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Ttoccs Rekarp
Don’t bother trying to make sense of the name. TTOCCS REKARP (pronounced tox rekarp) is a name Daniel Guaqueta made up when he was 12, when the project first began. Almost two decades later, and TTOCCS REKARP is becoming something of a Jackson fixture. Guaqueta, the project’s only main member and also the drummer for Wooden Finger and Questions in Dialect, uses a music aesthetic he sharpened at that young age: record with anything, whenever. The result is a sonic mash-up of the electronic, the proverbial, the new, the replaced and the a capella.
“I think everything makes music,” Guaqueta says. “I often whistle with birds, listen to the rhythm of my engine.”
Guaqueta’s whistles and hums have led to boxes of recordings, most of which no one has heard. On some, he has converted old Bell Biv DeVoe tapes into new songs. On others, popcorn tins and wire hangers harmonize in new tunes.
“I would also scratch records and play them through a tape recorder, switch the tapes around and re-record them,” Guaqueta says. “It was my experiment in music since I wasn’t classically trained.”
These days you can find him on stage with a dozen or so other musicians collaborating in the live incantation of TTOCCS REKARP. Or check out his latest offerings on MySpace.
Casey Parks(2007, Artists to Watch in 2007)
