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These are everyday questions that should be really fundamental to how you live your life and how you relate. If you think of a person as this spirit that lives inside a brain, and the rest of the world is just matter, and humans and animals are completely different — versus thinking of the world as really being quite interconnected and thinking of the mind as being a product of cells working together, the difference between human and animals really not being that great — just seeing some of the similarities between things and connections between things, these are various ways that you can look at the world. And there are many other ways of looking at the world. There are so many different ways that you can choose to organize the universe in your head, and these are fundamental questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There probably aren’t any answers, but asking the questions is very important. 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We did a half-hour emergency rehearsal backstage, and pulled out whatever songs we thought would work acoustically. Some of them didn’t work so well, but most of them worked really well, and we got a really good response. I guess people felt that they were part of this thing, and we needed everybody together to make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a really rewarding experience, even though it was really stressful. We ended up doing three shows pretty much all-acoustic. It was cool, you know? I think that has added to what we’re doing live now. Some of the things we’ve added to the regular show. I think we all came out of it more confident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bands tend to play with the arrangements for a live show, and do various things to add a different direction than the record. What can we expect to be different from Fanfarlo’s albums in your live show?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We always play around with our arrangements. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Wednesday, March 26, London’s Fanfarlo will come across the pond, and the country, to take the stage at Great American Music Hall. Fanfarlo’s music features a multi-faceted lushness — a complex array of textures produced from a combination of classical and cutting edge instruments. The band’s lush musical landscapes provide the foundation for catchy pop songs that take on much more meaningful subject matter than most American music fans are accustomed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not often that Fanfarlo makes its way to the U.S. to tour, much less to the West Coast, so Bay Area fans should definitely take advantage. The band will surely be focusing on cuts from its latest effort, \u003ci>Let’s Go Extinct\u003c/i>. The new album is a sweeping set of songs, centering on the heavy idea of life’s purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frontman Simon Balthazar and his bandmates don’t take this study too seriously, though. The record maintains a lighthearted attitude, asking heavy questions without presuming to have a definitive answer to any of them. Catchy hooks and hip-moving rhythms shine through arrangements that become clearer and more interesting with each subsequent listen. I expect a captivating and multi-layered performance from these Brits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke to Simon about the process of creating the new record, what we can expect from Fanfarlo live, and a recent tour crisis that ended with a silver lining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10134886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/FanfarloJohnBest2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/FanfarloJohnBest2.jpg\" alt=\"Fanfarlo\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10134886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/FanfarloJohnBest2.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/FanfarloJohnBest2-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/FanfarloJohnBest2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: John Best \u003ccite>( John Best)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Can you tell me a little about the studio in Wales where you guys recorded \u003ci>Let’s Go Extinct\u003c/i>?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basically, the recording of this record was split up over two locations. We spent some time with \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordproduction.com/david-wrench-record-producer640.html\">David Wrench\u003c/a>, who’s been co-producing the record with us, in a really fantastic studio in Wales. It’s a bit of a dying breed. It’s one of these old-school studios where you live there, and you record and you come back with your album. You know, it’s a residential studio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There aren’t many of them around anymore, but this is one of them. It’s old, it’s falling apart a little bit, but it’s an amazing spot to record in. It’s on the outskirts of this little Welsh village. There are old lake quarries around, so there’s this strange, black Martian landscape, and a big green-blue crater lake, and all these windy wooden passes. So it’s a very strange environment, and the whole studio is painted in these kind of paschal colors. It’s very dark and full of stuffed animals and old gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was where we made the skeleton for the record. David [Wrench] has amazing ears and really, really good taste in music. So we had him around to help us. Our usual problem is that we have too many ideas. So he helped us commit and just get some good sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So once we had the ball rolling that way, and had some drums and that sort of thing, we went to another spot — also in Wales — which is this house that a friend had gotten a hold of recently and was doing up. It had been empty for 20 years. The place was a bit of a construction site, really. It was very dusty, and it was in the winter, and it didn’t really have any proper heating. It had a fireplace and a couple of old radiators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10134888\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/fanfarlo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/fanfarlo.jpg\" alt=\"Fanfarlo\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10134888\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/fanfarlo.