“We're really in love with lush string sounds.
A full orchestra accompanied the group on 11 classic Thievery Corporation tracks. Thievery Corporation’s most recent album release, 2020's Symphonik, is a recording of a 2017 live performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Three years later, the group uprooted itself down to Jamaica to record two Kingston-meets-electronic downbeat releases, The Temple of I & I (2017) and the 2018 follow-up, Riches from the Temple. The band then changed things up with 2014's Brazilian bossa-nova buffet, Saudade. The pair started their music movement in 1995 in Washington, D.C.’s DuPont Circle area their nightclub, the legendary Eighteenth Street Lounge, eventually became the name of their label.įor its first 22 years, Thievery Corporation produced nine albums that crossbred genres.įrom the percussion power on their 1996 debut, Sounds of Thievery Hi-Fi, to the electronica gleam on Mirror Conspiracy in 2000, club favorites The Cosmic Game (2005) and Radio Retaliation (2008) and The Richest Man in Babylon (2002), the band's discography showcase its aptitude for styles like dubstep, jazz, dance music, rap, reggae, and Indian music.
“Our music represents music from around the globe, and it is very multicultural, and when you see us live you really get a sense of that experience,” says Garza.
Shakespeare wrote “all the world’s a stage” back in 1599, long before multiculturalism was a part of the zeitgeist.īut in 2021, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, the creators of veteran electronica duo Thievery Corporation, are busy bringing the world to the stages they perform on, including a show on Wednesday, December 15, at The Van Buren in downtown Phoenix.