The live line-up of Solace is comprised of writer, producer and percussionist Jeremiah Soto, Tim Rayborn, Dave Hall, and Susie Hall. Ruben van Rompaey will join Solace Live as special guest on selected tour dates. You can find them all here.

Solace is the name of Jeremiah M. Soto\'s project, offering classical Middle Eastern music with excursions into electronica. Solace main man Jeremiah Soto says:

\"For me, rhythm is the most important factor behind Middle Eastern Dance Music. It is the heartbeat of the music and the dance. That is why the rhythms in Solace\'s arrangements are so prominent and the music is brooding and deep. All of these elements combined can make for a powerful song that conveys emotion and a sense of relationship for the individual listener.\"

Judge for your self and listen to several Solace songs here.

After having obtained his Master Degree (cum laude) in Drums and Percussion, Ruben van Rompaey traveled to Istanbul, Turkey, where he lived for a while and was classically trained by the well-known percussion master Alpay Dinletir.

He was influenced by the playing of major Turkish percussionists like Yasar Akpençe and Mehmet Akatay. Nowadays Ruben van Rompaey is very active as a professional drums and percussion artist and is working as a teacher at the departments of Jazz and World Music of the Rotterdam Conservatory, The Netherlands.

Ruben van Rompaey is currently providing series of lessons Turkish drums for Dutch drum magazine Slagwerkkrant.