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/fanfarlo-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/fanfarlo-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Helen Woods \u003ccite>(Photo: Helen Woods)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So you guys were really roughing it, huh?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(laughs) Sort of… you know, we still had electricity and a fully equipped kitchen. So that was all right. But it was winter outside, and it was pretty miserable and raining. I literally didn’t leave that house for 10 days. We built a temporary studio. The control room was the living room with a fireplace where we’d all just sit around and drink wine. Then we had a separate room, which was the “live” room. I guess all this went into creating a little bubble for us. We were in our own little world, so we could just form a hive mind and not really think about the rest of the world for a little while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living together in this way, and having big family meals together, and listening to music and making music — that’s kind of how we did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So would you say that these two locations have an imprint on the record?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They do in the sense that, like I said, it was our way of creating an environment where we could just let it happen. That’s the hard thing when you work as a group. You have to stop worrying about what other people think and become a unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I guess it was quite a meditative environment, as well. This is a record full of thoughts about what is it to be human. Where did we come from? What really is a mind and a consciousness in ourselves? These are quite fundamental questions, really. So we were playing with these ideas. Obviously, a lot of the songs were already written, but being in this environment helped us to conclude them and let the album be a fully formed, cohesive thing.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/q8xHq1kdxes'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/q8xHq1kdxes'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>I wanted to ask you about the subject matter of the record. Obviously these are very deep, existential questions for us all. What specifically inspired you guys to take that idea and run with it?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I guess this is the thing — at least speaking for myself, and probably for the others as well. To me, these are not academic questions. These are everyday questions that should be really fundamental to how you live your life and how you relate. If you think of a person as this spirit that lives inside a brain, and the rest of the world is just matter, and humans and animals are completely different — versus thinking of the world as really being quite interconnected and thinking of the mind as being a product of cells working together, the difference between human and animals really not being that great — just seeing some of the similarities between things and connections between things, these are various ways that you can look at the world. And there are many other ways of looking at the world. There are so many different ways that you can choose to organize the universe in your head, and these are fundamental questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There probably aren’t any answers, but asking the questions is very important. To me, it makes a lot of sense to use pop music — there’s no reason that pop music can’t be part of the discussion, if that makes sense. I’d hate for anyone to think that this is any sort of hyperbolic attempt at being “deep.” This is playful. This is “serious play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day this is what philosophy is. It’s just a great way to think about everything you do. I want everything to be “serious play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do you think listeners have focused too specifically on the subject matter and the deep questions that are being asked, as opposed to just letting the music play, and listening, and enjoying it?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard for me to say, isn’t it? I’d like to think that people get that, on one level, it’s nice music. It’s melodies, and it can just be a soundtrack to going about your life, if you want. Or you can think about some of the questions that hopefully we manage to ask, but I’m happy for people to take away whatever they want from this record. It’s fun music, and it should be beautiful and sad and uplifting and emotional — just like a soundtrack of your life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You guys have mentioned that this record feels free of expectation. What sort of expectations have you had to deal with?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our own ones, mainly. It was quite stressful making the second record, I guess just because a second record is stressful to make. We made the first record, and it did quite well, and we toured for two or three years really. Then, we got to a point where we were just dying to get off the road and make a record. We all had ideas — we should be doing something different on this record, we should be doing something new, but what should that be? We had a producer, and he had some ideas, and we had some ideas. So there was a lot of tension. Nothing that was threatening to ruin everything, but it was tough — it \u003ci>is\u003c/i> tough to make a second record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love a lot of the stuff on that second record, and I think some of those songs came out really well. But for me, it was a bit of a stressful time. And now, when we’re making a third record, the main thing is that wow, we’re actually making a third record! We’re having a proper lifespan of a band. This is great; this is really growing into something. We just felt free to let whatever happened happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We just got to the point where we felt that we’d been through a lot together, and we’d had so many good and bad things happen, and such a life together as a band. Anything that happens now is just an extra. Hopefully we get to keep making records, but we’re just so proud of everything that we’ve done that we didn’t feel like anything was on the line. In that sense, we could just do what we felt like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the first and second records were released on a major label, and this one we’re self-releasing. So go-figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10134889\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/FanfarloJohnBestgene.