— Balún

Some recent press!

By: Ondes Martinez
30-05-2011
News

Hey all, a lot has happened so far this year! Shows, new video, new singles and compilations/tributes! We have compiled all the recent press links for your reading pleasure.

Club Fonograma – El Medio Contenido
Life Aquatic – El Medio Contenido
Potholes In My Blog – El Medio Contenido
Remezcla – El Medio Contenido
Stadiums and Shrines – En Medio Del Desastre
Their Bated Breath – En Medio Del Desastre
Zona de Obras – Revista No. 63
MTV Iggy – Bands We Like: Balún
NY Press – NYC Popfest Picks
NPR Alt Latino - Latin Indie Bands Pay Homage to Brazilian Icon Adriana Calcanhotto
Revista Plástica – Entre Ríos y Balún
Gente Que Viene A Mi Casa
Remezcla – Camila live at El Museo del Barrio
Puerto Rico Indie – Balún en directo desde el CMPR
MTV Iggy – Plásticos y Etereos Vol. 1

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Shows in May: NYC Popfest and Pianos

By: Ondes Martinez
12-05-2011
Live, News

Hi all we have two exciting shows coming up! First is a daytime free show as part of NYC Popfest 2011 on May 21st and a show at Pianos with Silver Swans on May 24th! Andrés will be in town for the Pianos’ show! Woo!

 

SATURDAY MAY 21, 2011 AT 1:00 PM

Free show! / 21+

1:45 BALÚN (NYC / PUERTO RICO)
2:30 GEOFFREY O’CONNOR (AUSTRALIA)
3:15 SMILELOVE (JAPAN)
4:00 TINY FIREFLIES (IL)
4:45 THE SPECIFIC HEATS (NYC)

Spike Hill
184 & 186 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11211

www.nycpopfest.org

TUESDAY MAY 24, 2011 AT 7 PM

21+ / $8

Balún
Silver Swans (SF)
Live Footage
Priceless Music (Denver)
Laura Goldhammer (Denver)
The Romany Rye

Pianos
158 Ludlow St
New York NY 10002-2211

 

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New single: El Medio Contenido at Beko DSL

By: Ondes Martinez
20-04-2011
Downloads, Music, News

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

http://www.beko-dsl.com

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Não moro mais em mim – 10 canciones de Adriana Calcanhotto que mis hermanos oyen

By: Ondes Martinez
20-04-2011
Compilations, Downloads, Music, News

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

http://www.naomoromais.com

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Playing in Puerto Rico! April 15!

By: Ondes Martinez
03-04-2011
Live, News

 

• MORE INFO AT THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE •

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Video: Camila at El Museo del Barrio (2011)

By: Ondes Martinez
20-03-2011
Downloads, Live, Music, Video

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

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En Medio del Desastre

By: Ondes Martinez
06-02-2011
News

We have a brand new song in Revista Plástica’s first ever compilation “Plásticos y Etereos”. This is our first song with Justin, who is our percussionist! Real drums are now living alongside rhythmic found sounds (hello 2011). The song is about being in the middle of an earthquake, among other things. You can download the compilation for free at http://plastica.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:

1. Hyperpotamus (London) – Jorge y Daniel 1987
2. Dënver (Santiago de Chile) – De explosiones y delitos
3. Pegasvs (Barcelona) – La melodía del afilador
4. Balún (NYC) – En el medio del desastre
5. Trisfe (Sevilla) – Vida normal
6. Roldán (Barcelona) – Mal día, (Raúl Querido cover)
7. Chico Sonido (L.A.) – De un lado a otro, (inédito), y Más Discotheque
8. Chin Yi (Granada) – Iben ma catcha
9. Los Negretes (México D.F.) – Puta ciudad
10. Piyama Party (Monterrey) – Bandas de chicas

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Camila (Radioactiva)

By: Ondes Martinez
29-01-2011
Downloads, Reviews

We 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

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2010 in Review

By: Ondes Martinez
17-01-2011
Downloads, Music, News

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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Balun in Fonogramaticos Vol. 10

By: Ondes Martinez
03-11-2010
Compilations, Downloads, News

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.

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Imagine Science Film Festival

By: Ondes Martinez
06-10-2010
Live, News

We are going to play at this year’s Imagine Science Film Fest in NYC on October 18th. It will be held at the Bell House in Brooklyn and the night will feature avant-garde movies related to science! It’s completely free. So, you should go!


AVANT-GARDE SCIENCE
in partnership with the Secret Science Club

Monday, October 18, 2010  8pm | FREE »

VENUE :
The Bell House | Brooklyn (Gowanus area)
149 7th St. Park Slope (between 2nd and 3rd Ave) map
F,G,R to 9th st & 4th Ave.

Complete info: http://imaginesciencefilms.com/festival/tickets-showtimes/

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Summer’s not over at Coco66

By: Ondes Martinez
06-09-2010
Live, News

Playing another show with an amazing line-up in lovely Greenpoint! This time is our friend Dominique Leone (Important Records) will join us as well as Wobbly (Tigerbeat 6) and Instant Coffee (M.C. Schmidt from Matmos + peeps) and Safety Scissors will DJ! Electronics, lot’s of instruments, weird sounds, and some repurposed pop.

Summer’s not over. No. no, no.

Balún
Wobbly
Dominique Leone
Instant Coffee

+DJ sets by Safety Scissors

@ Coco 66
66 Greenpoint Ave., Brooklyn

Sept. 18 / $7 / 21+

www.myspace.com/balun
www.myspace.com/wobbbly
www.myspace.com/dominiqueleone
www.myspace.com/instantcoffee3

www.coco66.com

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