Carmine Appice 2005, he became an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization which provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in less privileged public schools throughout the USA. He has personally delivered instruments to children in the program and has also performed at benefit concerts for the organization and sits on its Honorary board of directors. In 2006, he formed the drum ensemble SLAMM in which Appice participates on drums playing alongside four young drummers. The show they put on has been described as "Stomp on steroids". The band filmed a promotional video for the Cable Network station
Siku (instrument) musicians were required to play the siku, each one taking one row of the instrument. One part of instrument is called "ira", another "arka". It is considered that spiritually "ira" corresponds to male principle and "arka" to female. When many musicians divide in two parts, first playing "ira" and second playing "arka", this gives Andean music a distinctive stereophonic sound. Hear . Now it is more common to see one musician playing both rows of the instrument together, but rustic ensembles retain traditional playing. The most widespread variety of siku, "siku ch'alla", contains 13 pipes (6 in "ira" and 7