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Both his parents were music teachers, so he grew up surrounded by music. Tommy Cappel was born in Fairfax, VA, in 1973. Jakes knew Sidecar Tommy from the Yard Dogs Road Show, a traveling hippie circus, and brought him into the band. Copeland gave him the green light and Beats Antique decamped to a recording studio to produce their first album, Tribal Derivations. Satori suggested a fusion of electronic experimental music and traditional belly dance tunes. Copeland was impressed and asked about an album of modern belly dance music. Satori produced the music for an instructional belly dance DVD by Rachel Brice. She introduced him to Miles Copeland, her boss at the Bellydance Superstars show. Kuti sat in with the band and inspired its 2007 album, Lagos by Bus, which Satori produced. The trip culminated in a performance at the New Shrine in Lagos, built by Femi Kuti, son of legendary Afro-beat progenitor Fela Kuti. with them and was part of their epic trip to Nigeria, traveling West Africa in another eco-bus. In 2003, Satori moved to San Francisco to joined the ten-piece Afro-beat ensemble Aphrodesia. They toured in an 'eco-bus' that ran on recycled vegetable oil, and they put out two albums, The Funnies and Masters of the Universe. There he was exposed to more world music, and during his last years at CIA he founded an experimental instrumental quartet called the Funnies. He discovered a connection between the music of North Africa and Mali, which fed his curiosity for world music.Īfter high school, Satori attended the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles and earned a B.A. When he was older, he picked up his grandfather's violin to learn Gypsy fiddle music as well as Indian and Middle Eastern styles.

His brother Mike played bass, he took up drums, and the lead instrument was an electric banjo played by a neighborhood virtuoso who was interested in exploring the odder sounds the instrument could make. At 17 he was playing with an experimental high-school garage band called Bubble Tribe while attending Burlington High School. He started playing guitar at the age of 12 after hearing his brother Michael pick up the instrument. All of the bandmembers have a long history of innovative music-making behind them.ĭavid Satori was born in Burlington, VT, on June 6, 1979. Their music incorporates Middle Eastern grooves, Balkan wedding music, flamenco, French Gypsy jazz, hip-hop, dub reggae, and other Eastern tonalities, all pulled together with electronica that won't put off club kids, but will appeal to world music lovers as well. The trio is composed of David Satori (guitar, saz, viola, and percussion), Sidecar Tommy Cappel (keys, toy piano, drums, and percussion), and Zoë Jakes (belly dancer, composer, and arranger). Beats Antique came together to make music for Miles Copeland's Bellydance Superstars extravaganzas.

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