aprilfishes Rupa & the April FIshes San Francisco Four years, festivals and village concerts on three continents, two previous albums, several languages from Hindi to Tzotzil to French, many musical traditions, and countless moments of joy, sorrow, loss, and transformation were the construction materials that came together for Rupa and the April Fishes’ riveting new album Build. This collaboration with brilliant producer Todd Sickafoose travels the long road from solitude to solidarity in both directions. The band's first album Extraordinary Rendition examines love from many angles, with lyrics mostly in French; the second Este Mundo traces the plight of migrants crossing borders, largely in Spanish; Build is their first album primarily in English. Its twelve songs arise from this particularly tender moment of global upheaval, from the collapse of capitalism and false democracies to the rise of populist movements from Tunisia to Chile to Athens to Wall Street. Playing live to varied audiences around the world has been the best way to carry out their mandate of learning how to see what is invisible and combat widespread social demoralization, the source that feeds these songs. The musicians, Aaron Kierbel and Safa Shokrai, Misha Khalikulov and Mario Alberto Silva, came from all over the world and converged in San Francisco to become the April Fishes with ringleader Rupa whose Hindustani roots settled in California. In their work together, musical languages converge from around the world; from punk to indie rock, from reggae to raga to rockabolly, chanson to cumbia, from Malian guitar patterns to mournful duduk melodies. In other times and places musical traditions have met to forge a sound that is more insistence than resistance; this band, this album, belong to that long tradition of rebel music. This music is strictly organic, nuclear-free, post-national, many-headed and decidedly unclean. aprilfishes’s popular tracks Rupa & the April Fishes - "gone" by aprilfishes published on 2012-09-12T19:39:59Z neruda by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:44:28Z l'elephant by aprilfishes published on 2010-07-03T20:04:08Z culpa de luna by aprilfishes published on 2010-07-03T18:31:10Z c'est moi by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:44:09Z Weeds by aprilfishes published on 2013-02-09T15:33:59Z trouble by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:41:16Z Rupa & the April Fishes - "build" by aprilfishes published on 2012-07-20T20:17:23Z Eena Meena Deeka by aprilfishes published on 2019-03-21T15:44:46Z la linea by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:43:21Z la linea by aprilfishes published on 2010-07-03T19:52:51Z Stay by aprilfishes published on 2019-03-21T15:46:59Z la estrella caída by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:43:16Z la rose by aprilfishes published on 2010-07-03T19:05:01Z este mundo by aprilfishes published on 2010-07-03T19:10:18Z Water Song by aprilfishes published on 2019-03-21T15:19:53Z (la frontera) by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:41:31Z Lay My Head Down by aprilfishes published on 2019-03-21T15:20:13Z Growing Upward by aprilfishes published on 2019-03-21T15:33:25Z culpa de la luna by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:41:10Z (el camino del diablo) by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:44:08Z por la frontera by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:48:36Z Heathen by aprilfishes published on 2019-03-21T15:35:04Z soledad by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:43:40Z espero la luna by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:45:54Z (la frontera) by aprilfishes published on 2010-07-03T18:51:05Z Where You From by aprilfishes published on 2019-03-21T15:14:12Z Frontline by aprilfishes published on 2019-03-21T15:18:48Z Rain Come Home by aprilfishes published on 2019-03-21T15:34:36Z soy payaso by aprilfishes published on 2016-06-23T16:41:32Z