Bio
Davu Seru is an improvising musician, composer and scholar based in Saint Paul, known mainly for his work on drums. Since 1998 he has performed as a drummer and composer across the United States and France. He has received the McKnight Composer Award and a Jerome Sound Artist/Composer Fellowship, and has had commissions from the Walker Art Center. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).
Over more than 20 years he has played with artists including Milo Fine, Douglas R. Ewart, Evan Parker, Nicole Mitchell Gantt, Tony Hymas, Catherine Delaunay, Rafael Toral and Nathan Hanson. In 2016 he formed No Territory Band to engage with composers who shaped him, among them Anthony Braxton, Andrew Hill and George Russell. He is also a published author.
On the Anthrophonic album Ghost Dance, he plays drums.