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Artist
Alma Desnuda
12+ albums
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about
Alma Desnuda, with its eye-catching showmanship, is a 4-man band of kindred spirits whose diverse musical expression blends sincere vocal confessions, funk-drenched bass lines, earthy deep percussion, and ethereal overtones into an acoustically groovin’ cocktail of soul-awakening music. While ever-expansive and diverse in presentation, Alma Desnuda weaves an underlying thread of palpable energy and passion into every note they play, a palpability that touches your senses and brings you more deeply into contact with your world. Awaken the soul. Deriving their name from the Spanish translation of “Naked Soul”, Alma Desnuda spreads a poignant message of community and self-abandonment through the use of what they call ‘socially digestible capsules.’ Given their rapidly budding fan base after their award-winning single Walls, and with the release of their debut album Middleway, it seems as though everyone they encounter has been eating up these ‘capsules’ by the fistful. Back in 2002, before there was Alma Desnuda there were three guys from California, Paul Suhr, Joe Glaser and Chris Bryden, who met on a study abroad term in Cordoba, Spain. The bond they formed during that time was based on an unshakable passion for living life to its fullest. After spending the next five years following their own paths through various countries (Korea, Peru, Ukraine, and India, to mention a few), the three reunited in the Bay Area in 2007 and hooked up with national and world-touring bassist To
