Our Christmas gift to you! A spontaneous 3-track release of all new songs inspired by the re-discovery of our song “La Luna” and the support from our friend Arturo Ulises who kindly asked us to release this song. Enjoy and expect more new music in 2013!
DOWNLOAD HERE: http://balun.bandcamp.com/album/la-luna (comes with a bonus track!)
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
Our 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
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!
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
