Deer Park drummer David Penna explores electronica

Remember drum and bass? Musicians are still working in that genre - or at least David Penna is. The Deer Park drummer's debut solo disc, "Failure to Obey a Traffic Control Device," harks back to that brief window in the mid-1990s when electronic music - with its ultramodern abstractions, lack of traditional instruments and fashionably faceless practitioners - threatened to obliterate old-fashioned rock and roll and become, as more egghead types predicted, "the new jazz."

Rafer Guzman

March 27, 2008