Welcome to the Schedule page! Here you will find information about our upcoming performances, and also information about our new performance projects. The Electrocarpathians can be seen live at the Turquoise (see below)! We are also currently rehearsing the music from our new CD, Panamerican Shanty, and will be performing it live soon! To listen to music samples from the album (and, if you like, order the CD or singles), follow this link to CD Baby:

Panamerican Shanty uses traditional sea shanties and film noire-inspired originals to tell the story of the Nakai Nakai, a fabled whale-tooth scrimshaw piece. Poetry and narration, partly in Spanish, give the perspectives of a tango dancer, a late-night disc jockey, a private eye, and various mariners, while the singing of a chorus of rum-lit sailors
provides an abstract commentary.

The instrumental palette is also unique: string bass is the main color in this opus,
joined by bouzouki, drums, and trumpets. Piano and guitar are used sparingly, while antique bongos and Irish whistle add some culturally specific hues. Sounds of marine animals (mainly humpback whales, seagulls, and sea lions) are integrated into some of the pieces.

As music, this album is a unique combination of sea shanties and original fifties-style jazz. The sea shanty, a type of folk music which flourished in the nineteenth century, is itself a hybrid. On merchant ships, West African work songs blended with British and Irish melodies and verses, forming a rich tradition which gradually died out, as steam power and electricity reduced the need for coordinated group muscle. The album's nine sea shanties are arranged in a style reminiscent of British folk rock bands of the late 70's, such as Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention. These pieces are connected by original music which recalls the abstract, sparse tension of film noire scores and 'exotica' LPs.

Schedule 2010

	The Electrocarpathians will be at the Turquoise Sunday, August 15th, at 8 pm (the paper has us listed to start at 7:30, but the management wants us to start at 8 pm instead) No cover charge! Jeff Pekarek on bouzouki Beatriz Basile on bass Mark Danisovszky on accordion Richard Tibbitts on flute Francesca Savage on violin The Turquoise, aka the Turquoise Cafe Bar Europa, is at 873 Turquoise Street (north end of Pacific Beach) http://www.theturquoise.com/home.htm The Electrocarpathians formed in 1988 to further the fusion of East European styles such as Klezmer, Polka, and Czardas with classic Rock and Latin music. They performed at Drowsy Maggie's throughout the cafe's existence. They appeared regularly at the Better Worlde Galeria until that venue closed in 1995. Their first album, 'Umpires of Straw', released in 2001 by Global Village Music (New York), was subtitled 'Slavic Music Collected in the Midwest performed by California Surfer Gypsy Punk Rockers'. 'Fighting for Harmony', their second release (2005), was fueled by a continuing search for Byzantine roots in dance music originating in South California and Tijuana.