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of all downloads
go to an indigenous arts organization
CDs can only be purchased at live performances
can be downloaded at
BANDCAMP
100%
of all downloads
go to an indigenous arts organization
CDs can only be purchased at live performances
the music was recorded with indigenous
breath,
percussion
and
string instruments of MesoAmerica and Mexico
along with
some traditional folkloric compositions
recorded with marimba and voice and poetry
from the
CANTARES DE IDIOMA MEXICANO
and
THE FLORENTINE CODEX
breath,
percussion
and
string instruments of MesoAmerica and Mexico
along with
some traditional folkloric compositions
recorded with marimba and voice and poetry
from the
CANTARES DE IDIOMA MEXICANO
and
THE FLORENTINE CODEX
REVIEWS
"The recording was beautiful....subtle tones and colors, visionary
most definitely. Great artists who walk their own path is what I most
admire and courage....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 a
nd/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". A sonic peyote trip............."
LATINO LA
"The recording was beautiful....subtle tones and colors, visionary
most definitely. Great artists who walk their own path is what I most
admire and courage....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 a
nd/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". A sonic peyote trip............."
LATINO LA
