I feel like a loser when I say I'm a drummer.

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.

I want to play about how I don't see enough.

To displace the rage, diffuse the urge, to throw it all away, and become your slave, I'll take you holiday,

let's go holiday

You're hearing Holiday by Jonah's Policewoman, featuring my guest Parker Kindred on drums.

A deceptively unassuming presence, Parker has a supernatural gift for musical intuition.

His intensely imaginative, lyrical sense of composition imbues the music Parker has a supernatural gift for musical intuition.

His intensely imaginative, lyrical sense of composition imbues the music with a deep, hypnotic subtlety.

Add an angelic singing voice to the mix, and the picture of an ideal collaborator emerges.

Aside from his work with Joan as policewoman, Parker has worked with artists including Luke Temple,

Amen Dunes, and Jeff Bugley.

I spoke to him last month at his apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

And now my conversation with Parker Kindred.

And your dad was a jazz saxophone player.

He still plays? He died a couple years. a musician. Yeah. Yeah, my dad's a jazz saxophone player.

He still plays?

He died a couple years ago, like 2016 August.

So, yeah.

Wow.

Fuck.

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