Discography

New CD releases with Atma Anur as a sideman drummer for 2020

Classic Atma Anur CD moment!

Here are the first few moments from this great track DREAM STATE, featured on the Tony MacAlpine CD Maximum Security, 1987

2018 brings new AMORIELLO CD with many great guests including Atma Anur

AMORIELLO is the project of guitarist and children’s picture book author, Thomas Amoriello, who has teamed up with a stellar roster of special guest musicians including former members of Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force, and the Michael Schenker Group to bring the 80’s inspired metal with a modern feel. The first AMORIELLO release on 7 inch vinyl with H42 Records of Hamburg, Germany features a power ballad called Flood with Swedish vocalist Goran Edman (Yngwie, John Norum), British bass legend Neil Murray formerly of Whitesnake and Black Sabbath, session ace drummer extraordinaire Atma Anur (Jason Becker, Cacophony, Richie Kotzen) and former Yngwie keyboardist Michael Troy. An epic guitar instrumental called Nightmusic MCX with former Ozzy, Ultimate Sin era bassist Phil Soussan, Canadian drum virtuoso Shane Gaalaas (Michael Schenker Group, Uli Jon Roth) rounded out by Michael Troy fills up the B-Side with an anthem-like, 80’s inspired metal. Amoriello’s books, A Journey to Guitarland with Maestro Armadillo and Ukulele Sam Strums in the Sand, have received favorable reviews in Guitar Player Magazine (USA), Rock Hard Magazine (Germany), Screamer Magazine (Los Angeles) and praise from guitar legends Brian May, Steve Hackett and Jennifer Batten.

FRIENDS OF JASON EP project

Join us in support of master musician Jason Becker. This new CD project is led by guitarist Peter Ema and vocalist Miko Thatcher, and includes many wonderful guests. Atma Anur, Michael T. Ross and Mike Le Pond are just a few of Jason's friends that came together to make this music. The CD is due out in Summer 2016, all proceeds go to Jason Becker and Family in support of his battle with ALS.

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Jason Becker's Not Dead Yet Festival

Six hours of guitar shredding from 12 of the world's finest guitar players. Backed up by bass players: Stu Hamm, Frank Hermanny and Barend Courbois, and featuring Atma Anur on drums!
November 13, 2011 Harleem, Holland

CD released summer, 2012! A "sample" of the epic 6 hour concert of wild guitar shredding!!

Visit this site to pledge your support
for JASON BECKER and get a copy
of the live CD
JASON BECKER'S NOT DEAD YET- LIVE IN HAARLEM!!

The guitar player's perspective, on Atma Anur

Tony MacAlpine talks about a great CD, collaborating with Atma Anur on drums...

Master of Paradise was a trip down a very different road for many people but not really myself. For quite some time, I had wanted to complete a vocal album on my own without the input of any other players or musicians. And without question, this was the record where all of that came together for me. I have been singing backup in so many situations before so it really was fairly natural for me to assume the lead vocal position. I suppose the one thing that was a strange twist for me was writing lyrics that I would ultimately end up singing myself.

Working with Atma Anur again - who is without question one of the most unique drummers I have heard in some time - was a great experience. He has the ability to play anything you put in front of him and still make it sound like a groove. See the thing is, many drummers are great.. until the click track comes on.. But Atma is a groove king! No click track worries! Prior to this, the last time we worked together was during the Maximum Security sessions when he split the drum duties with the great Deen Castronovo.

Larry Dennison, one of my very good friends and huge bass talent who I had the pleasure of working with during the Freedom to Fly and Madness sessions, always comes to every studio date with all the homework done and a smoking tone. It really makes the creative process flow much easier when there are no technical issues to try and overcome or circumvent. At that time I believe Larry was very busy with Ronnie James Dio so I guess I could say I was getting some positive Dio influences vicariously through Larry…haha just kidding. I toured with Larry quite a bit and have to say he is one of the most consistent players I have ever known.

The entire album was recorded in 2 months and mixed in 2 weeks. Again I recorded all guitars and bass at my studio in Los Angeles. You know, I have never mixed a CD on my own as I still think the music breathes better when it’s exposed to the creative control of a very talented mixer. Besides, I doubt I will ever have the patience for working with computers for such a long period of time.

