Pacha Massive Live on KPFK’s Melting Pot: August 1, 2010
Pacha Massive out of New York City were the first in-studio guests for KPFK’s Melting Pot. Pacha Massive consists primarily of multi-instrumentalists and vocalists Nova & Maya, here joined by vocalist and flute player Monica. They’ve released a couple of records on Nacional, 2007’s All Good Things and 2009’s If You Want It.
In our interview we chatted about their love of Los Angeles, their distinctive mix of styles and sounds and a bit about the recording process. They also performed two songs, “Your Love” and “If You Want It” in our studio, with Nova and Monica on vocals, Nova on guitar, Monica on flute (ala Rahsaan Roland Kirk playing and singing!) and Maya on percussion which as you can see from the picture was improvised on the spot using one of our trash cans! Looking forward to bringing them back at a later date with the full band and hopefully a much better sound person (I simply don’t cut it as a sound man…)
Enjoy,
Michael
Great sound and gorgeous singer. Wow!
I'm really looking forward to bringing them back in the future with the full band. They're in LA quite a bit, so we'll keep our fingers crossed on that one and future performances.