About:
SHAKE YOUR PEACE! is a musical act created by multidisciplinary artist Gabriel Singh Domínguez (Studio Ecotopia), currently based in Central New Jersey (previously Utah, and the San Francisco Bay Area),
SHAKE YOUR PEACE! plays "whup music"– a rock & roll hybridization of: Afro-Latin and Caribbean rhythms, bluegrass fiddling, gospel choir, marching band percussion, and ecotopian perspectives.
photo credit: Rachel Znerold
Since 2005 SHAKE YOUR PEACE! has experimented with touring by bicycle (6 tours and counting) and by foot (3 tours and counting), and amplifying concerts with a bicycle-powered sound system (pedaled by volunteers from the audience).
In 2007 SHAKE YOUR PEACE! co-founded, along with Rock the Bike, the award-winning Bicycle Music Festival in San Francisco.
In 2018 SHAKE YOUR PEACE! launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to complete their second album "Whup Music".
2018 Kickstarter video for "Whup Music"
Velo Visionaries - Gabe Dominguez
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Albums:
SHAKE YOUR PEACE!'s first album "Sing It As You Please" was released in 2006 to universal critical acclaim from the 3 people who played on it. It was recorded in fiddler Chris Jacoby's living room in Salt Lake City using a single mic pointed up at the ceiling in the center of the room, with Chris' infant daughter's sock stuck over the top like a smurf hat to act as a windscreen. It might be that tiny socks make microphones sound better, or worse. See what you think.
13 years, 6 bike tours, and 3 walking tours later in the Spring of 2020, the second album "Whup Music" was finished and posted on this website, as well as on SYP!'s Bandcamp page. Those who noticed, apparently dug it. It was all set to be "officially released" on streaming services and supported by a proper tour with the marching-band-size version of SHAKE YOUR PEACE! that's featured in our original show Ecotopia Now! but then March 2020 happened. It's now slated to be triumphantly released sometime...later (need to rebuild the band in New Jersey)!
The Name:
Over the years SHAKE YOUR PEACE! has performed in a variety of iterations, from solo act to 14-piece band, and with many different wonderful musicians. In all years, and in every iteration of the project, the name has almost always been stylized in the same loud-ass way: all-caps with an exclamation point at the end. Because - HEY!
SHAKE YOUR PEACE! is the make/belief of Studio Ecotopia