verde3 : music + video aka "the insider"

Fotografia: Cesar Guerrero
Asistente de Fotografia: Kike Barona
Modelo: Diana Galan
Styling: Marcela Avila
2009 bogotá


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VERDE3 * OUR OWN VERY OWN VERDE3 RADIOSTATION COMING RIGHT UP YOUR ALLEY * & in the lab, preparing: new single "MEDIODÍA" and spanking new versions of the acclaimed "DOWNSTAIRS", "SALIR" & "PRIMAVERA"... ALSO: special treats: brazilian psychedelic covers from the late 60's: "BABY" (mutantes), "PAIS TROPICAL" (gal costa ... & jorge ben)
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long time no write on this v3 insider... the band grows ceaselessly we're happy about this!

we KNOW this is a nerdy thing to be doing. but then we've come to accept ourselves more.

jokes aside, happy to report the band as motivated and walking the talk.


please do read on read on. thanks...


LISTENING TO:
ikeda
plaid
snoopy theme




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pic by adriana salazar 2009

verde3.com
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los promo videos de 2009:


some time with no writing on the insider verde3 blog.
it's a little hidden but then not everyone will necessarily wish to read rant by a bandmember hehe. so we're not pushy, we leave it here for whoever stops by and is interested.

2008 and 2009 we ended up playing so much that now we're totally reahearsed and ready to make our second record.

will definitely keep you posted. listen to our new live tracks here:
http://www.myspace.com/verdetres
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VERDE3 UP TO:

* playing SXSW 2009 in austin:


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* full calendar of events:

* part of our relentless giging pace: *

febrero 14 sábado revolver bar bogotá
marzo 7 sábado in vitro bogotá
marzo 17 al 20 SXSW MUSIC + FILM + INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE, austin, texas
marzo 22 al 29 YALE UNIVERSITY (mapa teatro)
abril 16 jueves centro colombo americano bogotá
mayo 6 armando records bogota

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JUNIO 29 LUNES 12:45 mediodía:
FESTIVAL EL MALPENSANTE, Colegio Anglo Colombiano, Bogota
VERDE3 EN VIVO



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verde3.com

nuestra entrevista para vive.in, bogotá abril 2008.




mexico df, end of april 2008.

listening to:
st. etienne "foxbase alpha"
arctic monkeys "favourite worst nightmare"

walking around the corridors of hotel melia reforma, df. discussions and conferences on petroleum prices. protests across the street in front of torre caballito, where the whole issue is being discussed. the tv shows a food crisis coming up. in the states people are selling their valuables for fuel. there's petrol panic in the uk. "cuida el agua" signs everywhere here.

taking a breath from the cynism of colombian current events. getting a hold of the cyninsm of the mexican ones. i'll say "no comment" but not beacuse i don't want to think about our problems. it just gets way too overwhelming. will the cities implode before 2 years? doris salcedo keeps working from bogotá. some move out, some stay. can this dichotomy be made into song? "sur o no sur" tells it lucidly...

then there's "foxbase alpha" by st. etienne. uk end of the 80s, when the brits discovered extasy and gave each other backrubs (allison goldfrapp took early e to the sounds of ¨the big sky" by kate bush at the time). something so contrarily ingenue. why isn't "nothing can stop us" the new dancefloor? it sounds like the way ahead in a sense. we mean the song, not the e... we don't do it... but then think: a sheer wave of musical and sonic optimism that could lead you to proactivity. the dettachment required before a fully conscious series of actions.



and then there's the arctic monkeys. so yes, what's the point in reviewing an album not new anymore, what's new to be said? that domino records used to make records like "mobile safari" by the pastels in the 90s, and now after ferdinand and juana molina and the gorgeous and unlikely lightspeed champion, they're even making some of the best indie pop records. the energy, so decidedly postpunk, the intent is so sincere you can really tell why is it that keane never convinced you fully, a hideous comparison but not so off the mark i think. this referring to both the monkeys and domino.

FOR NOW:
SOMEONE IN LAST.FM CREATED TWO NODES FOR LAST.FM, WE DON'T KNOW WHO THESE KIND PEOPLE ARE!!!