After I have recorded the tracks it’s always great to take a long break away from it all and then come in and hear some rough mixes of where things are going. That’s one of my favorite things about the studio.

This record did suffer some Mastering problems in the first 500 or so copies. Apparently they were mastered at a lower level than normal. We are very sorry about that. But it was out of our control.

There was a very high energy level in the music during these sessions as we were all aware that it was a first for me to sing on a disc… maybe not the last! So there is a much tighter cohesive type of playing you must try to achieve when you are doing basic tracks for a vocal CD. I am very happy with the outcome of Master Of Paradise. I wish we had actually toured to support this album, but perhaps in the tour coming I can do couple of these numbers. We shall see.

Thanks for taking this trip back in time with us.

TONY MacALPINE

Doug Doppler talks about a great CD, and collaboration with Atma Anur on drums...

Nu Instrumetal is my debut release on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label, blending the tuned down intensity I love so much about today's bands with my passion for instrumental music.
This disc has its roots in a project that featured Stu Hamm on Bass and Atma Anur on drums. "Five Hi" was the only track that made it from those recordings, but I am very glad I chose to add it to the disc. Each time I hear that song I remember how much I enjoyed playing with such an amazing rhythm section. Stu has this amazing red 5 string bass that you can hear on that track, and Atma is really in his element playing in odd meters. Everything DHA (Doppler | Hamm | Anur) did was in odd meters, but with a modern sound and it really prepared me in so many ways to make Nu Instrumetal.

Producer Peter Karr is a very old friend of mine, and on a trip up to the Bay Area, he brought along some of the stuff he had been doing with loops and Reason. 10 seconds into the first song I was sold. The way the disc was recorded was nothing short of abstract if not bizarre. With the exception of Five Hi, every track started with me playing rhythm to a click track which I transferred from ProTools to my Roland VS1880. I then took the 1880 (in two sessions) over to the old rehearsal space and tracked Atma's drums. In case you didn't know, Atma made his name playing with some of the most brilliant instrumental guitarists out there including Richie Kotzen, Greg Howe, Jason Becker & Marty Friedman - just to name a few. Oh yeah, he was also in Journey for a while. In any case, he is brilliant in the studio and cut the first three tracks - Wicked, Grind, and Funky Armadillo in less than two hours once we had drum tones - that includes hearing the track, writing his parts and recording what were largely first takes with an occasional punch.
The mics were mainly Shure 57's and a Beta 52 on the kick. When it comes to getting drum tone in any situation, Atma is the man. I then took the drum tracks back to my studio and dumped them into ProTools and got to work replacing the scratch rhythm guitar tracks with double tracked parts done with one of my Ibanez S740 7-Strings through a Mesa-Boogie Road King Dual Rectifier. Keep in mind these songs had no melodies even up to the point of my keeper rhythm guitar parts, which is not how Ground Zero was done. In any case, once I had the rhythms, I went to L.A. and Pete fattened this up on the rhythm tracks, added the loops and sent me back to the Bay Area to track my melodies and solos. Mind you, we did not have a deal yet, so it was very much an act of faith.

I certainly hoped Steve was going to put the disc out on Favored Nations, but I had no assurances in that regard. Once I tracked wrote and tracked the melodies and cut the solos, I returned to L.A. and Pete and I mixed the first three in hopes of securing the infamous "record deal'. To be continued...

Doug Doppler

Featured CD work by Atma Anur:

Atma slamming his Legendary "American Rock Groove... With guitarist Josh Ramos

An awesome AOR CD, "Living In The Light" features the music of Composer/Guitar player Josh Ramos (Hardline, The Storm). This, and the powerful and exciting playing from Atma Anur, Michael T. Ross, Jamie Browne and singer Mark Weitz, make this a Melodic-Rock lover's Dream CD!

TELL ME WHY / Josh Ramos (Living in The Light)

Joop Wolters

Another amazing instrumental CD from virtuoso guitarist and composer Joop Wolters. Just released in Feb. 2011
Available at: http://www.amazon.com/False-Poetry-Joop-Wolters/dp/B004MFNE6G

get it...FALSE POETRY

Atma Anur's true GUITAR ADDICTION...

