Music
Marc T. Michael
Band With A Thousand Faces Collective soul searching with Beats Antique
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HE STORY BEGINS, AS SO MANY DO, WITH A RENOWNED BELLY dancer approaching her manager (brother to one of the five greatest drummers of all time according to Rolling Stone) about producing an album. When Miles Copeland gave his thumbs-up to the project, Beats Antique (Dave Satori, Zoe Jakes and Tommy Cappel) got to work recording Tribal Derivations. From that moment on, it has been clear that they are less a band and more an arts collective working in mixed media to produce an experience that celebrates humaniy’s love affair with music.
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Through their transculturalism they become the living embodiment of the very thing they pay homage to, the ancient storyteller.
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For the sake of finding them in the record store Beats Antique might be called “world music,” but labels are limiting—too often an otherwise mediocre band will throw in a few ethnic instruments and a folk song or two and dub themselves “world music,” when what they really are is a thin and watery pastiche of the tradition they mean to represent. This simply isn’t the case with Beats Antique. The band might more accurately be described as “music of the world.” In a phone interview with Dave Satori, he explained that one of the basic motivations of the band and its concept is to act as a bridge to culture, a way
for listeners to experience a mélange of musical styles to which they would otherwise never be exposed. This isn’t just talk on Dave’s part; he has put his time in traveling here and abroad, including a tour of Nigeria and other parts of West Africa. Instead of bringing home the usual complement of cheap trinkets and souvenirs, Satori brought home musical traditions as old as humanity itself, incorporating these in to the soundscape of the band. This would be no easy feat were it not for the formidable talent of percussionist Tommy Cappel, the Berklee graduate whose credentials are simply too numerous to list here. Suf-
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