Here’s the initial batch. I’ll be adding more videos in more categories. Thanks for watching!
Monthly Archive for April, 2010
This was a remarkable night for me, playing with Ted Poor (drums) and Stomu Takeishi (bass) in Bogotá. I enjoyed that gig a lot! Thanks to El Anónimo, and el mono (its owner) in Bogotá for the most welcoming vibe, and for believing that honest, live music is what it’s all about. September 10, 2009
This tune is a tribute to my friend Diego Obregón who is a beautiful musician from Guapí, Colombia. Besides being one of those musicians for whom music pours out in the most outstanding, organic, natural and totally rhythmic-perfect way, Diego is a first rate traditional Colombia marimba maker, and carrier of the Pacific Coast tradition, perhaps the kind of Colombian music that moves me the most. “Tantas flores y no hay jardín” means “All those flowers and no garden…” for Colombians, flowers mean compliments. Diego often replies with that phrase whenever someone pays him a compliment.
with Ted Poor and Stomu Takeishi in Bogotá at El Anónimo. September 10, 2009
In Colombia, and most likely through Latin America, there’s a very popular genre of music that’s often labeled “Música para planchar”: Music for ironing. It’s romantic, very melodramatic soap opera kind of music. Here’s the Cheap Landscape’s attempt at it!
Live in L.A.’s Japanese National Museum. Ruben Samama-bass, Joe Saylor-drums. August 2008
The first gig of The Cheap Landscape Trio (we had a couple as quartet before). With Ruben Samama on bass and Joe Saylor on drums. Feb. 5, 2008 at Rose in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Through most of 2009 I had a steady gig every Friday at Terraza, a nice cozy bar in Queens (I am still going the first Friday of every month). This is a Colombian Atlantic Coast standard Bullerengue. With Franco Pinna on drums, and Andrés Rotmistrovsky on bass. I am out of frame through most of the video! but it was a performance I enjoyed. Sometime bet. December 2009 and Jan 2010
