Mushroom Pillow (Spain) just released this collection of remixes of “Toro” by El Columpio Asesino. We were invited to this project along with other great acts/bands that we like such as Algodón Egipcio, María y José, and Rey Pila! You can find this digital EP on iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify. We took a different route for this one. Stream the song (courtesy of our friends from Revista Plástica) and check it out!
El Columpio Asesino – Toro (Balún RMX) by RevistaPlastica
The aptly named blog (ran by Club Fonograma contributor Pierre Lestruhaut) Sue Girl Talk asked us to submit a mixtape of whatever we wanted so we put up an hour of music featuring a lot of new and old music that we like and a bunch of super personal favorites. It’s like travelling around the world à la that 90′s video by Deep Forest. Remember that one?
Hey guys we have two interviews up for your reading pleasure. One for Revista Plástica (Spain) and another for the e-zine Mi Abuela es Jazzista (México). It’s a fun read and if you don’t know Spanish maybe this is the time to test that nifty googly translator you have lying around. Click on the images to download.
Two new songs for the spring. They are “El Medio Contenido” and “Catorce”. Both songs were written in Brooklyn and Paris during a very long summer that took us to many places and found is in between many spaces. The single is released by the awesome netlabel Beko DSL! You can download both songs at http://www.beko-dsl.com (also feel free to explore their discography; it’s packed with a lot of great music)
TRACKLIST:
Side A
1. El Medio Contenido
Side B
1. Catorce
Read MoreOur friends from the Sao Paulo based collective Si No Puedo Bailar just released this compilation where artists from all over Latin America pay tribute to great Brazillian singer-songwriter Adriana Calcanhotto. We were invited by Rodrigo Maceira to take one of her songs and make it our own. We went with “Sudoeste” and had a lot of fun recording and reimagining her song. A lot of other good friends appear in this compilation such as Mima who is also from Puerto Rico. You can download the compilation for free over at http://www.naomoromais.com (to find the link just keep scrolling to the right!) and if you are lucky and live in / or visit Brazil you may get the vinyl version of the album for free at one of their shows.
LISTEN:
Sudoeste – Balun by naomoromaisemmim
TRACKLIST:
Side A
01. Inverno (hot and cold mix) – Zeep
02. Cantata (después de estar con vos) – Cineplexx
03. Escuadras – Franny Glass
04. Cariocas - Los Mil Jinetes
05. Vambora – Entre Ríos
Side B
01. Sudoeste – Balún
02. Mitad – Jóvenes y Sexys
03. Unos Versos – Coiffeur
04. Mentiras – MIMA
05. Segundos – Lido Pimienta
Live video of Camila at El Teatro en el El Museo del Barrio (NYC). The building used to be an orphanage decades before. Some say that you can still listen to children’s laughter at night. This was a special interactive Balún concert for children and adults that incorporated live visuals, instrument making and audience participation. For this song we were joined by Julio Cesar Morales from the experimental puppet theater company Y No Había Luz (http://http://www.ynohabialuz.com/). Thanks so much to Armando Croda for putting this video together!
Video directed by: Armando Croda
Photography and editing: Armando Croda
http://www.armandocroda.com/
Museo del Barrio
http://www.elmuseo.org/
Download the digital single “Camila” athttp://balun.bandcamp.com/album/camila
Read MoreWe just released a new alternate version of Camila. This one is radioactive and busier! We have bundled the two songs for free at http://balun.bandcamp.com/album/camila
So far the song has received a lot of love from some nice people! You can read all of it here:
Aurora Vibes
Gold Soundz
Mane Shakin’ Folk
Flashlight Tag
El Parlante Amarillo
Gente Que Viene a Mi Casa
Hi all. 2010 was a good year for Balún! We released a mini-album “Memoria Textil“, did a couple of remixes including one for our friend minusbaby, recorded a couple of covers like “Fiesta Permanente” for Fonográmaticos Vol. 10, and did an all acoustic session for Frecuencias Alternas’ “Música Realenga”. We also invited a new member to Balún and he’s now playing drums and pitched percussion with us!
At the end of the year, everyone made their top of 2010 lists and “Memoria Textil” appeared on a bunch of them:
Top 40 Best Albums of 2010 by Club Fonograma
Top 10 of 2010 by Puerto Rico Indie
Favorite albums of 2010 by El Amarillo
Best of 2010 by Tiny Cartridge
Best of 2010 by Mi Abuela es Jazzista (great name btw)
Best of 2010 by Music-Islands (Japan)
Top 100 songs of 2010 by Club Fonograma
Top 80 songs of 2010 by El Amarillo
Also our cover of Pau y Sus Amigos got a mention at one of our favorite blogs Life:Aquatic!
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For 2011 expect new music, another cover of a great Latin American artist, new videos and lots more! We are going to keep working on new songs for our 2nd album too.
And lastly a very cool person made this with our music. Happy 2011!
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Club Fonograma just recently released their 10th compilation of the Fonogramáticos series and it’s a very special one! Bands from all over Latin America and Spain covering each other. We fell in love with Pau y Sus Amigos’ “Fiesta Permanente” upon first listen and decided that this was a great chance to show them how much we liked their song. So we did! A lot of other great artists appear in this compilation and you can download it for free!
DOWNLOAD FONOGRAMATICOS VOL. 10 – NOSOTROS LOS ROCKERS
Also our song “Camila” has been reaching new ears and getting reviews. We are very happy that this song in particular is spreading out more as we feel it synthesizes the sound that we want to capture and that better defines the group as of now. The good people over at Life: Aquatic, International Tapes, Rocktantra, and Flashlight Tag had some beautiful words about the song and we can’t be more happy. And as a bonus Club Fonograma included the song in their Halloween Mixtape.
And to finalize, we got two more reviews of Memoria Textil courtesy of Colombia’s “El Amarillo” and Iowa’s “Their Bated Breath“. Thanks to both sites for taking their time and reviewing the mini-album!
PS. Our sister ambient chamber ensemble Arturo en el Barco released a new EP. Get it at Bandcamp for free.
Read MoreOur 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.
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
Read MoreHey 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:
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