WE WERE TAGGED "PERFECTION POP" AND THE LIST OF ARTISTS IS DAUNTING HAHA!
like: peter, bjorn and john, delgados, luna, lou reed, camera obscura...

i wrote this up, then realised it had to be in spanish. i'll blog it here for now.
we have a PICTURE of our pre show state dec. 5. we'll upload t once olrando plugs the camera after long hours of much deserved sleep!



(para LAST FM)
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bueno la iremos editando...

first, foremost: thanks very much indeed for this. we don't know you and we think you're lovely people really.

sharing a tag with such a list will never unheeded be...

big love and respect to you!

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**** VERDE3 DECEMBER 2007

* the record's out. WHAT!
belief and sleep deprivation (obviously interrelated) found us with the record in boxes on time for the cd release concert.

* the record's out. WHERE?
we're running loads to put it out everywhere anybody wants us to sound, basically.
in bogotá:
la ropería (k7 calle 55 esquina)
exopotamia (biblioteca luis angel arango)
any shoppe wanting of us!
more to come on e-places...

* cd release concert report
nutshell: we never signed autographs ever before! ok diana was asked for one whilst giving out our first 3000 (of 7000) flyers with marcos felipe at the björk concert...

* listening to:

JAVIERA MENA
PIANO MAGIC
YMCK














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VERDE3 LAST.FM BIO

* diana sang as vhs videotape in 2002 teatro colón bogotá. the name lands november 2003. diana plays champi's old old minimoog. champi plays a rick 360. we're doing like 1000 weekly hits on our myspace. we're honoured to be tagged perfection pop. we love taping our shows so much the record's got 3 live tracks from the teatro colón bogotá years.

* verde3 wants to play buenos aires + santiago next year. fair enough: rosario bléfari gave us her direct blessing to do a tune of hers live and for javiera mena we were authorised to play a tune live so kindly by her label índice virgen...


SHOWS PLAYED
* six years colón bogotá.
* 2007 shows bogotá: colón, jorge elíecer gaitán, libre de bogotá.

BOGOTÁ FM RADIO:
* 99.1 FM RADIÓNICA:
three singles (all in the cd) released starting a year ago. "EL AZUL DEL CIELO" (live colón 2004), "VIERNES POR LA NOCHE", "MAR," the latter currently in rotation.

ABOUT THE CD "RADIO VERDE3 VOLÚMEN UNO"
* 3 LIVE COLÓN BOGOTÁ TRACKS, THREE STUDIO TRACKS, 1 REMIX, 1 KARAOKE
* includes award winning track "ANGELITO", studio album track "MAR", and the "MARGARITA" rendition of colón bogotá 2006.

*** VERDE3 PRESENTA SU NUEVO SINGLE "MAR" ***
www.myspace.com/verdetres




diana galán sings and moogs (photo Nobara Hayakawa)


***** R A D I O V E R D E 3 *****

el esperadísimo primer trabajo de VERDE3

será lanzado el miércoles 5 de diciembre 8pm.

TEATRO LIBRE CHAPINERO
Cra 11 No 61-80
Tel. 2171988


boletas en tuboleta.com


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***** invitaciones picando aquí.

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VIERNES POR LA NOCHE
letra: champi (carlos benavides)
voz: diana galán
corregida por diana galán + champi
música: checho (sergio medina) + champi
programaciones: checho medina + champi
producción: verde3
mix: orlando perez rosso + champi
(c)(p) 2006/2007 verde3/fonoespacio
todos los derechos reservados

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me despierto y a veces ya ni sé
si hoy es lunes, martes, miércoles o qué
me levanto, son diez para las tres
nada que comer, la casa está al revés

me doy cuenta que el llanto se acabó
las lágrimas de amor
las ha secado el sol
solo quiero bailar hasta morir
reirme porque sí
y celebrar al fin

desconecto, prefiero no pensar
porque hoy yo tengo ganas de bailar.

cuando pienses por un momento en mí
nunca olvides lo que he sido para ti
hoy te cuento que al fin me siento bien
ha pasado el tiempo y el dolor también

me doy cuenta que te he dejado atrás
y que ya nunca más
podremos regresar
tantas cosas quedaron por vivir
y ahora que me fui
igual debo seguir

pondré un disco y todo pasará
porque hoy es viernes por la noche y ya.

