With the responsibility, you know, sometimes it's hard to just feel that sense of adventure that allows that purity to thrive.

Oh! This is Joe Wong.

Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.

I want to play something for you. You're hearing as within by my guest Orfeo McCord.

Born into a bohemian family, Orfeo was raised in California, and eventually studied percussion in Ghana, Mali,

Cuba, Morocco, and at Berkeley College in Boston. Orfeo's diverse body of work comprises

recordings with Markey Smith in the fall, Fools Gold, and Casmecombs. Since 2007, he's been a member

of Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros.

Orfeo recently released his first solo album, Recovery In Hale, featuring meditative,

electronically manipulated marimba pieces.

We recorded this conversation on a boat off the coast of Southern California.

And now my conversation with Orfeo McCord.

I grew up mostly in California.

And your dad went to mime school, right?

My dad did go...

My dad studied with a French mime named Jean-Louis Barreau.

Like the most famous mime ever.

Kind of the most famous mime ever, yeah.

And my dad was his protege in Paris when he was in his 20s.

And he was a part of kind of the whole mime troop in San Francisco and grew up in Berkeley, California.

So he was a part of the whole...

Like the merry prankster scene?

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