Cochemea Brings His Transcendent Live Sound to the KEXP Studio in a Must-Watch Full Performance

Recorded at the KEXP studio in Seattle, this full performance from Cochemea Gastelum captures everything that makes him one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary spiritual jazz and Indigenous music, moving through five pieces including “Otros Mundos,” “Ancestros Futuros,” “Omeyocan,” “Pyramid of the Sun,” and “The Land Swallowed Them Whole” with a live band that includes Elizabeth Pupo Walker on percussion, Elenna Canlas on keys and vocals, Geoffrey Mann on drums, and Justin Kimmel on bass, drawing from a catalog that includes his critically acclaimed 2019 debut ‘All My Relations’ and its 2021 follow-up ‘Vespers at Dawn’, both released on Daptone Records, where Gastelum, a member of the Yaqui Nation and longtime member of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, has built a body of work rooted in Mesoamerican cosmology, ancient ritual, and the transformative power of the saxophone.