me despido, ya me tengo que ir
a pintarme el pelo rojo y a salir
pondré un disco y todo pasará
porque hoy es viernes por la noche y ya.



fotos por lucho berni
www.berfoto.com

champi onstage with minimoog, teatro colón bogotá 2003, pic by paloma villamil

thinking of:
string ensembles
jazz composition
experimental song
modern psychology
pili, john, mia!
susana san juan
pedro páramo
love
acausality
joni mitchell: "the hissing of summer lawns"

listening to:
joanna newsom
deerhoof
battles
hot chip
jeff buckley "live at sin-é"


what! a string quartet! i'm supposed to be this rock kid no? "champi the guitar guy." funny because people who met me in my early twenties remember me as the kid with the synthesisers (minimoog included) so they scratch their heads when they come to a new wave gig and we're rocking out with verde3. then some former students of mine will see me in the "latinofutura superbailables" parties with pepe plata djing reggaeton, dub and cumbia villera. or with the same pepe plata at new wave gatherings djing 80s stuff. or with the minimalheadz twisting around the beatz or turntabling.

then you find out that the first version of verde3 was called "verde" and involved a string septet back in 1997... so yeah the string quartet, a return to the roots of my first original composition ensemble format... this time with a laptop (or not) and a will to chant my lungs out on the microphone, if singing from your gut indicates anything...

the string quartet can be seen as an instrument in itself. you have two violins, a viola and a cello. you have four people you develop a working and personal realtionship with. you learn and you learn. you laugh at their jokes. you inmerse in their body language, sound, musicality, all like serum in the vein. a festival of harmonics and a human assemblage. i'm still in awe because this quartet are world-class and said they'd been looking for me to see if i could do some electronics for their pieces, and that they are interested in popular musics too. wow. i sigh because i've missed strings like an old true friend. i can't wait to begin writing and meeting!

some of the dearest moments ever were spent hanging out and working in boston with andrea deboer, flavio gaete, lorenzo peris and kristen odle. the first string quartet "when we were very young..." we did a play in boston 1997/98 with my dear sister pilar you know, an adaptation of "pedro páramo" with live strings and ektachrome subtitles and 16mm black and white projections... so glad i'm in touch with most of the crew, particularly with emilie blezat who is a gorgeous babe and works as producer of films and advanced theatre in paris, maria chenut who is also a gorgeous babe and lives and works in galicia, and mauricio rico (16mm film operator) who actually plays in verde3 today !!!!!! pili was susana and champi was pedro, pili acted and pedro read text. a wonderful achievement. it's decently recorded in audio too!

so from a minimoog to piano to synths and guitars to strings to recording and mixing to djing to running an academic unit to teaching to laptopping, to rocking, and now back to strings. always singing. always onstage. and always recording!


minimoog by heiko mehring, from www.moogworld.com

i see it like this: if music is multiple, if style has been left behind, if the public is diverse in what they listen to, the musician can be that as well: a chameleon in musical style, in instrumental approach, in working format, in the use or setting of the sounds created. music is music. sound is sound. it's all speakers placed or boxes tossed around for people to hear, see, feel, some plugged, some not. quite simple to me.


coincidences between quantum mechanics and the modern school of social psychology are impressive. two coincident ideas struck me particularly: one, how personality and reality in these new models has been admitted to be changing, modifiable, dynamic and alas, something you can create (eg the power of thought, eg the i-ching: "by one's thoughts one commands"). and two, the resulting importance of a proactive role in the individual in terms of the construction of his own (dynamic) personality and actions.

our modern world has become worryingly the opposite of this gorgeous array of revolutionary thought: the mis-use of the world "reality" by reality tv and its imposition of unchangeable "realness," obeying the rules for money. the uniforms of style and thought, all those "who isn't with me is against me," the mention of such thoroughly backward terms such as "the axis of evil" in a world which has already come to the scientific demonstration of the existence of god (quantum mechanics, gilles deleuze). the arts will squirm and the arts will sidestep, the arts will be la piedra en el zapato, continue to generate questions, thought, ideas.

kisshug.