Who We Are:

Over the last decade, Wesafari has evolved from Rick Wright’s solo Boston bedroom recordings to a full fledged Seattle-based band.  Wesafari’s unique sound and eclectic arrangements have been heard on radio and in mid-size venues throughout the Northwest. Their ever-expanding original sound blends accessible pop with experimental sounds and arrangements, somewhere between electro-rock and vocal heavy alt-folk. 

The band’s dynamic live sets feature colorful vocal harmonies and distinctive instrumentation including guitars, drums, synths, and and world instruments. Their creative, integrated performances (the band members have been known to trade instruments onstage, often mid-song) set them apart from the average rock show.

Where We Came From:

Rick Wright, Wesafari’s creator, began playing in local bands as a teenager in his hometown of Pittsburgh, eventually joining brother Andy Wright in popular punk band Anti-Flag. Wright moved to Boston and began recording songs under the name Wesafari while at Berklee College of Music in 1999. With this new project, he focused his musical expression into a blend of his earlier punk and lo-fi influences with current avant-pop and alt-folk inspirations, exploring themes of fragmenting relationships and environmental decay.

Where We're Going:

The band is set to release their second official album, Sea Survivors, in November 2010. The record’s mixture of thick vocal harmonies and glitchy electronic elements laid over danceable, contemplative rock songs put them somewhere between Radiohead, Spoon, Foals, Grizzly Bear, Caribou, and Wilco and the Shins.

With ever-expanding technologies, we are constantly inundated with the sights and sounds of the media – new music, old music, news, movies, blogs, web sites, commercials, video games…the list is never ending and the impact, profound.

Wesafari is an exploration of this impact – of how each of us is affected by this constant cycle of information, and how everyone absorbs this input – recycling it to create some new experience… something uniquely their own, but inevitably watermarked by our surroundings.

 

Instrumentation

Baine Craft - Drums
Rick Wright - Winds, Vocals, Percussion, Keys, Guitar, Bass
Casey Alexander - Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Trina Mills - Vocals, Keys, Percussion