For the true guitar fan! a new CD release from GuitarEuroShop.com... GUITAR ADDICTION . Featuring a zillion or so awesome guitar players, bass players, keyboard players and Atma Anur on drums! (drummer Vncent Fabre also plays on this cd!)
just released and AVAILABLE NOW...june 21, 2011

Listen to clips of Atma's Guitar Addiction Vol. 1 tracks:

More music...with Atma Anur

Atma's take on the classic Billy Cobham composition Stratus, from the Bert Elliot CD
Asylum In Playland

Spot Light CDs...

An interesting company of musicians in a very interesting funky-fusion album, under the guidance of the Italian guitarist Steve Saluto. Some very important musicians comprise La Famiglia Superstar, with ex-Whitesnake, currently member of Thin Lizzy, Marco Mendoza on bass, XYZ vocalist Terry Ilous, who’s doing a great job, and Atmar Anur, "the Jimi Hendrix of the drums" according to Neal Schon, who’s played with Third Eye Blind, David Bowie, Richie Kotzen, Tony Macalpine, Gregg Allman, Cacophony, and Greg Howe.

Of course, the credits of all members are an undisputed proof of their worth, but usually in such projects, what really matters is the material. It wasn’t a few times in the past that the gathering of respected superstars didn’t result in a good album. Fortunately, in La Famiglia Superstar’s case the exact opposite applies.

Steve Saluto signs every composition on the album that gives the freedom to the other members to unravel their talent at will. As a matter of fact the style of the album is ideal to let the players free. But, since all four of them are great , and experienced, they know how to use their freedom wisely. Whatever is on the album doesn’t feel redundant, and it’s played with sense.Also, the totally different and much more relaxed version of Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” might look weird on your screen, but if you listen to it, you will decide that it sounds great.

Yiannis Dolas

http://www.myspace.com/lafamigliasuperstar

Defox Records releases MAD FOR IT world wide!

DEFOX RECORDS & HEART OF STEEL RECORDS are proud to announce the Record Deal with Italian guitar wizard LUCA ZAMBERLIN.

The Luca Zamberlin featuring Atma Anur (David Bowie, Journey, Joe Satriani, Richie Kotzen, Tony MacAlpine, Greg Howe…) instrumental solo album “Mad for it” is released with nine songs, two written by Shaun Baxter, with Atma Anur on drums and percussion, Piero Trevisan on bass, Jurj Luisetto on cello and guitarist Steve Saluto guesting on one track.
The work is produced and mastered by Carlo Zundo (who also plays guitar and bass on it), mixed by Claudio Zambenedetti at ImputLevel studios.
The digital album will be available in mid March through Defox Records.

http://www.rockitaly.com/heartofsteel/home.htm

DISCOGRAPHY (Incomplete) over 150 CDs/EPs... and counting!

CLASSIC Atma Anur (guitar) releases...

Some Releases 1987 to 2020

"Something To Say"...Richie Kotzen

Have a look and a listen to a classic track from this great CD with Atma Anur on drums!

Reviews in the press on Atma Anur and his work with two very diverse groups...

Eric Clapton visits The Slackjaw Blues Band at Bourbon Street bar., L.A.

David Black,
the lead singer-guitarist of the Slackjaw Blues Band, got a little excited when he saw Eric Clapton in the audience at one of his band's gigs.

It seems that one night last year, while the band was performing its regular open-air gig at Bourbon Street on Melrose Avenue, Eric Clapton drove up in his Mercedes convertible, sat down at a table and stayed awhile.

Black says he was unnerved a bit when he realized he was playing guitar licks that were variations on ones he "stole" from Clapton records years before, when Black was a kid just learning to play. Clapton later shook hands with the guys and told them he liked the band.

"I figured if he stayed and listened for awhile, I feel the action speaks louder than words," Black says.

It might have simply been a case of deja vu all over again for Clapton. The music of Slackjaw, as the band is known when they play straight rock clubs, is evocative of Clapton's 1960s band, Cream. Their music is blues-based but definitely has a '90s rock crispness.

"Just like Clapton and Cream took the old stuff and rocked it, we're giving it a kind of a left turn," says Slackjaw bassist Marc Doten. "We're doing a very updated, very modern version of the blues."

