Antonio Davidson-Gomez's Album

Guadalevin Demo 10-14

Original sound sketch inspired by Mother Tonantzin, la Guadalupana, as she appeared to Juan Diego at Tepeyac. Recorded in 2008 with conch, bird calls, blocks, rattles, flute, teponatzli and drum. Text: English translation of the 16th Century Nican Mopohua.

Convivencia

Tonantzin

Sample of "Mediu Xhiga" - a zapotec wedding song and Fandango-Fandanguito, combining Mexican son jarocho, Spanish Baroque and North African percussion.

NFA_Gomez_1

•	Medley: Joyful Ascent/Jomocha/Soundtrack to “Latinos: The Changing Face of Washington”
•	2017, 2015, 2013 respectively
•	Joyful Ascent (P. Rubalcava/L. Bagladi); Jomocha (J. Hebèrt/arranged Hebèrt & Gomez); Theme from “Latinos: The Changing Face of Washington” (A. Gomez)
•	Three excerpts demonstrating range from Arabic percussion to early music and Afro-Caribbean. The first song is a meditational followed by an Hebèrt original combining jazz, early music and Celtic; and my own arrangement of bomba and reggaeton rhythms for a PBS documentary
•	Antonio Gomez - darbuka; riq; bendir, udu, congas, bells, guiro, cajon, shakers; Rubalcava – guitar; Bagladi – flute; Hebèrt – cello

NFA_Gomez_2

Arrangement of 17th century Spanish folias
Gus Denhard: Baroque guitar
Abel Rocha: Cuatro
Antonio Gomez: udu

Folia Tk1 Mix 2 10 - 9-17 Trío Guadalevín

A gentle and haunting rendition of the Mexican classic, La Llorona, featuring the voice and guitar of Abel Rocha, early music ornamentation on theorbo by Gus Denhard and ambient percussion with frame drum and udu by Antonio M. Gomez.

La Convivencia

La Llorona - Trío Guadalevín

El Sefarad was the name given to the Iberian Peninsula by the Jews who lived there well over a millenium before being expelled or forced into conversion by the Spanish monarchy in 1492. Music accompanied the families as they fanned across Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. Sung by Abel Rocha accompanied by Gus Denhard on oud and Antonio M. Gomez on pandero cuadrado, riq and shruti box.

Avram Avinu - Trío Guadalevín

If ever there was a theme song for Trío Guadalevín - which embodied its sound and its mission to bridge Mexico and the Mediterranean - this would be it. Three verses, composed of original decimas by Abel Rocha and Antonio M. Gomez describe a wandering musician, who carries in him the heritages of Indigenous America, Africa and the Muslims, Jews and Christians of Spain. Performed by trio in its essence, in a live rendition with no overdubs, Abel sings and plays guitar, Gus Denhard performs on Baroque guitar and Tony plays pandero cuadrado.

AAP 2018 Jack Straw

La diáspora en mi, canto de Guadalevín - Trío Guadalevín

Zapotec wedding song which Trío Guadalevín adapted to accentuate the "encuentro" between the Indigenous and European worlds by juxtaposing Meso-American percussion (teponatzli, huehuetl, etc.) with Baroque guitar, on either side of the voice and traditional guitar. Abel Rocha: voice and guitar; Gus Denhard: Baroque guitar; Antonio Gomez: teponatzli, huehuetl, rattles, cajón, nature effects and bird calls.

Jack Straw AAP 2015

Mediu Xhiga -Trío Guadalevín

This arrangement reunites two distant cousins: a centuries old Spanish fandango with a Mexican fandanguito in the son huasteco folk tradition. Here, we add a mix of Native American, African and Iberian percussion to signal the common roots of each. Abel Rocha: voice and quinta huasteca; Gus Denhard: Baroque guitar; Antonio Gomez: rattles, riq, cascabeles, frame drum, udu

Fandango/Fandanguito

Fandango/Fandanguito - Trío Guadalevín

The heart of Cuban music beats with a distinctive West African pulse. Rumba guaguancó is one of the core folkloric styles in this deep and admirable tradition of musical resilience to the ravages of a slave economy. I had the honor to study this style with Columbia del Puerto in Cardenas, Cuba. I'm not sure I do the legacy much justice, but Havana native Alejandro Fleitesvoffers a gorgeous interpretation of words by Pablo Milanes. Alejandro Fleites: voice; Antonio Gomez: tumba, dos tres, quinto, clave, shekere, catá.

The Guadalevín Project

Guaguancó "Los Caminos"

Los Caminos - Antonio Gomez and Alejandro Fleites

Get On The Bus is an original play by Milo Mowery commissioned for Tacoma Arts Live's Civil Rights Legacy Tour, which is performed in schools. It follows the story of contemporary youth who find inspiration for their own activism around immigration when they meet with one of the original Freedom Riders from the South. When I created the music for this play, I wanted it to reflect a sense of youthful energy from the 1960s and took a cue from the emerging Memphis sound, where multiracial groups of musicians had drawn from the well of African American music to advance then genres of R&B and Soul. I assembled music from the play from samples and loops in Garage Band.

GOTB

Get On The Bus (Closing Cue)

Percussionist specializing in Afro-Latin and Mediterranean music. Member of Tango del Cielo, Trio Guadalevin, Eurasia Consort, Pachanga Alert and Gary Stroutsos. Liturgical music for OCP, GIA and Liturgy Press.

Antonio M. Gomez

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