From New Tribe's Medicine Park album take a trip that starts in the slinky funky train and winds it's way through reggaesque choogles and ends up getting to know how funky one's own neighborhood. Like JJ Cale meets the Velvets.

Uninvited Guest/My Neighorhood

lead track of New Tribe's cosmic american music opus Love Field. Wake up and choogle along.

New Tribe - TIME TO GET UP

The New Tribe returns after a twenty year hiatus with new track Who Knows? Sparse and spacious, the track highlights the vocal harmonies of the brothers Sarmiento and the interweaving playing of the band. Exploring the distances and the unknown between people and the place where 2 voices make a third and the band becomes the fourth.

Who Knows? (single version)

a lo fi live recording from a mid 90s New Tribe show in Oklahoma.

1 New Reggae Blues live 94 or 95

Psyched out guitar interludes, soulful vocals, chunky grooves all meet on this New Tribe classic. Usually paired with album opener Stephen's Song. 
"everyone around me going crazy, at least I don't feel like the only one. Some people say it's cuz the moon is full, while other people blame it on the sun."
Procrastination is that devil on your shoulder. Tomorrow and someday never come. We say seize the day. We're all mad here.

Step Outside

New Reggae Blues

The New Tribe's "cosmic american" music is exemplified by this track Something New. Written in the mid 90s, now brought to life on the Tribe's debut LP Step Outside. Folky acoustic guitars, harmonicas, summery harmonies, and call and response vocals, meet to search for something new in this old world.

Something New

The New Tribe’s new ‘double A-sided’ Elevator/Light One Candle single is a vibrant and powerful platter of driving, groove-oriented pop, unlike anything else you’re likely to hear this fall. Signaling a new era for the band, the two songs embrace the group’s psychedelic American roots and create a vibe and sonic landscape that seems entirely fresh yet instantly familiar; hook-laden but experimental, concise but cosmic.

Side A, ‘Elevator,’ hisses into being with backward cymbals and disembodied voices that melt into Bo Diddley beats, soulful verses, and chant along choruses. On the vocals, brothers Adam (drums) and Eric (guitar) Sarmiento trade verses and harmonize on the choruses, highlighting some of the vocal versatility of the band. The middle section’s elliptically ascending arrangement creates a pleasant fugue state of mind. Raga-esque guitar work that nods to the solos of the early, grittier Jerry Garcia give way to a cloud of choral voices that rain down and evaporate up into the final raucous chorus and percussive coda. It’s a journey in miniature, an odyssey packed into 4 minutes and change.

Light One Candle, the side B track, kicks off with wobbly guitar chimes and a doo wop vocal figure that immediately takes up residence in the listener’s ear. The laid back groove and jazz chords of the song may bring to mind Thin Lizzy classics or the edgy quasi-disco of the late ‘70s Rolling Stones, but the lyrical content here speaks to the social and political challenges of the present moment. “God knows we’ve had enough of feeling that the world is heartless,” but “going down is how we rise above,” the Sarmiento brothers sing.

These two songs exemplify how music — soulful, mighty, colorful music — can empower the weary heart, enliven bodies weighed down with anxiety, and renew faith in the world and Life. This is music meant as a technology for Living. Songs that can make one’s body and one’s thoughts dance.

The New Tribe

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