Quiet Orchestra is a Los Angeles-based ensemble that champions freedom and expression through music. In March 2007, a collection of musicians with jazz, rock and indigenous folk backgrounds met for the first time in an East Los Angeles studio. During the next two days, they recorded a collection of interpretations and improvisations featuring two guitars, two keyboards, two drummers, a bass, ceremonial Batá from Cuba, a Kunchin singer, a glockenspiel choir – and everyone singing. A collective twenty-plus members and growing, Quiet Orchestra exists to bring diverse musicians together and engage new frontiers of sound.
Aaron Arntz - keyboards Marcel Camargo - guitar Nels Cline - guitar Angel Figueroa - Itótele Maestro Lázaro Galarraga - Iyá / vocals Barbara Gruska - drums Zach Harmon - drums / tabla Gabe Noel - bass Jasmine Orpilla - vocals Bobby Wilmore - Okónkolo John Wood - keyboards