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/FanfarloJohnBestgene.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: John Best\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10134889\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/FanfarloJohnBestgene.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/FanfarloJohnBestgene-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/FanfarloJohnBestgene-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: John Best \u003ccite>(Photo: John Best)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You guys tend to use a lot of classical instruments — you’ve got a lot of strings and you’ve got a lot of brass, and then you have these electronic textures and synthesizers going on. From the beginning, did you guys say, “We’re Fanfarlo and this is what we’re going to do?” Or did it organically grow into what it is now?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It definitely wasn’t very conscious. It wasn’t strategically thought out. I think when we make records we have a kid-in-a-candy store approach. We really love the process of recording and seeing it come together, and we love drawing on influences from the music we love and the instruments we know how to play ourselves, and maybe some of those that we’ve just learned to play. It ends up that way because we’re just so excited to get all these elements into the mix of things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I guess that’s why our records have always been — there’s a lot going on. I think that may be our biggest problem. We have too many ideas and we want to try too many things. Everything becomes quite layered and eclectic. The hardest thing would be for us to do a really straight-up record with very minimal instrumentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Well there’s your idea for the fourth record.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe! You have to challenge yourself. So maybe that’s the next thing we’ll do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>For this tour, are you planning anything different from what you’ve done in the past? Any new production aspects, cool new technologies, anything like that?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re talking about keeping it simple. I think, in a way, we feel really excited about what’s going on musically on stage at the moment. We got a new a drummer [Valentina Magaletti], and she’s really on it — she’s super dynamic. We all feel similarly to when we were making the record. We just feel so good about what we’re playing and so excited to be up there and playing new songs. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003ch4>Listen to \u003ci>The Bay Bridged\u003c/i> mix of highlights from the 2014 South by Southwest festival, featuring: Sylvan Esso, Future Islands, Jungle, Withered Hand, and more:\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/SXSW_2014_Mix.mp3\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Thousands of bands converged in Austin last week, performing all over the city as part of \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://sxsw.com/\">South by Southwest 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>. Some might find the prospect of seeing music at every waking hour exhausting, but there’s something surprisingly energizing about the mass convergence of creative talent in Austin each year. SXSW remains one of the best places to discover new bands, a remarkable, unique opportunity to watch, discover, be disappointed by, and celebrate a ton of indie music’s most buzzed-about (and completely unknown) artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cannot be easy to be a band at SXSW. Best case scenario, a group is playing a dozen or more shows over the course of the week, frequently under less than optimal conditions, without adequate sound checks, and to audiences that are somewhere between hungover and drunk and always distracted by their phones. It’s unreasonable to expect too much from a SXSW performer, which makes it a welcome surprise when a band rises above “just okay” and blows you away. 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The DC trio’s throwback glam pop stood out both times we saw them; it’s no surprise that Merge scooped them up for a debut album later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MasYsa\">Mas Ysa\u003c/a> — “Why”\u003cbr>\nThomas Arsenault cannot be accused of sleepwalking through his live appearances as Mas Ysa. Surrounded by electronic hardware in his Mohawk set on Friday, Arsenault furiously pressed buttons and adjusted settings, periodically stopping to sing into the microphone that was otherwise draped around his neck. That energy paid off, adding another layer of intensity to his already emotionally-charged and immaculately crafted electronic pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jungle4eva\">Jungle\u003c/a> — “Lucky I Got What I Want”\u003cbr>\nSeeing Jungle twice in one day was perhaps the best decision we made at South By last week. The funky pop songs coming from the UK septet felt a little too mellow and ethereal from a balcony vantage point at the Mohawk, but the band was absolutely commanding later that night at the Hype Hotel. For a group that clearly cares about sonic precision — how often do you see singers using windscreens in live shows? — that second set was fully immersive and stunning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/quiltmusic\">Quilt\u003c/a> — “Tie up the Tides”\u003cbr>\nQuilt’s performance at SXSW on Saturday at Red 7 was a welcome respite from the rain outside, with majestic vocal harmonies and textured psych that was alternately pastoral and rocking. It was gorgeous-sounding stuff that begs one to revisit this year’s \u003cem>Held in Splendor\u003c/em>, out on Mexican Summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/protomartyr\">Protomartyr\u003c/a> — “Scum, Rise!”