Marcel Rodeka is a professional drummer, songwriter and drum teacher with over five decades of experience in music.<\/p>\n
He first emerged in the 1970's with popular New Zealand band Mother Goose before building a long career across New Zealand and Australia as a live performer and recording musician.<\/p>\n
Today, Marcel is the drummer for iconic Dunedin band Oxo Cubans (NZ) and continues to work across a wide range of live shows and studio projects.<\/p>\n
In 2025, he released his first solo EP, The Art of Not Looking Back<\/em>, an instrumental, atmospheric collection that marked a new creative chapter beyond the drum kit.<\/p>\n Marcel is now focused on writing and recording song-based material with melody and vocals, bringing together a lifetime of rhythm, feel and storytelling into his next body of work. His recent release, Asian Paradise<\/em> - a reimagined cover of the Sharon O\u2019Neill classic - reflects this evolving direction and his love of song, atmosphere and emotional connection.<\/p>\n","band_members":"","featured_image":{"width":150,"height":150,"file":"artists\/photo-368-scaled.jpg","filesize":333502,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"photo-368-300x200.jpg","width":300,"height":200,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":25512,"url":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/artists\/photo-368-300x200.jpg"},"large":{"file":"photo-368-1024x683.jpg","width":1024,"height":683,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":77681,"url":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/artists\/photo-368-1024x683.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"photo-368-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":21744,"url":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/artists\/photo-368-150x150.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"photo-368-768x512.jpg","width":768,"height":512,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":54885,"url":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/artists\/photo-368-768x512.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"photo-368-1536x1024.jpg","width":1536,"height":1024,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":140051,"url":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/artists\/photo-368-1536x1024.jpg"},"2048x2048":{"file":"photo-368-2048x1365.jpg","width":2048,"height":1365,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":226767,"url":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/artists\/photo-368-2048x1365.jpg"},"crp_thumbnail":{"file":"photo-368-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":21744,"url":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/artists\/photo-368-150x150.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"","camera":"ILCE-7RM5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1712269962","copyright":"","focal_length":"33","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.005","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]},"original_image":"photo-368.jpg","ID":"273095","name":"photo-368-scaled.jpg","path":"\/home\/muzicnz\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/artists\/photo-368-scaled.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/artists\/photo-368-150x150.jpg","full_url":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/artists\/photo-368-scaled.jpg","title":"photo","caption":"","description":"","alt":"Photo","srcset":false},"genre":[{"term_id":28,"name":"Pop Rock","slug":"pop-rock","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":28,"taxonomy":"genre","description":"Pop rock blends catchy pop melodies with rock's energetic guitar riffs and driving rhythms. It's mainstream, radio-friendly, and appeals to a wide audience.","parent":0,"count":323,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"location":{"term_id":40,"name":"Dunedin \/ \u014ctepoti","slug":"dunedin","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":40,"taxonomy":"location","description":"","parent":0,"count":196,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},"linked_artists":[],"social_links":{"website":"https:\/\/www.marcelrodeka.com","youtube":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@marcelrodeka","bandcamp":"https:\/\/marceljrodeka.bandcamp.com\/","instagram":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marcelrodeka\/"},"contact":[{"contact_name":"Marcel Rodeka","contact_email":"info@marcelrodeka.com"}],"notes":"","artists-to-releases_to":["273097"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/273094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/273094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273096,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/273094\/revisions\/273096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=273094"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzic.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=273094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}