MUSIC
I started playing trumpet, guitar, and piano in the same year at the age of 10, and these are still the instruments I'm most fond of playing. Since then, I've played in brass bands, jazz bands, contradance bands, Brazilian ensembles, early music choirs, Balkan brass bands, rock bands, shapenote groups, cumbia bands, and I've toured around the United States, Brazil, Western Europe, Hungary, Croatia, Bulgaria, the Republic of Georgia, and Japan.
MISSION DELIRIUM
I co-founded Mission Delirium in 2013, and in early 2014 we were already opening up for our idols Rebirth Brass Band. In 2015, we embarked to Brazil and opened the first HONK! Rio Festival de Fanfarras Ativistas, and also recorded our first album (below). In 2017, we toured to France and Spain, and in 2019 we hit up New Orleans Mardi Gras before going to Hungary, Croatia, and Slovenia in the summer. I was lucky to have a receptive group of musicians to try a bunch of musical experiments, featured below.
I co-founded Mission Delirium in 2013, and in early 2014 we were already opening up for our idols Rebirth Brass Band. In 2015, we embarked to Brazil and opened the first HONK! Rio Festival de Fanfarras Ativistas, and also recorded our first album (below). In 2017, we toured to France and Spain, and in 2019 we hit up New Orleans Mardi Gras before going to Hungary, Croatia, and Slovenia in the summer. I was lucky to have a receptive group of musicians to try a bunch of musical experiments, featured below.
"Submission" by Andrew Snyder, an homage to New Orleans secondline, performed in 2017 in San Francisco.
"Tandy" by Andrew Snyder, a mix of Balkan harmonies and 12/8 Afro-diasporic rhythms, performed here at the HONK! Rio Festival in 2015
"Marablé," based on Afro-Brazilian rhythms from maracatu and candomblé, performed in 2019 in San Francisco.
"Feira do Mangaio," classic Brazilian forró arranged by Andrew Snyder, performed in 2015 in Rio de Janeiro.
Live in Rio, full-length album released in 2015
THE KAIZOKU
A strange rock band fronted by singer usually singing in Japanese--a style we called J-Prog. We released a full-length album in 2015 called SF Sadistic.
BAGUNÇO
In Rio de Janeiro, I spent two years as trumpet player for an experimental Brazilian band playing a mix of all kinds of genres, from the stage to the street, including a six-week tour in France and Italy. We recorded "Retirante" in a studio in Milan featuring footage from that trip, we also recorded an original samba recorded in Rio de Janeiro.
CALAFIA ARMADA
A cumbia band in the San Francisco whose name is an homage to the indigenous queen of California. In 2019, we released our first EP!
MERGE LEFT
The couple-duo, Andrew Snyder and Claire Haas, plays music from around the Americas with the rich beautiful sound of trombone and guitar. From tango and choro to jazz and folk, the duo plays both traditional music and original pieces.
OAKLAND STOMPERS
The Oakland Stompers Band plays the hot jazz of the early 1900s with the dance feel of an era when jazz made you move your feet.
COMPOSITION
"Bicycles" is a jazz tune mixed with melodic concepts from Hindustani music.
As a music student at Reed College, I was enamored with modern French composition, especially Debussy on whom I wrote my thesis. During that time, I wrote three pieces based on impressionist styles: "Graduation Waltz" and "Inundation" for piano, and "Sainte," a setting of a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé for soprano, viola, violin, and piano;
"Dense clouds" is my only attempt at an electronic dance tune.
SAXON AND THE SATISFACTIONS
My college band way back in 2010 and my first band recording project leading to this EP.
Art by Stacia Torborg
TIHAI
After college, I spent six months in India and learned a bit of sitar. Returning to Portland, I played in a fusion trio, which led to a masters thesis on North Indian fusion music at UC Berkeley. Here's our perfromance at Portland State University in 2010.
BRASS LIBERATION ORCHESTRA
The Bay Area protest brass band with which I played at many a protest and hooked me into the HONK! network, forever changing my musical and academic trajectory.
EAST BAY BRASS BAND
Bay Area brass mashup band.
COLOMBINA CLANDESTINA
The foremost bloco of Lisbon's recent street carnival carnival movement, formed around the values of feminism, diversity, and public space.
The foremost bloco of Lisbon's recent street carnival carnival movement, formed around the values of feminism, diversity, and public space.
FARRA FANFARRA
Brass band in Lisbon, Portugal that tours and engages in cultural exchanges all around Europe.
BUE TOLO
Brazilian carnival bloco in Lisbon, Portugal that brings a wide variety of Brazilian popular music genres to the streets of Lisbon.
Brazilian carnival bloco in Lisbon, Portugal that brings a wide variety of Brazilian popular music genres to the streets of Lisbon.
Art by Stacia Torborg
