.Aaron Carnes

This year’s Fusion Echoes at SJSU aims to showcase music’s dynamic nature and how it can be reinterpreted, altered and even expanded by adding visual elements to the sensory experience, creating a more fully engrossing odyssey.

The entire project also demystifies the artistic process. One doesn’t need to be locked up in their studio, separate from the world, to create meaningful art.

The variations on how tend to change the music experience, frequently boiling down to the distance between the performer and the guitar. Kaki and Tamar build so much from this small detail.

She’s performed with MC Hammer, Lalah Hathaway, Pete Escovedo, Raphael Saadiq and Peter Tork (of the Monkees). But when she performs her music, there is a joy to it that is contagious, even in that 30-second clip of “Right Side Up.” (AC)

Sitting at a Loston Harris concert feels a bit like having the man perform just for you. It’s like a conversation. A conversation with swagger and grace.

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