RhythmSection

Description:

Screen Name:

RhythmSection

Sex:

F

Age:

79

Studio Musician:

Yes

Level Of Commitment:

Touring

Years Playing Music:

30

Gigs Played:

Over 100

Tend to Practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to Gig:

6-7 time(s) per week

Most available:

Nights

Meet Nila Minnerok and Clementine, an 11-year connected-at-the-hip rhythm section available for touring situations.

Nila and Clem's rhythmic conversation started in the New York City metal band BOTTOM. An 11-month, 320 shows tour and 8 years of 15-20 trips around the US, and travels through Europe honed their chops and developed an unbelievable intuition with each other, as well as a powerful stage presence that has served every project they've been in since.

They are currently the rhythm section for the San Francisco-based Led Zeppelin band, Zepparella.

Between the two of them, their musical tastes are incredibly diverse. On stage, they meet up with heavy-handed and melodic playing, grounded in heavy rock, funk and metal. While their aim is to affect the audience with the power a great rhythm section can convey, they have a strong sense of the Song, and play tastefully and with a desire to create a strong bed for the vocal melody to take center stage. Both songwriters in their own right, they have a melodic, pop sensibility that translates to their playing, and take direction from bandleaders easily and with the common goal to make the song what the leader envisions.

The girls are laid-back, low maintenance and with a constant professional yet fun attitude. Step up your tour with a rhythm section you can count on.

Influences:

Nila came to the US 12 years ago from a gray and chilly hamlet in Northern Germany.

Growing up playing in German metal bands, she eventually relocated to New York City. Shortly after her arrival, she began playing with Clementine in the stonerrock/metal band BOTTOM.

In 2000, the three women in the band gave up their apartments in New York and embarked on an 11-month tour around the US. In the following years the girls made it to Europe and the Warped Tour, and recorded 3 records for Mans Ruin Records and Smallstone Records.

When Nila and Clementine left BOTTOM in 2005, she joined Mudface, the project of Ted Aguilar from Death Angel. That same year, Clementine started Zepparella, and the San Francisco-based band continues to grow in reputation, at the same time that the two develop even further their connection as a rhythm section.

Nila also composes music and is studying tango for the stand-up bass.

Clementine:

In BOTTOM, Clementine developed a hard-hitting and emotional style of drumming.

After relocating to San Francisco, Clementine joined AC/DShe, one of the first all-female rock tributes. In her 3-year tenure as Phyllis Rudd, she applied a heavy athleticism to her playing, and the band became the highest-grossing Bay area band at the time.

In Zepparella, Clem channels Bonham's power, as well as playing to the obvious Motown influences in his playing. The girls take advantage of the improvisation opportunities the music provides, and highlights of a Zepparella show include improvised duets between Clem and Nila.

Francis Bakin is Clem's solo project, in which she steps out from behind the drumset to front the band as singer/songwriter/frontperson. The songs grew from electronic drumbeats she created in the studio, and live she plays a stand-up electronic drumkit while fronting the band.

Clementine has played on many recordings for artists in San Francisco, and has an active studio career.

Equipment List:

Nila plays Ampeg and Fodera.
Clem plays Ludwig and Paiste.

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