Someone who plays guitar is a guitarist, right? And someone who plays marimba is a marimbist. Anyway, Cockroach has a favourite marimbist – Jane Boxall. A sometime indie-rock drummer and martial arts enthusiast, British-born Boxall moved to the States a few years back to study at the University of Illinois. She got married, moved to Vermont, and last year she released an album, Spherical Music.
As Jane is endlessly explaining with infinite patience, the marimba is a tuned percussion instrument. It has keys like a piano and you hit them with things called mallets. It’s a close relative of both the xylophone and the vibraphone, but all you really need to know is that the marimba produces beautiful sounds. And even if you can’t appreciate Jane’s artistry you can simply groove on her super-trancey music.
We’ve just missed Jane’s UK tour but her new Pyramid EP provides some consolation.
Jane has “lived in five places in the last 12 months”, and currently describes herself as “jetlagged to the point of insanity”.
Get some marimba in your life at www.myspace.com/janeboxallmarimba
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