The John-Carlos Perea Quintet:Dirk Alphin: pow-wow singing & drumming Bryan Bowman: drum set and tabla Masaru Koga: saxophones and flutes John-Carlos Perea: electric bass, cedar flute, pow-wow singing & drumming Tim Volpicella: electric guitar
John-Carlos Perea's Intertribal EnsembleDirk Alphin: pow-wow singing & drumming Lewis Jordan: baritone saxophone Masaru Koga: alto saxophone, flute Edwardo Madril: pow-wow dancer David Motto: electric bass Luke Taylor: pow-wow singing and drumming Tim Volpicella: electric guitar Francis Wong soprano sax, clarinet
Influences
(in no particular order): Jim Pepper, John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, James Jamerson, Oki Kano, Ben Black Bear, Sr., David Hildalgo, Mifune Toshiro, Guillermo Del Toro, Phil Lesh, John Paul Jones, Conrad Lozano, Tom Bee, Barney Hoehner-Peji, Wu Man, Kitano Takeshi, Kurosawa Akira, Aston Family Man Barrett, Rick Danko, David Motto, Eliot Wadopian, Uncle Paulie Sullivan, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Francis Wong, Sonny Sharrock, Verdine White, Wong Kar Wai, Moana and the Tribe, Auntie Rhoda Roberts, Transjoik, Rónán Ó Snodaigh, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Stewart Copeland, Tool, Asano Tadanobu, Mike Patton, Rubén Blades, Caetano Veloso, Mickey Houlihan, David Ake, Peter Epstein, Madeline Peyroux
JOHN-CARLOS PEREA Electric Bass Guitar, Northern Plains Pow-Wow Vocals, Cedar Flute
GRAMMY® Award winning pow-wow singer and cedar flutist John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache, Irish, German) was born in Dulce, New Mexico and raised in San Francisco, California. He received his BA in Music from San Francisco State University in 2000, studying electric bass with David Motto and ethnomusicology with Dr. Hafez Modirzadeh. During his time at San Francisco State, John-Carlos also studied Northern style pow-wow music with Dr. Bernard Hoehner-Peji and sang with the Blue Horse Singers, Dr. Hoehner-Peji’s pow-wow drum group.
John-Carlos released his first CD, First Dance, in 2001 and since then has performed alongside many eminent American Indian artists including Joy Harjo, Charlie Hill, and Sandra Osawa. In addition to leading his own quintet and performing with San Francisco-based ensembles such as Francis Wong’sGathering Of Ancestors and Dr. Loco y sus Tiburones del Norte, John-Carlos co-leads the Sweetwater Singers, a Northern Plains intertribal pow-wow drum.
John-Carlos received his MA in Music from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005 and is currently a doctoral candidate in Music at UC Berkeley. His dissertation focuses on the life and music of Creek and Kaw jazz saxophonist Jim Pepper. John-Carlos has lectured at San Francisco State, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard on the subjects of American Indian Music and American Indian Modern and Creative Performing Arts. He recently completed a Visiting Artist Fellowship with the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University that led to the formation of the Stanford IDA Singers, an intertribal Northern Plains pow-wow drum.
In May 2007, John-Carlos toured Japan with the Paul Winter Consort to premiere music from "Crestone", the new Consort CD to which John-Carlos contributes pow-wow vocals and cedar flute. "Crestone" received its US premiere in December 2007 at Paul Winter’s 28th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration held at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York and is a 2007 Grammy Winner (Best New Age Album, Vocal or Instrumental).
John-Carlos' recent appearances include Edwardo Madril'sSun Dagger Solstice and the University of San Francisco's Indigenous People's Day Music Celebration. In addition, John-Carlos recently received a Native American Arts and Cultural Traditions Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission commissioning him to compose new music for jazz sextet with pow-wow drum and singers.
Please join Los Cenzontles this Wednesday 11/12 @ Yoshi's in Oakland for an amazing evening of music with the legendary David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. Shows @ 8pm & 10pm. $10 off 10pm show. Thank you!
Thank you so much for inviting me to yesterday's performance at USF Presentation Theatre...Of course I hadn't anticipated the traffic coming over the Golden Gate bridge due to the "Blue Angels" and we missed part of it:( I brought a friend. We were thrilled. We loved your energy. The songs was awesome and we really get the fusion!! Please invite me to all of your performances. ((hugs)), Pomi
Amazing ballad and music up here, john-carlos. hope i am in town in december when you are out here; i might be in TX with my parents. all best to you, jen
Eh Ni Hao John-Carlos, I land into SFO August 8th. royal and i will be doing a West African drumming session sometime in the week before I go to Brazil Camp. Hope you can join us. It's bery hot here haaaa....?
Hey there! Just played Crestone this morning...okay, so I didn't listen to the whole album, just Witchi Tai To. Gives me the chills!!! haha! Have a good one! xo, Tricia
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