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Earth People

Active since: December, 2000

In March 2001, a group of multi-talented musicians and friends premiered Waking the Living, a television broadcast performance, and the free-form music group Earth People was born. Deeply rooted in almost every major musical tradition, ancient and modern, the members of Earth People have combined to form the vanguard of the modern avant-garde. Earth People's music constantly evolves, taking a new form and direction with every "cosmic offering." They have been dubbed "local legends" in New York City, and All About Jazz New York has praised their latest release, Now Is Rising; "What a CD! ..

Jason Candler

Bang! from New York City

By Earth People

Label: Undivided Vision
Released: 2007
Track listing: Breaking the Malaise (8:59)
Bojangles (8:16)
Time To Vote! (5:58)
Talking Drum Interlude (5:58)
A New Arrival (1:37)
Simply Simple, Isn't It? (12:06)

Now is Rising

By Earth People

Label: Undivided Vision
Released: 2005
Track listing: Red Clay
Small Distraction Mass Confusion
Now is Rising
M Train Samba
Time to Vote!
Sweet Peas
Draft Dodger

Earth People: Now is Rising

by Florence Wetzel
October 18, 2005

It's time to welcome another offering from Earth People, one of the most innovative and exciting groups on today's avant-garde scene. The group excels once again with the absolutely fresh Now is Rising, a soulful amalgam of sound that showcases its versatility and formidable gifts. This incarnation includes Andre Martinez on drums and percussion, Jason Candler ...

Earth People: Simple... Isn't It?

by Rex Butters
June 1, 2004

Characterizing themselves as “the psychedelic free music experience,” Earth People formed in 2001 after performing together in what would have been a one-time-only TV appearance. In addition to a core of André Martinez, Doug Principato, and Jason Chandler, the band also includes a who’s who of New York musicians, including Karen Borca, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, ...

Earth People: Sky Readers

by Florence Wetzel
January 19, 2004

If the cold weather is keeping you away from the clubs, you can still experience the excitement of a live performance with Sky Readers. The disc captures the art of improvisation, the high wire act that occurs when a song writes itself through musicians and their instruments. And with Earth People, a group composed of skillful ...

Simple... Isn't It?

By Earth People

Label: Undivided Vision
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Birthright
2. Bojangles
3. Simple ... Isn't It??
4. Breaking the Malaise

Sky Readers

By Earth People

Label: Undivided Vision
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Magical Flower (Horus the Red Travels Backwards) (41:22)
2. It's That Simple (10:33)

Earth People: Simple...Isn

by Terrell Kent Holmes
March 11, 2003

At one point on the title cut of Simple...Isn't It??, the latest CD by Earth People, the band's enigmatically-named singer, M, purrs, "Would you like...the usual? I didn't think so!" That contempt for the mundane exemplifies this vibrant work of spiritually driven, boundary-busting cadre music. The group's debut CD, Waking the Living, covered some of the ...