APRIL 2008
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.
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.
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