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ugh i took a self-indulgent nap yesterday and that was fine, and then i went to bed at a normal hour which was also fine, except then i woke up at 3:30 am and i’m like O.O so.
I… Google Play spiraled last night, kind of; I was Google searching about mariachi music for obvious reasons and less-obvious– remember my weird crisis where i was like why do i know every song and then i remembered the worn cassette of Mas Canciones that was one of like four albums I listened to in my childhood, well. So. I listened to a lot of Lola Beltran yesterday and was like oh huh okay.
Anyway. Then I Googled what’s actually going on in like, popular Latin American music okay, because like. I get it, that’s like. Folk music. but like the 70s kind of folk music. And its various revivals. Anyway.
I don’t know quite how I got here but it turns out that there’s a kind of powerhouse-of-rock group out of Guatemala called Bohemia Suburbana and they have a small collection of, like… art films? I guess they’re music videos but there’s one featuring a dude’s samurai death vision quest guerrilla tragic best-friend betrayal something (i’m not kidding, there’s blood and screaming and sex and death and like, genocide, and just be prepared to be devastated and simultaneously confused ok), and another featuring an absolutely heartbreaking series of visuals as a middle-aged Central American woman in an Uncle Sam costume has a kind of alcohol-fueled breakdown, and then one where there’s a girl in a sundress running and hallucinating and I don’t know, I lost the plot–
anyway, they’re not just music videos. They’re six-minute art films. You’re welcome. That’s apparently what Guatemalan popular rock music is up to nowadays.
(I also discovered Alux Nahual but they are apparently a crapshoot, because they’ve been recording continuously since 1979 and their albums range in style in predictable fashions, although the most recent one is fucking killer; you just never know when it’s going to be the bad kind of Jethro Tull. It’s kind of directly comparable to wading blind into Black Sabbath’s discography, y’know? Could be brilliant, could be dated, could be incomprehensible, you just don’t know. But give Sueños de Jade a listen, it’s pretty great. most of their stuff isn’t on Google Play so I don’t know much about it.)
ugh i took a self-indulgent nap yesterday and that was fine, and then i went to bed at a normal hour which was also fine, except then i woke up at 3:30 am and i’m like O.O so.
I… Google Play spiraled last night, kind of; I was Google searching about mariachi music for obvious reasons and less-obvious– remember my weird crisis where i was like why do i know every song and then i remembered the worn cassette of Mas Canciones that was one of like four albums I listened to in my childhood, well. So. I listened to a lot of Lola Beltran yesterday and was like oh huh okay.
Anyway. Then I Googled what’s actually going on in like, popular Latin American music okay, because like. I get it, that’s like. Folk music. but like the 70s kind of folk music. And its various revivals. Anyway.
I don’t know quite how I got here but it turns out that there’s a kind of powerhouse-of-rock group out of Guatemala called Bohemia Suburbana and they have a small collection of, like… art films? I guess they’re music videos but there’s one featuring a dude’s samurai death vision quest guerrilla tragic best-friend betrayal something (i’m not kidding, there’s blood and screaming and sex and death and like, genocide, and just be prepared to be devastated and simultaneously confused ok), and another featuring an absolutely heartbreaking series of visuals as a middle-aged Central American woman in an Uncle Sam costume has a kind of alcohol-fueled breakdown, and then one where there’s a girl in a sundress running and hallucinating and I don’t know, I lost the plot–
anyway, they’re not just music videos. They’re six-minute art films. You’re welcome. That’s apparently what Guatemalan popular rock music is up to nowadays.
(I also discovered Alux Nahual but they are apparently a crapshoot, because they’ve been recording continuously since 1979 and their albums range in style in predictable fashions, although the most recent one is fucking killer; you just never know when it’s going to be the bad kind of Jethro Tull. It’s kind of directly comparable to wading blind into Black Sabbath’s discography, y’know? Could be brilliant, could be dated, could be incomprehensible, you just don’t know. But give Sueños de Jade a listen, it’s pretty great. most of their stuff isn’t on Google Play so I don’t know much about it.)
