Music, Photography, Art, Eastern Religion and especially Rumba!
Music
African Gangbe Brass Band, Cheikh Lo, King Sunny Ade, Lemzo Diamono, Soulemane Faye, Salif Keita et
Ambassadeurs International, Ousmane Kouyate, Etoile de Dakar, Foday Musa Suso,
Kouyate:
Francis Akotuah Ensemble:
Afro-Beat Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Tony Allen, Antibalas, Afrobeat Down, Delta Nove, Bala Miller & The Great Music Pirameeds Of Afrika, Ernesto Djedje
Blues R.L. Burnside, John Lee Hooker, Son House, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Robert Pete Williams, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy
Brass Band Rebirth Brass Band, Soul Rebels, Young Olympians, Olympia Brass Band
Classical Handel, Purcell, Telemann, Bach
Cuba (Folkloric) Los Munequitos, Los Papines, Mongo Santamaria, Merceditas Valdez, Carlos Embale, Jerry Gonzalez, Afrocuba de Matanzas:
Cuba (New School) Omar Sosa, Anga Diaz, Maraca, Cachaito, Dafnis Prieto, Samuel Torres, Issac Delgado, Alain Perez, Los Van Van
Cuba (Old School) Arsenio Rodiguez, Chappotin, Cachao, Tito Puente, Nino Rivera, Johnny Pacheco (Latin Jam era), Justi Barreto, Conjunto Kubavana, Conjunto Modelo
Fife & Drum Otha Turner, Napolean Strickland
Folktronica Petracovich
Funk James Brown, Graham Central Station, Sly & The Family Stone, Shuggie & Lucky Otis, Parliament, Bootsy Collins, Dawn Silva & the Brides of Funkenstein, Sweat Band, Con Funk Shun, Bar-Kays, Kool & the Gang, Fatback
Go-Go Chuck Brown, E.U., Trouble Funk
Gospel Blind Boys of Alabama, Robert Randolph, Campbell Brothers, Sacred Steel, Suzanne Brewer "zluv", Memphis Gospel Quartets
Hip-Hop Talib Kweli, dead prez, The Roots, Tony Touch!, The Beatnuts, RBL Posse, Wu-Tang Financial, GZA, Masta Killa
Jazz Dizzy Gillespie, John & Alice Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Sun Ra, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Hamid Drake, Cecil Taylor, Pharoah Sanders, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Charles Gayle, Modern Jazz Quartet, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Charlie Haden
Marching Greg Jackson:
Metal Children of Bodom, Rage Against the Machine, Falling to Pieces, Mind Furnace
R&B Shuggie Otis, Raphael Saadiq, Gnarls Barkley, D'Angelo, Rahsaan Patterson, Patrice Rushen, Sam Salter
Reggae Bob, Stephen & Julian Marley, Count Ossie & the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Sean Paul, Lilly Allen Mighty Diamonds, Ras Michael, Steel Pulse, Mutabaruka, Jackie Mittoo, Lord Kitchener, Mighty Sparrow, Safi Abdullah
Reggaeton Don Chezina!, Don Omar
Rock Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin
Ska Skatalites, The Conspiracy
Soul The Spinners, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Amy Winehouse, Donny Hathaway, The Dramatics
Movies
Dizzy Gillespie- "A Night in Havana"; Andy Goldsworthy- "Rivers & Tides"; "The World According to John Coltrane"; Bebo Valdes & Cigala "Blanco y Negro"
Television
South Park, MXC, SNL, Simpsons, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Family Guy, American Dad, NBA Basketball, & Dave Chappelle (please come back)
Books
Tibetan Book of Living & Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, A Still Forest Pool by Achaan Chah, anything by Jamgon Kongtrul, Thinley Norbu, Tulku Thondup & Chogyam Trungpa; anything by Andy Goldsworthy (Nature-Art Photography), Allen Ginsberg, Marc Olmsted.
Heroes
Bootsy Collins, Larry Graham, Arsenio Rodriguez, Lili Martinez Grinan, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Giovanni Hidalgo:
Samuel Torres:
Alexi Laiho(Vivaldi's "Summer" Two guitars, no overdubs):
Sandy Perez, Jerry Gonzalez, Anga Diaz, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Omar Sosa, Alain Perez, Juan Carlos Alfonso, John Santos, Josh Jones, Javier Navarette, Ignacio Pinero, Lee Smith, Dafnis Prieto, the Dalai Lama, Ben Harper, Shuggie + Lucky + Johnny Otis:
About me: Drummer, Percussionist, Bassist, Philosopher, Rumbero, Child of Production, Music Disciple + Educator, Artist, Photographer, Conguero/Timbalero
Who I'd like to meet: Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Dalai Lama, Juan Carlos Alfonso (Dan Den), Alain Perez, Larry Graham, Tony Allen (Fela Kuti), Amadito Valdes, Los Munequitos de Matanzas, Geoff Brennan, Hamid Drake, Samuel Torres, Alexi Laiho, Don Chezina, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Lamine Faye and among others-
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Dude, will you tell me if you hear anything about Armando playing anywhere? id love to go check it out with you. Too bad we missed each other up north.
Great pics man, wish i was there. Stay in touch, now that Alex is gone, we gotta make it happen without him! Check out the song i posted on my site from this past weekend playing with Alex up at the Yuba River. Called it "Alex and Friends."
Hey man how are you? Just wanted to stop by and say hi. My band is doin pretty good in the north bay. We do a steady 5-6 shows a month. How is your music goin?
Thank you Jonathan! Stay in touch for new Petralvar songs coming soon! ----<--@ Keep your horns up! Much love to you always. Your friends, Petra and Alvaro.
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