Alan Patrick Scheurman

Santiparro signifies “the lens that sees many things not usually seen.” This was the name given to Detroit songwriter Alan Scheurman by a Huichol ma’arakame (shaman) while taking a pilgrimage to the sacred desert lands known as Wirikuta – the place where the very first peyote cactus appeared in the Earth. Like the name indicates, Scheurman’s songs are delicate weavings of stardust and spirit, ether and earth, bringing to light the invisible through a magnification of the subtle space in between the breath and the beat of the heart. He knows how to tap into that ancient source and bring out the truth of his experience in a song that teaches as much as it plays with the listener. If one thing has been consistent in his career, it has been that place of truth as it has evolved from his own dark depression to the light of indigenous spiritual wisdom, clearly resulting from Scheurman’s affinity for and time spent with many indigenous elders and wisdom keepers of the Americas. For at least a decade, Scheurman’s songwriting has been vital and influential throughout the Detroit music community and beyond. In 2008, after seven years of leading one of Detroit’s most beloved and missed indie rock bands, Rescue, he released his debut solo album “Old Patterns” as a free download. Produced by Warren Defever of His Name Is Alive, “Old Patterns,” with its jazzy brass, airy soundscapes, and crisp, clear, vintage vocals quickly became recognized as one of the best psychedelic folk records to ever come out of Detroit, and though still somewhat under the radar, carries the power and prowess to stand up to any of the genre’s current poster children (i.e. Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, Mariee Sioux). After traveling extensively in 2009 in the United States and Mexico, Scheurman is currently at home working on his second solo album and first release as Santiparro. The new record, still untitled, will focus more on traditional instrumentation of the Americas with songs for the next age reflecting on his Castaneda-esque journeys with medicine people from Pine Ridge to Palenque.



SANTIPARRO | GET WELL SOON

5 song EP

a series of lo-fi bedroom recordings utilizing basic garageband software without any external interface or microphones. for the children. for the healing. for the evolution.

Available July 20th, 2010 via FM Dust



Download Old Patterns

"A low roaring feedback wraps the entire record in a fog, dense at some points, but often precious…haunting but somehow comforting. The ambience is that of an empty dark house in a light-wooded area of permanent night, pulsing with echoed memories. A chill wafts in through broken windows and the sad sonorous ring of a neglected piano shunted to a corner mixes with a lonely brass blaring like a lazy wind rolling over the roof, with tightly snapped acoustic strums like the raindrops falling through a network of floorboard cracks rippling the moonlight's reflection in the basement's gathered puddles." -DEEP CUTZ



".like Animal Collective live from the Honky Chateau. his passion for music and art has gone unscathed. Scheurman gets his ghost on, singing haunted freak-folk that would probably sound awesome during that one sweat lodge scene from the third season of Lost." -DETOUR



"Alan's unique vocal styling shuffles between hushed soft spoken realizations and the adventurous poignant visionary rants and ramblings witnessed in Akasha. Exploration continues throughout the tracks with time given to wandering yet somehow unifying horns and space for deep sacred meditations." -DETROIT AS A PORTAL



"The psychedelic-folk blueprints laid out in Rodriguez's classic "Sugarman" — a musician and his guitar out in front, with art-rock orchestration sculpted around it — basically comprise the foundation of Old Patterns.Scheurman's voice and guitar strumming are fragile and old-fashioned against the record's recurring ominous motifs of bassy horn blasts, reverb and noise. The juxtaposition, as strange as it may sound on paper, makes for a chilly but quite sweet record." -METROTIMES



alan scheurman/ 4th street trailer from SINGLE . BARREL . DETROIT on Vimeo.



H?åT + D??TH from Daniel DeMaggio on Vimeo.