Amen to that / give the drummer some / da funk pointilliste

Three pieces very much worth reading: 1/ James Parker with a short piece at the Atlantic on the mystery of drumming and its relationship to Time and Flow (spinning off a book that also sounds worth reading: John Lingan’s Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in Fifteen Drummers 2/ Ethan Hein blogging about the Amen Break with an inventory of sampled examples of use. 3/ Nick Coleman substacking…