\u003cbr>\nProtomartyr was the first band we saw at South by Southwest, and their inclusion here should speak to the big impression they made at Pitchfork’s French Legation Museum day party. The Detroit band tonally lands somewhere between punk’s sneering urgency and post-punk’s despondent brooding, but with songs that carry a surprising amount of melody. \u003cem>Under Color of Official Right\u003c/em>, the group’s second album, arrives in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/wearebigups\">Big Ups\u003c/a> — “Goes Black”\u003cbr>\nBrooklyn’s Big Ups periodically feel like a throwback to ’80s punk and post-punk bands, although it never feels like they’re merely aping any one band in particular. It’s an impressive feat that’s notable mostly in an academic context; live, the only priority is moving along to the group’s intense, blunt songs, recently captured on the \u003cem>Eighteen Hours of Static\u003c/em> LP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/deadgaze\">Dead Gaze\u003c/a> — “Rowdy Jungle”\u003cbr>\nWho knew that some of the best power pop around was coming from Mississippi? Cole Furlow’s Dead Gaze started as a lower fidelity solo project, but his five-piece band wasn’t hiding any of its big hooks at Holy Mountain last Thursday. The group drew from \u003cem>Brain Holiday\u003c/em>, a big, anthem-packed record that flew far too under the radar last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SylvanEsso\">Sylvan Esso\u003c/a> — “Hey Mami”\u003cbr>\nLive sets by electronic pop artists often feel more like tenuous attempts to replicate studio productions than real concerts. Fortunately, North Carolina duo Sylvan Esso impressed us with more energy and charisma than scores of rock bands. Their self-titled debut LP arrives in May, and a recently announced set of dates with tUnE-yArDs sounds like a can’t-miss pairing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Future-Islands/161555136568\">Future Islands\u003c/a> — “Cotton Flower”\u003cbr>\nFuture Islands had already built a strong cult following over the years, before the band went viral with an appearance on \u003cem>The Late Show with David Letterman\u003c/em> in support of \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em>. Samuel Herring is compelling as both a crooner and a growler, and the band’s moody, intense songs are incredibly catchy; early reviews of \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> suggest that the new LP will elevate the band into the stratosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/tonymolina650\">Tony Molina\u003c/a> — “Change My Ways”\u003cbr>\nSF’s Tony Molina and his band powered through a blistering set at Maggie Mae’s on Wednesday night, sparing nary a second in a run of heavy, brief pop anthems from the recently-reissued and thoroughly terrific \u003cem>Dissed and Dismissed\u003c/em>, out now on Slumberland Records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guerilla-Toss/294357483907927\">Guerilla Toss\u003c/a> — “Trash Bed”\u003cbr>\nFrenetic barely begins to describe Boston’s Guerilla Toss, who performed to and among an energized crowd at the Longbranch Inn on Friday night. The band makes a hell of a noisy racket, abrasive and funky in the vein of no wave, with a propulsive and headstrong drive.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The Detroit band tonally lands somewhere between punk’s sneering urgency and post-punk’s despondent brooding, but with songs that carry a surprising amount of melody. \u003cem>Under Color of Official Right\u003c/em>, the group’s second album, arrives in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/wearebigups\">Big Ups\u003c/a> — “Goes Black”\u003cbr>\nBrooklyn’s Big Ups periodically feel like a throwback to ’80s punk and post-punk bands, although it never feels like they’re merely aping any one band in particular. It’s an impressive feat that’s notable mostly in an academic context; live, the only priority is moving along to the group’s intense, blunt songs, recently captured on the \u003cem>Eighteen Hours of Static\u003c/em> LP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/deadgaze\">Dead Gaze\u003c/a> — “Rowdy Jungle”\u003cbr>\nWho knew that some of the best power pop around was coming from Mississippi? 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Samuel Herring is compelling as both a crooner and a growler, and the band’s moody, intense songs are incredibly catchy; early reviews of \u003cem>Singles\u003c/em> suggest that the new LP will elevate the band into the stratosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/tonymolina650\">Tony Molina\u003c/a> — “Change My Ways”\u003cbr>\nSF’s Tony Molina and his band powered through a blistering set at Maggie Mae’s on Wednesday night, sparing nary a second in a run of heavy, brief pop anthems from the recently-reissued and thoroughly terrific \u003cem>Dissed and Dismissed\u003c/em>, out now on Slumberland Records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As an aspiring young African-American opera singer at the start of his career, Oakland bass Anthony Russell made a conscious decision to avoid interpreting songs inextricably linked to black artists. “I got asked are you going to sing ‘Ol’ Man River’ so many times,” Russell says. “I just got up and sang Verdi to you, why are you asking me about ‘Ol’ Man River?’ I wanted to frustrate people’s desire that I present the black experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, Russell’s singular creative journey has led him to interpret Negro spirituals, though the experience he’s representing is entirely his own. As a convert to Judaism, he’s discovered soul-deep connections between 19th-century black music, Yiddish art songs and cantorial music. He explores those connections in the show \u003ci>Convergence\u003c/i>, a collaboration with the celebrated klezmer trio Veretski Pass at the JCC East Bay in Berkeley on Sunday as part of the Jewish Music Festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opening Thursday with a performance at Yoshi’s San Francisco by \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/music/article.jsp?essid=134914\">Israeli rock star Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis, JCC East Bay’s \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jewishmusicfestival.org/\">Jewish Music Festival\u003c/a> has gained international renown for its encompassing vision, ranging far beyond expected styles and traditions. But even given the festival’s far-flung net, Russell’s music reflects a creative sojourn unlike any other artist’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came to spirituals via Yiddish songs, which he’s been delving into for the past five years or so. He had something of an epiphany while casually singing to himself the Yiddish song “Der Germore Nign,” a lament from a young religious school student despondent about being separated from his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/cG2oYmNHZQo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was all about this child who felt completely alone, and something about it reminded me of ‘Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless child,’ which was the only Negro spiritual I knew,” Russell recalls. “I started combining them line for line, and eventually it started to cohere, not just as a piece of music but as an expression very much in the same emotional vein, as much Jewish as it was black. Coming from a similar time, the 19th century, it didn’t seem strange to me. It felt instinctual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to overstate the parallels between the Ashkenazi Jewish experience in pre-Holocaust Europe and the African-American experience in chattel slavery and under Jim Crow. But the Hebrew Bible’s story of exile, slavery and the long struggle for freedom resonated powerfully with African-Americans, just as Black musical expression inspired so many Jewish musicians and composers in America and Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Russell spent a good deal of time searching for songs that could amplify each other’s theme, he was often successful in combining Yiddish songs and spirituals “so they’re seamless,” he says. “The odd thing is that they really work together. I don’t do anything to make them. The melodies shadow each other. The idea is to take these pieces and illustrate a world in which these things are happening all at once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2014/03/17/anthonym640.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Oakland bass Anthony Russell\" class=\"alignright\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developing this unusual repertoire was one thing. Performing it in front of Jewish audiences was another matter entirely. Worried he would come across as needlessly provocative, he hesitated before accepting an engagement at Toronto’s 2012 Ashkenaz Festival, the largest Jewish music showcase in North America. Audiences loved his music, but wanted to get a fix on just who was this black guy singing Yiddish songs with so much soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I started singing in Yiddish I had no patter,” Russell says. “I was like, now I’m going to sing a song about a man who’s exiled to Siberia. I hope you like it. That first big gig at the Ashkenaz Festival was a free concert, and it was standing room only and I was already a little freaked out. I hadn’t worked with Jewish audiences very long, and I’m doing these non-introductions and people start raising their hands. Where do you come from? You’re singing in Yiddish, how does that happen? It didn’t occur to me that people have a lot of questions. You need to be explained. You are anomalous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell came by his Jewish identity not via a spiritual epiphany but through love. Growing up in a devout but not doctrinal Christian household, he always felt drawn to the Hebrew Bible, or as Christians call it, the Old Testament. He grew up mostly in Vallejo, and studied voice at Oakland’s Holy Names University, and had minimal contact with Jewish people until his 20s. Heading to New York City in 2007 for his first major role in an opera production, Mozart’s \u003ci>Così fan tutte\u003c/i>, he was looking at an online gay dating site and found a guy in New York he thought was cute. They ended up making a date to meet at a Mets game, and hit it off. Russell moved to New York to pursue the relationship and his career in opera, and he’s been with Rabbi Mike Rothbaum ever since. They relocated to the Bay Area in the summer of 2012 when Rothbaum was hired as rabbi and educator at Danville’s Congregation Beth Chaim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got very serious, and he asked me at some point, are you at all interested in converting?” Russell says. “It felt very much a part of myself, how I viewed the world. It was a no-brainer for me, and not a hard thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/6yCTF8Z5doI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days Russell drops Yiddish into casual conversations like he grew up in Brooklyn with grandparents from the shtetl. He’s found a tight-knit community of artists similarly devoted to Old World Jewish music, which is what led to his collaboration with Veretski Pass. He first met the trio, which features bassist Stuart Brotman and the Berkeley-based couple, fiddler Cookie Segelstein and Joshua Horowitz on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer) and button accordion, at the fateful 2012 Ashkenaz Festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve become close musical confidantes — Russell stars in Veretski Pass’s bawdy one act production \u003ci>Lilith, The Night Demon\u003c/i>, which premieres May 1 at the Osher Marin JCC’s Kanbar Center, May 3 at the JCC East Bay, and May 4 at the Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center. For Russell, the Bay Area music scene has offered an ideal setting in which to craft a musical identity as an African-American Jew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Northern California it feels like the sky’s the limit,” he says. “I met some great people in New York who were supportive of what I was doing with Yiddish music, but in New York you’re in a constant state of evaluation. People are trying to figure out if you’re wasting their time. If you’re a black man who decides one day you’re going to sing in Yiddish, it was very hard to find anyone excited about it and what I was doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 29th Jewish Music Festival presents Anthony Russell’s \u003ci>Convergence\u003c/i> with Veretski Pass, Sunday, March 23 at the JCC East Bay. For \u003ca href=\"http://www.jewishmusicfestival.org/events/convergence\">tickets and information\u003c/a> visit jewishmusicfestival.org.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Performing it in front of Jewish audiences was another matter entirely. Worried he would come across as needlessly provocative, he hesitated before accepting an engagement at Toronto’s 2012 Ashkenaz Festival, the largest Jewish music showcase in North America. Audiences loved his music, but wanted to get a fix on just who was this black guy singing Yiddish songs with so much soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I started singing in Yiddish I had no patter,” Russell says. “I was like, now I’m going to sing a song about a man who’s exiled to Siberia. I hope you like it. That first big gig at the Ashkenaz Festival was a free concert, and it was standing room only and I was already a little freaked out. I hadn’t worked with Jewish audiences very long, and I’m doing these non-introductions and people start raising their hands. Where do you come from? You’re singing in Yiddish, how does that happen? It didn’t occur to me that people have a lot of questions. You need to be explained. 