AprilFishes
This is the sound of a new era---where global ties are strengthened through human contact, ideas and inspiration rather than trade agreements and tightened borders. Rupa & the April Fishes create music that busts through boundaries of musical genre, language and time making a fresh sound that must be experienced rather than pigeonholed.
Their rousing and intimate performances have earned them comparisons as encompassing as Lhasa to Gogol Bordello and Beirut to Manu Chao. Drawing from her nomadic childhood in India, France and the US as well as her work as a physician in San Francisco, Rupa's songs explore a wide swath of human experience in a multitude of languages drawing upon inspiration from songs from the streets around the world arranged for cello, accordion, trumpet, upright bass, drums and guitar.
The band is based in the lotus-eaters land of San Francisco and has toured in the US, Mexico, Canada and Europe. They have traveled to Tijuana where they stayed with deported migrants and learned more about the humanistic impact of the US-Mexico border. In 2008, they played the Montreal Jazz Festival, Central Park Summerstage, Grand Performances, SXSW, the inaugural epic Outside Lands Festival and toured in the US, Europe and Canada in support of the release of their debut album "eXtraOrdinary rendition" on Cumbancha in April 2008.
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