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Soma Mestizo

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 LicenseSoma Mestizo: It’s a stimulation of both the intellectual side of us and the side that really wants to dance.
The professor got her groove on…yes Martha you can care about the environment; want to smack the sh-t out of war mongers; work to put an end to all the bad –isms and all the while shake your cute white, black, brown, yellow, red, indescribable, indefinable ass. How? Well sit down Martha we gotta a story to tell: Soma Mestizo is 21st century music made by elements seen, felt and heard from all centuries proceeding.
Soma Mestizo brings an artistic precision to the medium of music. The poetry and prose of the lyrics melds with the sensual guitar, percussion and bass team up mimicking pulsating blood of the unseen but felt soul.
Soma Mestizo means "a body of mixtures" and the name, in the case of Soma Mestizo, is the thing: Indigenous meets technology, sex meets holiness, love meets truth.
Christiane D. explains, the process is as complex as the arrangements and as organic as the experience: “Any song, sound, chord, idea needs to have been through the blender of the myriad-flipped-oblique-spinning-twisted-backwards turned inside out revolution.”
Soma Mestizo: the deep, dark, sexy global genre busting, booty-shaking, head-filling magic music. As experienced on the following releases: Life of a Toy, Interim I, Peepshow, Silversun-ep, NO War, Interim II, IR 4, Telomere, and Nasty Boy on Strobotics Recording. -Tereneh Mosley

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Member Since: 05/02/2006
Band Website: www.somamestizo.com
Band Members: Christine D., Lead singer and Poet: Who “turns into the devil on-stage” Soy Sos, Sexy specter on Lead Guitar and producer of all things Soma. Whose real name is Herman Pearl. Richard “Skilah” Gartner, Drummer: Who can compose a song in adho?mukha?svana (downward-facing dog position) while drinking a latte. Strollo, Was Jesus in high school and is now Buddha in space. Ketan plays a mean chai on his bass.
Influences: Jimi Hendrix, Jurassic Park, Gang of Four, Asian Dub Foundation, Massive Attack, Weather Report, Henry Threadgill, Public Enemy, Dub Squad, Radiohead, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Tool, Astrud Gilberto, Busta Rhymes, Portishead, Bjork, Ministry, Labelle, Robin Trower, Betty Davis, Isaac Hayes, Dub Squad, Celia Cruz, Serge Gainsbourg, Nina Simone, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Mos Def, Black Uhuru, John Coltrane, Grace Jones, Yoko Ono, TransGlobal, Thomas Dolby, Natacha Atlas, Digital Underground, The Roots, Tribe called Quest, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Miles Davis, Chic Corea, Bad Brains, Femi Kuti, PJ Harvey, Chico Hamilton, PIL, Funkadelic, Thelonious Monk, Ali Fahkar Toure, Zap Mamma, Dinah Shore, Shirley Bassey, Black Flag, Dead can Dance, Diamanda Galas, Sade, Basement Jaxx, Kraftwerk, Cassandra Wilson, Digable Planets, Flora Purim, Tricky...
Sounds Like: the deep, dark, sexy global genre busting, booty-shaking, head-filling magic music.
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Performing at Christine Frechard Gallery

We, Soma Mestizo are very honored to play for the Grand opening of the Christine Frechard Gallery, this Saturday, November 7th, located at 5871 Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill. 8 pm, $ 10, liquids p...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:17:00 GMT

IR 22 routes to rootz vinyl release-free dub

IR 22 routes to rootz is a vinyl and digital release .A  special limited edition 12 inch vinyl with full colour poster has been created and will be given free to the public  in conjunction with the ...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:31:00 GMT

Show with Machete' this Friday!!!

 SOMA MESTIZO  UPCOMING SHOWS 6/12/09, Your Inner Vagabond, YIV6/13/09, East End Food Co-op, Co-op"it's been a long time, i shouldn't have left you, without a cool beat to step to"As some may know and...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:25:00 GMT

Save Arts & Culture in Pennsylvania!

Save Arts & Culture in Pennsylvania!State funding for arts and culture has been eliminated from the PA Senate's budget bill. Loss of state funds would be crippling to the creative sector during these ...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 07:56:00 GMT

FIRE it Up! postponed

Hello Lovelies, the May 15th show has been postponed until September.However, you may still be able to see AS Human and other acts on the bill at AVA. Keep your eyes and ears peeled.Thanks!xoxChristia...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 13:08:00 GMT

Soma Mestizo featured on label I.R releases mixtape by colombian dj rodrigo aka dj hush

http://dubreality.wordpress.com/While in Bogota ,Colombia ; IR was fortunate to hear a Colombian dj rodrigo who at that moment was spinning under one of his other personnas: dj hush. Impressed by his ...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:15:00 GMT

Soma Mestizo featured on IR18 release-spiritual dubness

Received trans-atlantic for the mysterious and mystical Kakonda Dub, that our track Tatto is featured on IR 18. Raging Blakkindian Dub madness: http://www.firethistime.com/Music:http://www.believedigi...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:05:00 GMT

SunStar Women in Music Festival-SM at Closing Party

10:00 PM | SUNSTAR Festival Closing Party at the Shadow Lounge w/ Soma Mestizo & DJ Natty Boom ($10.00/ included w/ Festival Pass)Shadow Lounge5972 Baum BoulevardPittsburgh, PA 15206
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:38:00 GMT

SUNSTAR Women in Music Festival -March 5-7 th

The SUNSTAR Women in Music Festival(March 5th - 7th, 2009) features a full roster of independent music artists and includes concerts, workshops and special events celebrating emerging & world class mu...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:45:00 GMT

If you wanna be friends...

Please don't send me a soft porn fucking invite with half naked women shaking their asses. Do I look like the kind of bitch that would dig that shit!Does this band seem like the kind of band that woul...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:58:00 GMT