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They immigrated to Israel with other Iraqi Jews as part of a mass exodus of Jews from Arab countries after Israel’s 1948 creation, but in Israel, the brothers’ Arabic-language songs received little attention, while in Iraq and other Arab countries, their songs were still widely played, but attributed to other musicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make money in Israel, the brothers sold groceries, and only played at bar mitzvahs and other small affairs. Embittered, they forbade their children from becoming musicians. Daoud died in 1976, Saleh ten years later. Three months after Daoud’s death, Daoud’s daughter Carmela gave birth to Dudu, who is named after Daoud. Carmela, who always wanted to be a singer and an oudist, played the al-Kuwaiti brothers’ songs for Dudu when he was a child. After he established himself as one of Israel’s top rock singers and songwriters — in 2009, he composed the theme music for \u003ci>Kokhav Nolad (A Star Is Born)\u003c/i>, the Israeli version of \u003ci>American Idol\u003c/i> — Tassa was inspired to tweak the music of his grandfather and great uncle. On \u003ci>Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis\u003c/i>, Carmela sings on one track, and she has performed on stage with her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/MKWmuaw5Ehs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tassa and his manager, Or Davidson, say Israeli society wasn’t ready for the al-Kuwaiti brothers’ music in the 1950s. Now, with the music’s edgier pace — fueled by a mix of electric guitar, traditional flute, drums, and Arab music scales — and blend of Hebrew and Arabic lyrics, young Israelis have gravitated to the songs. Not every track on \u003ci>Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis\u003c/i> is a dance piece. But each song instills an intensity in the audience. Davidson calls Dudu’s \u003ci>Kuwaiti\u003c/i> songs “Arab rock.” The March 20 concert will feature violinist and oudist Yair Dalal, who plays on the album (and who’s descended from Iraqi Jews), and a back-up band that includes a guitarist, cellist, drummer, qanun player, and a musician using a computer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that I learned,” Tassa says in Hebrew, which Davidson translated into English, “is that the new generation of Israelis was thirsty to hear what I heard in my mother’s home, but in a modern way, the way I did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Israel in those times,” Davidson says of the 1950s, “to hear Iraq music or Arabic music was not really cool. This is one reason that the Kuwaiti brothers didn’t succeed in Israel. This project,” he adds, “offers closure for Carmela. 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"content": "\u003cp>At a recent performance at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefreight.org/\">Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse\u003c/a> in Berkeley, musician and producer Laurie Lewis introduced her song “The Crooked Miles,” about the twists fate can take, this way: “It’s what happens in life. And I’m so glad to be here right now. And if it weren’t for all those crooked miles, I might be somewhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"/arts/series/culturecreatescommunity\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-129114\" alt=\"Spark: Culture Creates Community - A special KQED Arts series\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/sparkcc.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her explanation is simple yet profound — the same combination of qualities that defines her music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis is widely recognized for her contributions as a bluegrass artist. The International Bluegrass Music Association has twice named her Female Bluegrass Vocalist of the Year. Early in her career, she won the California Women’s Fiddling championships. And multiple bluegrass albums she’s played on have been nominated for Grammys — one of them, \u003ci>True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe\u003c/i>, won Best Bluegrass Album in 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128450\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 512px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/laurielewis360.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-128450 \" alt=\"Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands in concert at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage. The Grammy-winning artist has lived in Berkeley "pretty much since I was 8 years old.\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/laurielewis360.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/laurielewis360.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/laurielewis360-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/laurielewis360-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands in concert at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage. The Grammy-winning artist has lived in Berkeley “pretty much since I was 8 years old.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when pressed to describe the kind of music she plays, Lewis resists the obvious characterization. “As a bluegrass purist, I think a lot of what I do is not bluegrass,” she says. “I sometimes say that I’m a singer-songwriter with a string band.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviewers over the years have gotten closer to capturing the essence of Lewis’ gift. Billboard once praised her ability to “successfully walk the high wire above esoteric country, combining elements of bluegrass and pure country to form her own seamless mix.” And the venerable folk-music magazine \u003ci>Sing Out!