COCHEMEA Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/artist/cochemea/ Guerssen Records Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:12:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-isotip-32x32.png COCHEMEA Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/artist/cochemea/ 32 32 Song Of Happiness b/w Stranded In Space… https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/song-of-happiness-b-w-stranded-in-space/ Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/song-of-happiness-b-w-stranded-in-space/ We're delighted to offer up the debut solo-single from Dap-Kings sax-man and long-time Daptone Family fixture, the peerless player with palpable provenance, Cochemea Gastelum. Recorded entirely in his humble bedroom studio, Cochemea masterfully blends the drum-machine-laden soul-explorations of artists like Shuggie Otis and Sly Stone, with the avant-garde, electric sax permutations of Eddie Harris. Side A, "Song Of Happiness," finds Cochemea drawing inspiration from his Native American roots, via a homage to the late 19th Century Navajo song, Shi naashá - which translates to, I am going/walking around - and was written to commemorate the release of the Navajo people from internment at Fort Sumpter. Unlike most other Navajo songs, Shi naashá is almost entirely translatable, giving it a universal message that Cochemea interprets instrumentally. On Side B we have "Stranded in Space." Propelled by the insistent pulse of a Maestro Rhythm King and fortified by Cochemea's pleading, saxophone lament - "Stranded in Space" is a relaxed trip into the galactic intangibles of "The Great Beyond."

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]]> We’re delighted to offer up the debut solo-single from Dap-Kings sax-man and long-time Daptone Family fixture, the peerless player with palpable provenance, Cochemea Gastelum. Recorded entirely in his humble bedroom studio, Cochemea masterfully blends the drum-machine-laden soul-explorations of artists like Shuggie Otis and Sly Stone, with the avant-garde, electric sax permutations of Eddie Harris. Side A, “Song Of Happiness,” finds Cochemea drawing inspiration from his Native American roots, via a homage to the late 19th Century Navajo song, Shi naashá – which translates to, I am going/walking around – and was written to commemorate the release of the Navajo people from internment at Fort Sumpter. Unlike most other Navajo songs, Shi naashá is almost entirely translatable, giving it a universal message that Cochemea interprets instrumentally. On Side B we have “Stranded in Space.” Propelled by the insistent pulse of a Maestro Rhythm King and fortified by Cochemea’s pleading, saxophone lament – “Stranded in Space” is a relaxed trip into the galactic intangibles of “The Great Beyond.”

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