Gigmentia
A Drummer's Love Song to Rock Shows, Fatherhood, Writing, and the Passing of a Beloved Mom
9798988532699
296 pages
Will Dreamly Arts
Overview
GIGMENTIA is a reflection on the raw, challenging, and gritty vocation of a blue-collar musician living in the Pacific Northwest; and the varied adventures of a hard-working, day-in-day-out rock band. Introspective, insightful, and eloquently observed, Koep chronicles a summer season of fifty rock shows performed in small clubs, huge bars, and outdoor festival stages, to barns, backyards, and in the middle of the woods. Between gigs, Koep writes of sword fights on the lawn with his young son, the challenges of building a household, of world travel, pop music, poetry, and the fascinating pursuit of the writer's craft as he works toward completing his third novel. As the summer wanes and he balances the rigors and joys of live performance, promoting his books, and being a father and partner, his mother descends into dementia and forgets the world around her, including her son.
Author Bio
Michael B. Koep has been called an Inland Northwest Renaissance Man. He is the author of the Award Winning Newirth Mythology: The Invasion of Heaven (2013), Leaves of Fire (2015) and The Shape of Rain (2018). An avid world traveler, educator, accomplished visual artist and touring rock musician, Michael's spirit is imbued in the arts. He is a co-founder of a North Idaho fencing consortium, but he is best known as a drummer and lyricist for the progressive rock group KITE, as well as the percussionist for the variety power trio The RUB. He is a winner of a Costello Poetry Prize. He is also the author of GIGMENTIA: A Drummer's Love Song to Rock Shows, Fatherhood, Writing, and the Passing of a Beloved Mom (2023).
