Interview Session, Daru Jones The Silence Breaker

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Daru Jones also expresses his musicality through a band named THE RUFF PACK. It's a trio based in New York City and their genre is jazz/hip-hop. The Ruff Pack has done their tour andrecording to Europe and North America. 

Additionally, this band released an album titled 'With You' (2013). His music exploration didn't end there. When I asked if he was interested with new things, he explained that he's appealed with new challenges like film scoring, doing music projects from other countries or doing projects with other art forms such as paintings, art installations and graphic designs.

Daru Jones is also a producer and owner of RUSIC RECORDS LLC. His music characteristics is a unique fusion of beats involving live loops, jazz, gospel samples, and musicians who have soulful taste on the project. 

Daru Jones released his project catalogue which is classified as 'soul-hop' genre. This project collaborates with various rappers and vocalists such as Kissey Asplund, Jasiri X, Reggie B, Rena AB, Eagle Nebula and others. He had become producer of a number of original and remix songs from several artists such as Muhsinah,isHE, Jessie Boykins III, dan Kendra Ross. 

Hopefully we are motivated by Daru Jones, a drummer who can play various genre. To be able to play drum for various genre is a great pleasure, especially if one can spread positive messages to the world. That's the beauty of music. Their language has brought us together.

(Indonesia)

Daru Jones juga mengekspresikan musikalitasnya melalui band bentukannya THE RUFF PACK. Dengan format trio yang berbasis di New York City, dan bergenre jazz/hip-hop ini mereka melangsungkan tur dan rekaman ke Eropa dan Amerika Utara (North America). 

Band ini juga merilis album dengan judul WITH YOU (2013). Eksplorasi musikalnya tidak hanya berhenti disitu. Sewaktu saya tanyakan apakah ia tertarik pada hal-hal baru. Daru Jones mengatakan bahwa ia tertarik pada tantangan baru; scoring film, melakukan projek musisi dari negara lain, melakukan projek bersama bidang seni yang lain; painting, graphic design, instalasi seni. "Yes", katanya lagi.

Daru Jones juga merupakan produser, sekaligus pemilik label rekaman RUSIC RECORDS LLC. Pendekatan musiknya merupakan perpaduan unik- dengan pendekatan pembuatan beat yang melibatkan drum live loops, jazz, gospel samples, dan musisi yang mempunyai citarasa soulful untuk projeknya. 

Daru Jones juga merilis katalog projeknya yang diklasifikasikan sebagai genre "soul-hop", yang menggandeng rapper dan vokalis: Kissey Asplund, Jasiri X, Reggie B, Rena AB, Eagle Nebula dan lain sebagainya. Dirinya jga telah memproduseri sejumlah lagu asli dan lagu remix, dari beberapa artis; Muhsinah,isHE, Jessie Boykins III, dan Kendra Ross.