it.

Lee Thomson -Trumpet

Lee is a well-known Cape Town based musician. He has worked with Springbok Nude Girls, Hog Hoggidy Hog and was part of Silent Revolution.
He regularly works with Golliwog and Mark Fransman’s superb Strait and Narro’outfit.
Lee’s influences include Miles Davis, Lee Morgan and Dave Douglas.
His approach to trumpet is somewhat unique in the fact that he is very versatile and uses digital and analogue effects that offer a wide tonal and sonic spectrum to his instrument of choice.
Lee has done a number of international gigs and has featured at every major South African Festival. He has a strong interest in jazz and over the last year has become quiet interested in electronic music. His playing is mature and has a distinctive feel about it. Something quite rare in a world where too much musical information often creates great players that easily get caught up trying to imitate others, as appose to innovating there own unique sound.
Lee is also able to have great conversation and is fairly philosophical at times.

Grrrl-Visual Artist

Our Visual Artist is an integral part of the Closet Snare experience and has performed internationally with the likes of interlope(france) and zong (reunion). She has also performed at various international and local festivals including pukkelpop in Belguim and festivale du sud in France.
She interprets the music live and inspires the music through her breathtaking and quirky visuals.
We aim to heighten peoples’ visionary and audio senses through this medium.
This also forms a large part of the bands lighting environment due to them being immersed in the visuals provided by our visual artist. See www.meme.name for more.
She is an idealist and a firm believer in world peace. The revolution will be projected.