GuavaBelly

Music – San Diego

Guava belly calls itself a rock band only because no better description comes to mind. However such a short title does a disservice to the range of musical styles and influences that have been woven into the mass of noise GuavaBelly calls songs. We the members of GuavaBelly see no reason that one band can't write music both loud and soft, fast and slow, syncopated and straight. Blues, rock, country, funk, hip-hop, jazz, swing, punk, disco, opera, rock-opera, jungle and film music all have their place. We see no reason to confine our influences and our work to a single genre. In this day and age when the internet places the discography of all artists of the industrialized world at our fingertips, GuavaBelly sees no reason that a band shouldn't listen to all the sounds of the world and re-interpret all that we hear into our own expression. Even if sometimes that expression is a tongue-in-cheek rap about anthropogenic climate change. That is the sound we create. In the interests of brevity, we call it 'rock'. The four members in the band have traveled very different journeys and have four different voices and visions lending our music a richness and tension that we find lacking in the songs we hear on the radio. That's why we write our own.