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The meaning behind Chez Nobody
Mon/May/18 2009
Antiguo Autómata Mexicano’s Chez Nobody EP is released this week. It has been slowly gathering support from the likes of influential radio stations like N.Y.’s WFMU and Urb Magazine just said that the album is crazy, bizarre and beautiful. Cool, but what the heck does the name of the album mean?, according to AAM’s Angel Sánchez Bórges “Chez Nobody is the name of the hall where young people went to dance in Absolute Beginners, the 80‘s film by Julien Temple. The film tells the story of how corporations take over the culture that is generated in the streets and return it as a commodified teen novelty. A tale about of the end of popular culture substituted by the ‘modernism’ of institutionalized interventions. Chez Nobody is the place of no one and everybody, of this and of that, a place where languages fuse and where the need for experiences emerge. A place where all the possible experiences in the world are immediate and forever”. AAM imagined the Chez Nobody ep as an alternate soundtrack for that place.
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AAM's "Chez Nobody" Pre-Order
Tue/March/10 2009
Antiguo Autómata Mexicano’s new EP, Chez Nobody, is now available on Compact Disc for pre-order at DARLA. And guess what? it is only $8.00 bucks for close to sixty minutes of cosmic kraut minimal mayhem; more bang for your money. And well, if you don’t care for nice graphics and physical media anymore, you can also buy the digital download at iTunes, eMusic, Beatport or Necodo. And well, if you are poor or don’t like “buying” music and your only possession is a laptop with wi-fi you can always listen to the stream of Chez Nobody at Last.fm. Anyway, you’re golden.
"Si Me Duermo... choco" reviewed.
Mon/March/09 2009
Here is a roundup of reviews for R. Mendoza’s latest album, “Si Me Duermo... choco”. Textura.org, writes that “[t]hroughout this rather distinctive album, Mendoza assembles layer upon layer in the tracks, with vocals, beats, electronics, guitars, and bass built into immense atmospheric structures that exemplify the loop-based repetition associated with dance music.” URB thinks the recording falls short and that the album “could have been influential to our sonic understanding, colliding with our own interpretation of dreams as an encounter of life-altering ramifications, all the while remaining entertaining and original.” The Aussies at Cyclic Defrost are more impressed, writing that “[i]f a sonic encapsulation of a lucid dream could be constructed it is here, masking highly developed technical prowess in a coat of remembrance and dreamlike intonation, updating the waking dream for the listener. Awakening to a dreamlike sound is a kind of paradox and to a casual listener it may seem that the conjunction of sound worlds woven together here are at least a contradiction, if not a riddle or paradox, but the beauty is held within the contradiction of form”. Wow!. Finally, the Frenchies at Autres Directions think that R. Mendoza has constructed a “singular electro-shoegaze” album. Do I need to remind you that the CD is available through DARLA?.