NonSeq: Aquíestoy

Aquíestoy (Carlos Snaider) – guitar, vocals, synthesizers
souschef – synthesizers
Rocky Martin – drums
Mario Layne Fabrizio – drums

Aquíestoy (Carlos Snaider). Guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, singer and rapper. Aquíestoy, Spanish for “I am here,” is the name of his personal creative laboratory, with music exploring encounters of the present moment through intimate and elemental expressions of sound, language, grooves and songs. Based in Seattle for the last five years, his musical background leads to sonic explorations at the nexus of Black American and Latin American music, electronica, meditative praxis and hip-hop. Since 2015, Carlos has been a member of the international performance troupe Ay Ombe Theatre, incorporating the creative system/philosophy Performance Autology into his work. Carlos co-leads the songwriting jazz quartet EarthtoneSkytone and experimental salsa band Eléré. He holds a Bachelor degree in Music and African American Studies from Harvard University.

In preparation of his forthcoming album “Multiverso”, Aquíestoy (Carlos Snaider) is presenting a new configuration of trusted collaborators to enact Creative Music sound worlds with joy as a guiding technology. Working with traditional and syncretic forms, the Multiverso songbook explores diaspora, macro and microcosm, English and Spanish, being lost in translation, Silence, subjectivity, and the Higher Self. Aquíestoy’s musical trajectory has led him from composing and performing with bands, to recording most of the instruments on his album himself, to now having the unreleased recorded music informing how he orchestrates his live bands. Sous chef (Antoine Martel) brings an element of textural and performative sensitivity on synths and electronics, while Mario Layne Fabrizio and Rocky Martin bring drum languages that span the Americas. This is the first time that Snaider is presenting himself with his artist name Aquíestoy, with the NonSeq series being a trusted space for experimentation.

Curated for Nonsequitur’s NonSeq series by Noel Brass, Jr.

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