Kristofer and Friends
Welcome to Roatan

Welcome to Roatan is an eclectic song collection featuring original compositions and arrangements. It features many styles, each one of them completely original.

It features finger-style calypso/punta, a Nicaraguan folk song, haunting Spanish guitar melodies, songs of celebration and love songs. There is also a Roatan blues "Rainy Season blues" and a country-ranchero waltz “ Bad Bad Whiskey”. There is also a bit of salsa with mambo and guanguanco rhythms in “Dolphin Dance” and “Circling Sharks”. “Dia Lindo” or beautiful day, is a musical pastoral of Roatan. There is an Edgar Allan Poe poem, “El Dorado” set to music and finally a tropical celebration of life in paradise “Welcome to Roatan”.

The musicians who perform on this recording are from various parts of the Americas and come from various cultural backgrounds, each one bringing something distinctive to the sound. On the hand drums and percussion are Lu Lu, German, and Marcos. On the lead guitar Jose a.k.a. "El Catracho". The bass is held up with the strength of Guillermo “Pilo” Cano and Eugenio Guzman of Honduras and Chile respectively. There is a guest harmonica player who is a bit of a Roatan legend: Chicago ex-pat, "Big"Bob Rieman. And finally, vocals and guitars performed by Kristofer.

A wide range of combined talents creates the musical canvas which guarantees something original and refreshingly new.

Kristofer has a new C.D. in the works that should be released in 2009.