On this episode of Arts@360’s Alaska Originals we feature a band who blends psych-folk and hip-hop with classical themes. They’re an experimental chamber group that defies any notion of musical normativity. This is HARM.
Alaska Originals
Playboy Spaceman
A band whose style was once described as “gospel rock futuristic electronica magic.”
Yngvil Vatn Guttu with the Rob Cohen Trio
Yngvil Vatn Guttu doesn’t just make music. She makes music happen. Since the age of three, when she produced a note on a trumpet on her first try, Yngvil has been inexplicably attracted to the instrument. Little did she know just how much power it would exert over her. Nor just how much of that…
Goldwing
Goldwing is an experimental country rock band based in Juneau, Alaska. With Ben Higdon on electric guitar, Dan Desloover on bass, and Clay Good on drums, vocalist and guitar player Dan Kirkwood writes songs drawn from personal experience in the vein of traditional American music. Goldwing’s style, once dubbed “space country,” is fit for the…
Pamyua
These award-winning musicians showcase drum songs from the Inuit cultures of Greenland and Alaska. Pamyua’s vocalists bring “a blizzard of interlocking harmonies,” says Native People Magazine.
Native Jazz Duo
Award-winning musicians Ed Littlefield and Christian Fabian takes us on an intimate exploration of their unique jazz arrangements that artfully blend swing, bebop and funk with folk and native melodies.