Slackjaw may be the only local blues band also to be featured on alternative rock station KROQ.

Besides Doten and Black, the band has Atma Anur on drums and Zollie Polk on harmonica. Black and Anur, who both grew up in Manhattan, have been working together for years. Polk is originally from Louisiana, and Doten grew up in some equally exotic place--somewhere called Tarzana.

"He's still making up for it by moving to Silver Lake," Black says.

The band has been together for about a year. The band's first CD, "Knuckle Down," should be available sometime later this month. Everybody in the band sings, but Black estimates that he does 95% of the lead vocals.

"They're great backup vocalists," he says. "The further they back up, the better they sound."

September 04, 1997 |JAMES E. FOWLER | TIMES STAFF WRITER

Copyright 2011 Los Angeles Times

LINDSEY BOULLT - "Composition"

First picking up the guitar at 21 years old, Lindsey Boullt received his music degree three and a half years later and then graduated with honors from the Guitar Institute of Technology in Los Angeles at the age of 27. Now an established guitarist, composer and instructor in San Francisco and working with some of the finest players in the world, Lindsey Boullt teaches at the renowned Guitar Institute and has just released the 10-song original work, June 2007.
These compositions are a continuing demonstration of Lindsey’s ability to musically communicate how culture, chaos, and the reverence for odd time can be organized into precision and power.
Lindsey Boullt is more than a guitar player, he can be considered as a wizard on the guitar. His compositions are extremely epic and strong, which sometimes sound like Progressive Rock and Metal adding touchs of symphonism from of 70’s artists, and mailing Jazz Rock Fusion. We can expect a perfect combination of musical elements rarely found today.

All songs were composed with a vast instrumental exploration, featuring a lot of symphonic guitar solos, very well played by Lindsey Boullt, combining the diverse musical experience with the driving bass of Stu Hamm and Jon Herrera, the thundering toms of drummer Atma Anur, the electric violin by Jerry Goodman, complemented by magical keyboards sounds from Derek Sherinian.
The music on this album features an amazing collection of instrumental arrangments that are 'heady' enough for any Progressive Rock/Jazz Fusion afficionado. Let´s put together the power of Prog Metal from "Dream Theater", the rick Jazz Fusion texture from "Mahavishnu Orchestra" ("Birds of Fire, Inner Mounting Flame and Apocalypse), the Progressive Rock/Fusion style from "Jean Luc Ponty" and "Liquid Tension Experiment" and some slices from "Led Zeppelin", then we will have Lindsey Boullt music. "Composition" album was released 2007, the CD includes 10 tracks.
Engineered by Chris Manning (Santana, Metallica). The CD is also available to download from iTunes. A special and particular attention to and my favourite songs are: "Page Revisited", "Moving Panvishnu", "Call For Peace", "Bravo Davo De La Torre", "Aurora´s Aura", "Taste The Hate" and "Cleopatra's Third Eye". Most of the CD is comprised of instrumental tracks with the exception of one vocal track. The musicians on this project are: Lindsey Boullt - Electric, Acoustic & 12 String Guitars, Mandolin, Synth, Jerry Goodman - Violin (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Dixie Dregs), Derek Sherinian - Keyboards (Dream Theater, KISS, Malmsteen, Billy Idol, Planet X), Stu Hamm - Bass (Bx3, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani), Atma Anur - Drums (Cacophony, Tony MacAlpine, Richie Kotzen, Journey), Jeremy Colson - Drums (Steve Vai, G3, Marty Friedman), Jon Herrera - Bass (Senior Editor of Bass Player Magazine; Zigaboo Modeliste, Oz Noy), Sukhawat Ali Khan - Vocals (A member of the Ustad Salamat Ali Khan family representing a 500-year lineage of Pakastani musicians), Peter Van Gelder - Sitar (Zakir Hussain, Chitresh Das, Lalgudi Krishnan) and Mingo Lewis - Percussion (Al Di Meola, Return to Forever, John Mclaughlin, Chick Corea, Miles Davis). Brilliant and indispensable work, highly recommendable...

(Comments by Carlos Vaz) . 09/15/2007...please visit LINDSEY BOULLT HOME PAGE