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Celebrate Ancestor Radio CD release April 30posted 04/25/05
The members of Ancestor Radio – Diano Garcia, Marcos deFluri, Paula Geroux, Hawk Arps, and Colin Doherty – will be joined by special guests David Ravelli and Madrone Kubovcik. Twirl, formerly local performers, will be the opening act. Ancestor Radio plays original music fed by the polyrhythmic textures of West Africa. Guitarist, composer and arranger Marcos deFluri said, "We try to keep that element alive in creating quality canvases so vocals and instruments can improvise over the layers." He said the group tries to emulate the feeling of Caribbean, West African, funk, blues, and Latin genres. DeFluri, who has a master’s in applied music and composition and teaches guitar and theory, said he and Garcia have been spending up to 40% of their time in Seattle recording tracks for the CD at Tom Pollock’s Pine Ridge Studio. "Working with Tom clarified everything," deFluri said of the former Lopezian. Drummer and lyricist Garcia said computer technology makes recording a CD much easier for musicians living in the San Juans. “You can’t always just call some guy to come over and lay a horn track,” he said. He and deFluri have both studied African music extensively. "What I know is in the music – groove, funk, pan-African," Garcia said. "That’s what funk, R&B, and Hip-Hop come out of." Those rhythms, mixed with the experiences of a northwesterner raised in a suburban white culture, shape his music. "Every piece grooves," he said. "I’d much rather be playing music that people are dancing to. It’s the best way to feel the interaction between the musicians and the audience. It creates this wholeness." Garcia also teaches classes and private lessons. He started in music as a vocalist, studied theatre at Cornish and was an actor for five years. That work, he said, "Taught me a great deal about opening to creativity and using your life as your instrument." When he first played conga drums in 1994, he found he was a natural. "Drumming opened up things that singing alone never could have," he said. "And I already had the format to plug it into." He said the important, and sometimes difficult thing, is to take what you’ve learned and transform it into your own original work. "The Africans talk a lot about that – making it real in your culture." For info call Diano Garcia at 468-4639 or Marcos deFluri at 376-3061. Ancestor Radio the CD will be available in digital and hard copy at CDBaby.com after April 30, 2005. |
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