\u003c/i> recently stated, “It’s not too much of a stretch to suggest that if the ‘Americana’ format wasn’t invented for her, it should have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t have to know anything about the kind of music Lewis plays to be transported by it. At a live performance, the imagery of her lyrics and the warmth of her crystalline alto instantly connect the audience to the singer, to the other people in the room and to the natural world from which she draws much of her inspiration. And whether she’s strumming her guitar and singing solo, holding down the melody line in a four-part harmony, or stomping her stylish cowboy boots while sawing on her fiddle, Lewis tells stories in her songs that seem both personal and universal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6pLXnwhFgU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a surprising skill set for a Northern California native. Lewis has lived in Berkeley “pretty much since I was 8 years old.” It was there, as a teenager, that she heard bluegrass music for the first time, at the Berkeley Folk Music Festival. And even though she’d trained on the classical violin for several years prior to the festival, she points to that event as her musical awakening: “That festival blew my ears wide open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Folk Music Festival ran from 1958 to 1970 and featured many prominent musicians from the “folk revival” of the late ’60s, including well-known folkies like Joan Baez, Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs. But unlike other folk festivals of the time, the Berkeley festival cast a wide musical net that included traditional bluegrass from the likes of Doc Watson and Jean Ritchie, electronic rock artists like Jefferson Airplane and The Youngbloods, and roots and blues artists like Howlin’ Wolf and Big Mama Thornton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128448\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/laurielewis1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128448\" alt=\"Lewis warms up backstage with Erika Tietjen of the T Sisters. Lewis, who is in demand as a producer for emerging and established artists, is producing the Sisters' first CD.\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/laurielewis1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/laurielewis1.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/laurielewis1-400x224.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/laurielewis1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis warms up backstage with Erika Tietjen of the T Sisters. Lewis, who is in demand as a producer for emerging and established artists, is producing the Sisters’ first CD.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The festival’s influence helped expand the American folk music genre. It also helped to define the adventurous musical and cultural milieu of the Bay Area, and had a profound effect on local artists like Lewis. That diversity continues to thrive today in the Bay Area, due in part to Lewis’ contribution to the scene and her continued focus on developing her own distinct musical voice as well as the talents of new artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to putting out more albums that she can keep track of (“more than 20”), she’s been busy producing the music of emerging musicians like \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/artschool/episode.jsp?essid=132781\">American Nomad\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://tsisters.com/\">T Sisters\u003c/a> (who are featured in the accompanying video), as well as bluegrass legends like Charles Sawtelle and Alice Gerard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/AA8Nu1cAiZ0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis has also been deeply involved for many years in teaching both children and adults. Every year she teaches at music camps around the country, an aspect of her musical trajectory that’s become as important to her as her own musical expression. “It’s just so great to watch them grow up and get deeper and deeper into the music and to feel like somehow you’re some little part of it,” she gushes proudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Lewis’ life has indeed taken some interesting twists and turns. But for all the decades of traveling, performing and recording with some of the most renowned musicians in the world, she’s always happy to be back home in Berkeley, surrounded by her instruments, her home recording studio and the rich and vital music community that she has helped to form here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"clearfix10\">\u003c!-- -->\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cdiv class=\"clearfix10\">\u003c!-- -->\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"img-right\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\" href=\"http://www.hewlett.org/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2014/01/29/logohewlettfoundation300px.png\" width=\"125\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFunding for KQED Arts is provided by \u003ca href=\"http://www.hewlett.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The William and\u003cbr>\nFlora Hewlett Foundation\u003c/a>. Support is also provided by the members of KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And whether she’s strumming her guitar and singing solo, holding down the melody line in a four-part harmony, or stomping her stylish cowboy boots while sawing on her fiddle, Lewis tells stories in her songs that seem both personal and universal.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/i6pLXnwhFgU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/i6pLXnwhFgU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s a surprising skill set for a Northern California native. Lewis has lived in Berkeley “pretty much since I was 8 years old.” It was there, as a teenager, that she heard bluegrass music for the first time, at the Berkeley Folk Music Festival. And even though she’d trained on the classical violin for several years prior to the festival, she points to that event as her musical awakening: “That festival blew my ears wide open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Folk Music Festival ran from 1958 to 1970 and featured many prominent musicians from the “folk revival” of the late ’60s, including well-known folkies like Joan Baez, Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs. But unlike other folk festivals of the time, the Berkeley festival cast a wide musical net that included traditional bluegrass from the likes of Doc Watson and Jean Ritchie, electronic rock artists like Jefferson Airplane and The Youngbloods, and roots and blues artists like Howlin’ Wolf and Big Mama Thornton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128448\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/laurielewis1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128448\" alt=\"Lewis warms up backstage with Erika Tietjen of the T Sisters. 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It also helped to define the adventurous musical and cultural milieu of the Bay Area, and had a profound effect on local artists like Lewis. