GARCIA PEOPLES Nightcap At Wits’ End BEYONDBEYONDISBEYOND
“Oh, my sweetest muse/The flowers of our love will thrive”
IT takes a particular kind of confidence to name your band, however obliquely, after a primary influence and ignore the fact that it might forever define you. When guitarists and singer-songwriters Danny Arakaki and Tom Malach, plus drummer Cesar Arakaki, got together as Garcia Peoples in New Jersey over 10 years ago, they were youngsters knocking out Misfits and Minutemen covers, also very much on board with the Grateful Dead. But it wasn’t that band’s sound per se that made them fans, rather a shared interest in the power and possibilities of the longform jam, twinned with a commitment to their music’s
