MUSIC BEYOND BORDERS INTERVIEWED BY NPR'S JOHN SCHNEIDER ON KPFK'S GLOBAL VILLAGE
KPFK's JOHN SCHNEIDER INTERVIEW EXCERPT
"Christopher Garcia has been a great friend of KPFK’s Global Village because he plays the most extraordinary music on the most extraordinary instruments with the most extraordinary musicians and today is absolutely no exception we are going to begin today with a live set from The Garcia Godinez Duo. Tasha Smith Godinez is on harp today although she plays all sorts of other instruments too and we’ll talk about that later, and the music … is exquisite." JOHN SCHNEIDER When people ask you when you are just meeting casually what kind of music do you play, what do you say? CG Actually, I don’t know what to call it, to be honest with you, I don’t know what you’d call it because we’re using all kinds of different elements, but I would say the elements that were using are pretty organic in regards to the arc of what Ive been doing, and what she’s been doing, and now what we’ve been doing is pretty organic as opposed to lets put something together that doesn’t usually go together for the sake of doing it. We both have lots of years in our instruments and in music, there was no hesitation on my part in regards to asking Tasha to work, and her wanting to work to do something that we havent done before TASHA SMITH GODINEZ Yeah, something new JOHN SCHNEIDER This is that CG Very much so JOHN SCHNEIDER I think you can call this “WHIRLED MUSIC” W H I R L E D CG Okay TASHA SMITH GODINEZ There we go JOHN SCHNEIDER blended music, different styles, different influences, different instruments, extraordinary |