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MUSIC
for indigenous
percussion,
string
and
breath instruments
of
Mesoamerica/Mexico
flower song
and
spoken word
for indigenous
percussion,
string
and
breath instruments
of
Mesoamerica/Mexico
flower song
and
spoken word
REVIEWS
"The recording was beautiful....subtle tones and colors, visionary
most definitely...........onward and upward in LIFE and MUSIC.."
RA KALAM BOB MOSES
"RESONANCIA,
the new album from Christopher Garcia's ORQUESTA INDIGENA,
lives up to the name on every level -- sound, spirit and concept.
The low drum vibrations can make you feel the heartbeat of
a sleeping dragon
The high rattles can sound like a dance of skeleton elves.
The wooden and clay flutes raise images of ancient Mesoamerican
temples, while some of the female vocalizing draws you inside a cathedral
and if you've been in a Mexican or Peruvian cathedral,
you know how thoroughly the invaders' religion was transformed by
indigenous influences.....
Some of the beats even carry the universality of
the blues. We hear calls to action, the threat of war,
a reverence for peace......."
METALJAZZ.COM
"Christopher Garcia is a critically acclaimed as a composer, and virtuosic improviser on instruments not usually associated with just one musician including drumset, marimba, and instruments of north and south India and breath, string and percussion instruments of Mesoamerica, in every music combination possible - avant, classical, folkloric, indigenous, jazz, rock, and world, with a virtual who’s who of musicians with performances in 28 countries on 5 continents."
ATENCION SAN MIGUEL ALLENDE
"When I met Christopher García a couple of years ago, as he
rehearsed and played one of his pieces for ancestral Mexican
percussion instruments and wind quintet, I rediscovered something
I had somehow lost track of throughout the years: a musician rooted
in the rituals of magical performance.
Beyond the external aspects of power, virtuosity or any other relative
term of comparison, there was something unique coming across,
akin to a religious experience, through his beats and rhythms.
I think Christopher is definitely on the path of connecting the objects
he strikes or shakes with the deeper currents of the soul.
That's what I felt when he played;
he's not only resuscitating old instruments,
he's on a different search."
COMPOSER PAUL DESENNE
"Christopher Garcia is a native of East Los Angeles, who attended
the California Institute of the Arts in 1979 and continues to compose,
improvise, concertize, lecture, and share his personal experiences with
indigenous music, instruments, culture, and culture bearers, and
history of Mesoamerica at universities and concert halls worldwide along
with the physiological effects of music, rhythm, and drumming which
continue to be validated daily through neuroscience, confirming the information left to us by the ancients....."
OTIS ARTS INSTITUTE
"We continue to commemorate our ancestors, this time, in a special way
with a concert by Christopher García, a multifaceted musician who visits
the Botanical Garden to awaken our senses with ancestral musical instruments...."
JARDIN BOTANICO
CHARCO DEL INGENIO
SAN MGUEL DE ALLENDE, MX
"While he has devoted much of his life to learning indigenous music
Garcia also revels in playing the new and unexpected…..Garcia's musical vocabulary not only spans centuries and cultures it's also spontaneous."
DEUTSCHE WELLE
GERMANYS INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTER
"Garcia's compositions reflect a lifelong pursuit to put himself in the most creative musical situations possible with percussion and breath instruments he has learned along with performance practices, musical vernaculars, sounds and music which he has been immersed in since 1979 to the present. Gleaned thru rehearsals, performances, compositions and research, and sitting across from learning and/or playing alongside great musicians from various musical cultures
(he has over 1200 performance in 29 countries on 5 continents).
His music resonates organically, and never seems contrived or slapped together as he draws from the rich color of sounds at his disposal, and where and how he chooses to place the silences within and around his compositions and performances. His music has a rhythmic complexity that propels and co exists with memorable melodies that tie the pieces together - combining and extending traditions his is a unique voice in the tradition of composer/performer/improviser with instruments not generally associated with the instruments of the western "classical world". "
LATINO LA
"The recording was beautiful....subtle tones and colors, visionary
most definitely...........onward and upward in LIFE and MUSIC.."
RA KALAM BOB MOSES
"RESONANCIA,
the new album from Christopher Garcia's ORQUESTA INDIGENA,
lives up to the name on every level -- sound, spirit and concept.
The low drum vibrations can make you feel the heartbeat of
a sleeping dragon
The high rattles can sound like a dance of skeleton elves.
The wooden and clay flutes raise images of ancient Mesoamerican
temples, while some of the female vocalizing draws you inside a cathedral
and if you've been in a Mexican or Peruvian cathedral,
you know how thoroughly the invaders' religion was transformed by
indigenous influences.....
Some of the beats even carry the universality of
the blues. We hear calls to action, the threat of war,
a reverence for peace......."
METALJAZZ.COM
"Christopher Garcia is a critically acclaimed as a composer, and virtuosic improviser on instruments not usually associated with just one musician including drumset, marimba, and instruments of north and south India and breath, string and percussion instruments of Mesoamerica, in every music combination possible - avant, classical, folkloric, indigenous, jazz, rock, and world, with a virtual who’s who of musicians with performances in 28 countries on 5 continents."
ATENCION SAN MIGUEL ALLENDE
"When I met Christopher García a couple of years ago, as he
rehearsed and played one of his pieces for ancestral Mexican
percussion instruments and wind quintet, I rediscovered something
I had somehow lost track of throughout the years: a musician rooted
in the rituals of magical performance.
Beyond the external aspects of power, virtuosity or any other relative
term of comparison, there was something unique coming across,
akin to a religious experience, through his beats and rhythms.
I think Christopher is definitely on the path of connecting the objects
he strikes or shakes with the deeper currents of the soul.
That's what I felt when he played;
he's not only resuscitating old instruments,
he's on a different search."
COMPOSER PAUL DESENNE
"Christopher Garcia is a native of East Los Angeles, who attended
the California Institute of the Arts in 1979 and continues to compose,
improvise, concertize, lecture, and share his personal experiences with
indigenous music, instruments, culture, and culture bearers, and
history of Mesoamerica at universities and concert halls worldwide along
with the physiological effects of music, rhythm, and drumming which
continue to be validated daily through neuroscience, confirming the information left to us by the ancients....."
OTIS ARTS INSTITUTE
"We continue to commemorate our ancestors, this time, in a special way
with a concert by Christopher García, a multifaceted musician who visits
the Botanical Garden to awaken our senses with ancestral musical instruments...."
JARDIN BOTANICO
CHARCO DEL INGENIO
SAN MGUEL DE ALLENDE, MX
"While he has devoted much of his life to learning indigenous music
Garcia also revels in playing the new and unexpected…..Garcia's musical vocabulary not only spans centuries and cultures it's also spontaneous."
DEUTSCHE WELLE
GERMANYS INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTER
"Garcia's compositions reflect a lifelong pursuit to put himself in the most creative musical situations possible with percussion and breath instruments he has learned along with performance practices, musical vernaculars, sounds and music which he has been immersed in since 1979 to the present. Gleaned thru rehearsals, performances, compositions and research, and sitting across from learning and/or playing alongside great musicians from various musical cultures
(he has over 1200 performance in 29 countries on 5 continents).
His music resonates organically, and never seems contrived or slapped together as he draws from the rich color of sounds at his disposal, and where and how he chooses to place the silences within and around his compositions and performances. His music has a rhythmic complexity that propels and co exists with memorable melodies that tie the pieces together - combining and extending traditions his is a unique voice in the tradition of composer/performer/improviser with instruments not generally associated with the instruments of the western "classical world". "
LATINO LA