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003ch4>Listen to \u003ci>The California Report\u003c/i>‘s story on Sistema Bomb’s unique take on Son Jarocho:\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2014/03/SistemaBomb.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>You might be familiar with the 1958 Ritchie Valens song, “La Bamba.” But what you might not know is that this song comes from a very old Mexican musical genre, the Son Jarocho. Born of conquest and slavery, Son Jarocho is a traditional music from the Mexican state of Veracruz that mixes African, indigenous, and European influences to produce a truly American sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, that music is being transformed, inspired in part by a new generation of California musicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/culturecreatescommunity/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-129114\" alt=\"Spark: Culture Creates Community - A special KQED Arts series\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/sparkcc.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those musicians is Hector “Hecdog” Perez. At his San Francisco studio, he sits at a control panel that looks a little like it belongs at NASA headquarters, pushing buttons and watching a display of sine waves bounce up and down on a big screen in front of him. But instead of launching a rocket, he’s setting off a bomb: Sistema Bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">“It’s a lot like what New Orleans is here because it’s a port city,” Perez explains. “The histories are combined in the way the people dress, the way they speak, in the poetry, in the food and in the music.”\u003c/span>Sistema Bomb is a music project, and Perez is its creator. He’s bringing an electronic sensibility and a California perspective to the music of Son Jarocho. The genre is no stranger to adaptation. Its epicenter is the city of Veracruz, Mexico, one the oldest ports in the Americas. It’s where Hernán Cortés first landed on his conquest of Mexico back in the 1500s, and it became a gateway for slavery, colonization and trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/sistemabomb360.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-128455 \" alt='With Sistema Bomb, Hector \"Hecdog\" Perez brings an electronic sensibility and a California perspective to the music of Son Jarocho.' src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/sistemabomb360.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/sistemabomb360.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/sistemabomb360-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/sistemabomb360-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Sistema Bomb, Hector “Hecdog” Perez brings an electronic sensibility and a California perspective to the music of Son Jarocho. \u003ccite>(Eva Scott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People from all over the world mixed together, and you can hear all those influences in the Son Jarocho sound. It’s a sound that Perez has been listening to most of his life. He first heard the music as a kid growing up in South LA. “My parents are from Jalisco. I grew up listening to cumbia as well as Son Jarocho, as well as hip hop, as well as reggae, classical music and jazz,” says Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/sistema-bomb/sistema-bomb-la-gallina\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as he got older, his interests shifted. He studied electronic music at UC Berkeley, went on to a gig at A&M Records, and founded his own production company, Music Orange. He makes music for commercial clients like Apple, Sony, and Yahoo. But it was a Los Lobos song, “La Guacamaya,” that took him back to his roots. “When I heard that song, that requinto that David Hidalgo was playing, I just wanted to know what that was,” Perez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requinto is a melodic guitar, one of Son Jarocho’s central instruments. And the sound of that guitar took Perez on a musical journey, one that melded tradition with technology, and led to the creation of Sistema Bomb’s first album, \u003ci>Electro-Jarocho\u003c/i>, a groundbreaking record that got nominated for a Grammy in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez is now hard at work on a track for Sistema Bomb’s second album, due out later this year. It’s called \u003ci>El Camotal\u003c/i>. Perez’s version also features Afro-Latin jazz percussionist John Santos, and Ozomatli’s Asdru Sierra. But it’s Perez’s palette of digital beats and electronic tones that brings it to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128456\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/sistemabomb1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-128456 \" alt=\"Sistema Bomb's first album Electro-Jarocho earned a 2013 Grammy nomination for Best Latin Rock, Urban, or Alternative Album.\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/sistemabomb1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/sistemabomb1.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/sistemabomb1-400x291.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/sistemabomb1-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sistema Bomb’s first album Electro-Jarocho earned a 2013 Grammy nomination for Best Latin Rock, Urban, or Alternative Album. \u003ccite>(Wendy Marroquin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fans and traditionalists might wonder if the Son Jarocho actually needed this jolt of electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marco Villalobos spent time in the studio during the making of Sistema Bomb’s first record. 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But the band shocked the Latin music world this year when, without a national record deal, it managed to upset \u003ca href=\"http://www.marcanthonyonline.com/\">Marc Anthony\u003c/a> and two other Sony Music Latin acts and win the Grammy for the Best Tropical Latin Album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacific Mambo Orchestra was started by two Bay Area musicians, pianist Christian Tumalan and trumpeter Steffen Kuehn, who saw a void on the Latin music scene — big bands of the past. “A lot of people were sort of craving this sound,” said Tumalan during a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201402281000\">recent interview\u003c/a> on KQED’s \u003ci>Forum\u003c/i>. “They have been listening on the radio and in the club scene to a lot of different types of salsa. 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