Timur Yusef on SoundBetter

Timur’s career so far has been wide ranging stylistically, but always anchored to the same core concepts for over 12+ years of professional experience playing live, in the recording studio or even in the rehearsal room: get the best possible performance of the ideal part for the music with an emphasis on groove, sound and musical sensibility.

“We share our music to express, not to impress."

From London, Timur graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2008, playing intensively in and out of school and around the East coast. He then spent over 12 years as a professional musician in New York City playing and recording with a huge variety of songwriters and bands, including: Grammy winning engineer/producers George Massenburg, Fab Dupont. Juno winner Jayme Stone. James Mullen (Nine inch Nails, Interpol), Will Knox - award winning singer/songwriter, Kyle James Hauser (Rapid Grass, Ayo Awosika), Jenn Bostic - award winning singer/songwriter & UK no.1 holder, Edu/Andrew Horowitz (John Legend, Janelle Monae), Bo Bruce (The Voice UK finalist), Michael J Schumacher - award winning avant-garde pianist and composer, Changing Modes - award winning NYC band and Morricone Youth, NYC premier live film score band.
Recorded at Flux Studios, The Cutting Room Studios, Avatar (now Powerstation), Legacy, Virtue & Vice, The Creamery, Seaside Lounge, Diapason Gallery, Swingfingers, Mix One.
Played at: Poisson Rouge, Hammerstein Ballroom, Webster Hall Studio, Rockwood 1, 2 & 3, Mercury Lounge, Bitter End, BAM, The Stone, Tavern On The Green - Central Park, Neuehouse NYC, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Sweetwater Performance Theatre.

Spotify playlist/drum credits: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jM2w5oLmyK02KLDFmqkzV

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