In all the excitement of the past week, I’m sorry that I forgot to celebrate a birthday – Alfred Kamajian had drummed w ilyAIMY through several albums & he was formative in how we arranged many songs, practiced & worked together as a band. His death in 2018 was a tragic loss to the arts community of Baltimore and beyond – and his birthday was the day after my dad’s (Alfred would’ve been a remarkably well-preserved 64 on August 12th). I Love that his obituary had noted that he was pre-deceased by his “beloved dog, Tristan” – because honestly, in all things with Alfred, his dog came first.
Though you might’ve heard him on our Myxomatosis albums and at Paloma’s or the Vault or any number of our LOUDEST shows in the first decade of the new millennium – many more knew him as a visual artist and his PROUDEST moment was when he revealed, glowingly, that he’d landed a number of Batman covers!Happy belated birthday Alfred. We Love you and we miss you.