Calexico (group)

See also: Calexico

Calexico is a group of music oscillating between Mariachi S and planing music originating in the Arizona. Joey Burns and John Convertino are the two founding members of the group, they played together for the first time at Los Angeles in the group Giant Sand.

The origin of the name of the group comes from the town of Calexico, a city to California of the south bordering the Mexican border.

Antithesis of the states-unien group of violent rock'n'roll, uncultivated and folded up on itself, their music is alleviating and planing, and they do not hesitate to integrate elements of foreign culture (words in French, musics Latin, Mexican orchestras and Canadian musicians). A scientist proportioning of rock'n'roll, blues, jazz, of country and mariachi make their music indefinable in the world of the rock'n'roll.

Formation

  • Joey Burns (song and guitar);

  • John Convertino (battery and percussion);
  • Paul Niehaus (steel guitar);
  • Jacob Valenzuela (keyboards, trumpet and vibraphone);
  • Martin Wenk (accordion, guitar, Synthetizer, trumpet, vibraphone);
  • Volker Zander (low guitar).

  • Craig Schumacher

Discography

Albums (LP)

  • Spoke , Quaterstick Records, 1997;

  • The Black light , City Slang, 1998;
  • Road map , Our Soil, Our Strenght, 1999;
  • Travelall , Our Soil, Our Strenght, 2000;
  • Hot rail , City Slang, left on May 8th 2000;
  • Aerocalexico , Our Soil, Our Strenght, 2001;
  • Scraping , Our Soil, Our Strenght, July 2002;
  • Feast off wire , City Slang, left on February 11th 2003;
  • Garden ruin , City Slang, left April 2006;
  • Tool box, September 2007

EP

  • In the Kidneys (EP), with Iron & Wine, 2005

DVD

  • World Drift transistors In: Live At the Barbican , 2004

Participations and anecdotes

  • Joey Burns played of low on two albums of Shannon Wright.
  • 1999, the group with taken part in the album of Jean-Louis Murat, Mustango . This last their dedicated a song ( Viva Calexico ) on this album.
  • 2004 Alexandra Roos the abum " Brass bands " is produced by Craig Schumacher, the sound engineer of Calexico.
  • 2005, Joey Burns sings in duet with Françoiz Breut the song Over all , on the album One season stolen of Françoiz Breut.
  • 2006 Duet with Gotan Project on the album " Lunático " for the song Amor Porteño.
  • the song Pen name of the album Garden ruin is sung in French.

External bonds

  • Official site of the acoustic group
  • Session for Radiolibre
  • 5 concerts of Calexico on Archive.org (formats: flac, ogg, mp3)

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