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David Leikam

San Francisco Bay Area-based composer-performer and bandleader. Being born with cerebral palsy has affected his body and speech, giving him a distinct view into his creative arts/music process and being largely a self-taught multi-instrumentalist.

You are the note(s) within music composition and those you select to compose/perform music with you, either live on stage or in the recording studio.

https://www.davidleikam.net/bio

Gear

NS Design CR6-string fretless Radius electric bass (NS Artist, NSixArtist, D'Addario NS710)
NS Design CR6-string fretless electric cello (NS Artist, NSixArtist, D'Addario NS510)
Moog Rogue analog synthesizer

https://www.davidleikam.net/gear

Tags

Man, I've heard most of your set [with zBug], it was fuckin' brilliant! What you do on your bass [NS Design CR6-string fretless electric cello] is amazing, ok it's amazing, REALLY amazing! Ah, so impressed... what your first song reminded me of was... [Airto Moreira's Nativity featuring Jaco Pastorius] ...one of the greatest things I've ever heard in my life.
—Paul L. Wexler (Warner Bros. Records, Island Records)

https://www.davidleikam.net/testimony