The son of a freedom fighter Journalist/Politician, at age six, Ahmed Gallab and his family fled to the United States from Sudan due to current President Omar El-Bashir's successful coup of the former democratic government. Ahmed learned the ropes by playing drums in smelly basements with hardcore bands: wear n' tear tours that have included having to converse with neo-Nazis at a camp fire, waking up on top of bags of trash and a near death cliff-hanging in a van full of amps. His debut solo record aptly entitled "Color Voice" is a hypnotic rhythm that ebbs and flows shoegaze, jazz and psychedelic themes: an ethereal soundscape full of delay and drones contrasted by cascading dueling drum kits.