Sunday, March 12, 2006
Calexico - Alone again
Calexico, a Tucson collective of musicians focused around Joey Burns and John Convertino, forged an eclectic identity through their exploration of Southwestern culture. Composer Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Westerns as well as Portuguese fado, Afro-Peruvian music, and '50s and '60s jazz, country, and surf music all factored into Calexico's music.
was playing with Burns studied classical music at the University of California-Irvine before starting his rock career. Calexico formed after Burns met John Convertino in Los Angeles in 1990. At the time, ConvertinoHowe Gelb's experimental rock group Giant Sand. Burns joined the group as their upright bassist for a European tour.
Other Albums:
calexico - feast of wire
calexico - even my sure things fall
calexico - convict pool
calexico - aerocalexico
calexico - iron and wine in reigns
calexico - spoke
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts of the Week
-
History They originally called themselves The Reactionaries , with additional band member and singer Martin Tamburovich. According to Watt, ...
-
Velvet Revolver is a rock supergroup with three former members of Guns N' Roses--Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum--with Scott Weila...
-
Mike Stroud and Evan 'E*vax' Mast have finally completed work on their second album, humbly titled 'Classics'. They'd h...
-
Crisis? What Crisis? is the fourth album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 1975 (see 1975 in music). The album was Supertr...
-
The musicianship on Just Like Magic is impeccable, unfortunately the same cannot be said for the music. With the exception of the album ope...
-
Biography: Led Zeppelin was the definitive heavy metal band. It wasn't just their crushingly loud interpretation of the blues -- it was ...
-
Talk Talk was a British music group that was active from 1981 to 1991. Principal members included singer/songwriter Mark Hollis, producer a...
0 COMMENTS:
Post a Comment