Calexico
Yesterday night I made a discovery.
I watched this: http://plus7.arte.tv/fr/detailPage/1697660,CmC=2255684,CmPage=1697660.html
What really struck me was the performance of Joey Burns from the US Band Calexico (I had never heard about them before). The performance is found roughly halfways on the video accessible through above link, featuring two songs (A wonderful acoustic version of “Two silver trees” and a hardly rehearsed but perfect full band version of “Tornado Watch”). Also try searching for “Calexico” on Youtube.
This is wonderful wonderful stuff. So full of bold experimental and melancholic melodies and lyrics. Yet with some texmex elements (brass and classic mariachi guitars) that add an almost sarcastic note to their mostly noir music pieces. Sounds like an impossible combination, doesn’t it? Lesson learnt: If you want to do something bold and new, you have to make the impossible possible.
