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AphrodesiA

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About Me

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Member Since: 10/7/2005
Band Website: aphrodesia.org
Band Members: Lara Maykovich : vocals, mbira. Maya Dorn : vocals. Ezra Gale : bass. David Sartore : guitar. Mike Abraham : guitar. Jason Slapsaw Slota : drums. Mike Spooner : percussion. Henry Hung : trumpet. Sylvain Carton : saxophones. Mitch Marcus: saxophones Liz Larsen : trombone. WITH Alex Mensah, Charlie Gurke, Chris Mulhauser, Paul Sonnabend, Aaron Bennett, Michael Osbourne, Marcus Stephens, Nicole Rodriguez, Todd Grady, Cody Anderson, Camilo Landau, Brian Moran, SUCO Mike 1 and 2, Darrin Johnston, Steve Rhodes, Dave Scott...
Influences: Fela Kuti, James Brown, Talking Heads, dub, funk, rawk, The Police, Willie, Ali Farka Toure, Black Sabbath, Boubacar Traoré, jazz, metal, Babatunde Olatunji, Ween, King Sunny Ade, this could go on forever....
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Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Complete Africa Tour Diaries Vol 7- In Northern Ghana

The drive to Napoleon's village of Binaba takes 20 hours. It's far, though not nearly as far as where that amount of time would get us back home- when you have to slow down for goats and chickens in ...
Posted by AphrodesiA on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:49:00 PST

The Complete Africa Tour Diaries Vol 5- Leaving Accra

  If it has sounded so far like we have taken a giant leap into the unknown, improvising madly like Coltrane blowing through choruses as we find some way to conduct business and further our missi...
Posted by AphrodesiA on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:25:00 PST

The Complete Africa Tour Diaries Vol 5- Leaving Accra

  If it has sounded so far like we have taken a giant leap into the unknown, improvising madly like Coltrane blowing through choruses as we find some way to conduct business and further our missi...
Posted by AphrodesiA on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:25:00 PST

The Complete Africa Tour Diaries Vol 4- African Health Care

  I sit on the steps of the Mannah Mission Hospital, which, according to the bronze plaque prominently displayed right here on the entrance steps, is supported in part by the generous contributio...
Posted by AphrodesiA on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:24:00 PST

The Complete Africa Tour Diaries Vol 3- Africa Unite? Not Quite

-->msnavigation-->  AFRICA UNITE? NOT QUITE The plan was, let's go to Ghana, play the big festival we've got booked, and then ride the wave as things are bound to accelerate from there after we...
Posted by AphrodesiA on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:21:00 PST

The Complete Africa Tour Diaries Vol 2- Labadi Beach, Accra

  Labadi Beach, Accra, Ghana Wednesday night we pile in a tro tro en masse and descend on the Labadi Beach reggae party, where we watch varying combinations of bands and singers blare reggae thro...
Posted by AphrodesiA on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:11:00 PST

The Complete Africa Tour Diaries- Vol. 1 Arrival in Ghana

 Months of meeting, weeks of planning and days of running around San Francisco like chickens with our heads cut off getting ready for the biggest leap of faith in our lives has taught us to have ...
Posted by AphrodesiA on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:09:00 PST

Africa

Despite the crushing heat, malaria sticken band members, and lack of anything invloving normalcy, Africa tour was a success. We were able to visit Nigeria (at the request of one Femi Kuti) and play at...
Posted by AphrodesiA on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 04:31:00 PST