Balún!

Save the date!! We are playing the Solo Dame Indie Pop! 2nd Year LAMC Party! July 8th at Cameo (Brooklyn) with Los Punsetes (Spain), Kordan (NYC), Sweet Electra (Spain) and DJ Amylulita (NYC)!

We were invited by our friends from Frecuencias Alternas to be part of their Musica Realenga series which takes bands and musicians and asks them to play acoustic versions of their song in unusual settings around San Juan. We performed in manifestation that took part by students, faculty and other supporters from the University of Puerto Rico that at that moment were on a strike that lasted two months and paralyzed the whole public higher education system of the island. For this special presentation our first guitarist Andrés re-joined the band and we played as a quintet for the first time!

Read more about it at Frecuencias Alternas and…

Check out the acoustic versions for “El Arbol y las Otras Cosas” (from Memoria Textil) and “Senecio” (from While Sleeping EP) below!

Vamos para el West! We are playing this year’s Coors Light Indie Rock Fest in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. The line-up looks promising and it will be our chance to catch up with the San Juan music scene. Also expect an unexpected surprise from us. Show details below!

LINE-UP

Robi Draco Rosa
Superaquello
Balun
Mima
Juventud Crasa
Los Convertibles
Campo Formio
Tach.de
Polidesto
Go Organ

Saturday, May 29, 2010
2 PM

Tickets: $20

Aeropuerto Rafael Hernández (map)
Aguadilla, PR, Puerto Rico 00603

Our friend minusbaby (8bitpeoples) asked us to do a remix for him and it’s officially out! You can download for free the EP called “Left Remixes, Pt. 2″ from the Free Music Archive. Tim Koch (Ghostly) and Turing’s Apple also contributed remixes to this project. Show your 8-bit love and get this today.

DOWNLOAD LEFT REMIXES, PT. 2

Hey all we got two great upcoming shows this month! Music vs Hunger at Cake Shop (4/11) and Pulsewave at the The Tank (4/17)! Check it out.

Music VS Hunger presents:

Balún
Data Dog
Food Stamps
The Sunsheds

Cake Shop
152 Ludlow St., NYC

8 PM (doors) / $7 / 21+
http://cake-shop.com/

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Celebrate the 4th anniversary of Pulsewave at the Tank ! The snow is melting, nature emerges regrown, animals wake up from hibernation to PART-AY. Albino Ghost Monkey comes from the far off land of Wisconsin to share Nanoloop knowledge, Balun will warm us up with their IDM folk-pop and the vibrant 8bitbEtty will keep everything twinkling to the beats. Our pixel entertainment for the night is provided by Philly’s enso. Free cupcakes and candy for the first 25 people. Spring Bloom and Pulsewave’s 4th anniversary is made possible by The Tank, 8bitpeoples, Cheese’N'Beer and The C-Men.

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Saturday, February 27, 2010
8 PM – 12 AM
$10
All Ages

The Tank
354 West 45th Street
Between 8th and 9th Avenues

GOOGLE MAP
http://3.ly/thetank

BY SUBWAY
A, C, E, N, Q, R, W, 1, 2, 3, B, D, F, V, S, or 7 to 42nd Street

Open mic 8pm; show 9pm
All ages, $10

http://www.pulsewavenyc.com/

The super awesome music blog Club Fonograma released their latest compilation, and our song “Las Olas” from Memoria Textil is in it. This is a great chance to check out other Latin American bands doing great stuff. We love it.

DOWNLOAD FONOGRAMATICOS VOL. 7

Bushwick Music Studios in association with Deli Magazine and Arts In Bushwick are proud to announce the official schedule for DIY Bushwick, A Musical Festival, taking place March 24-27, in nine venues throughout Bushwick. The inaugural festival will feature Brooklyn-based bands, DJs, and artists performing in alternative Do-It-Yourself spaces just a walk or a bike ride apart.

http://www.diybushwick.com/

MARCH 24TH, 2010

At Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway, Brooklyn)

Balún
The Monologue Bombs
Chip Robinson
Guns, Guns, Guns

9 PM / Free / All Ages

http://www.goodbye-blue-monday.com/

Yay!

*We’ll have handmade copies of Memoria Textil for $10!

Hey all the album is now easily available to DOWNLOAD! Tell all your buddies!

We got some great reviews from Club Fonograma (who gave the album a 4/5 and labeled it as Destacados) and Remezcla. Plus El Nuevo Día interviewed us! You can read these reviews, the interview and some more press here:

CLUB FONOGRAMA

REMEZCLA

EL NUEVO DIA

MTV BRAZIL DOMINODROMO

TINY CARTRIDGE

TRUE CHIP TILL DEATH

PRINDIE

Hello, we have a new mini-album called “Memoria Textil”. It’s a limited edition of 100 handmade CD-R’s with screenprinted cover art on tanyon fabric. On February 2, 2010 we’ll make available the digital version of the album on balun.bandcamp.com for free/pay-what-you-wish! We would love to borrow your ears.

CD-R and digital tracklisting:

1. El Arbol y las Otras Cosas
2. Las Olas
3. Aerófonos
4. Minumina
5. El Paseo
6. Las Abejas
7. Con Los Pies
8. Berceuse
9. Muchas Muchas Veces

Self-released on Sgulp! Discos.

Buy now via Paypal $12 (including s/h worldwide)

Listen to three songs from “Memoria Textil” at www.myspace.com/balun and follow us on twitter.com/baluntweet! (ps. if we reach 300 followers we’ll upload two more songs to our MySpace)

For now we are selling the CD-Rs at our shows and via Paypal, but if you live in Puerto Rico you can buy it at our friends’ store/art space Executive Manolo!

We are playing in Puerto Rico for the first time in a while and to commemorate the occasion we are going to release a limited edition handmade mini album! This will precede our 2nd full length album that will also be released this year. Think of this album as the 1.5 album. But don’t worry our friends who don’t live in Puerto Rico or that can’t go to the show, we’ll also do a digital release after the show so that everyone can download it and be happy. Our special guests for this show will be El Oso y la Pantera and the show will be at Executive Manolo an awesome art space /store in Santurce so save the date!