Sacramento

2008 - 11

Sacramento play songs as if they were combing a wet dog. They can’t sing. They can’t dance. Don’t miss them...

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Waiting for the Mascota

For many years and almost as twin paths, I’ve been spending a lot of my time and energy designing for music while playing drums. My kid’s dream was to design album covers, when I was too shy to think I could ever make it to a stage.

Later in my teens, I spent countless hours in record shops, meticously studying albums until I could buy ‘the one’ per month I could afford -pre-internet years-. One day I put all my drawings into a big folder, went to a gig and started to show them around. That is how I got my first real album cover and basically everything started from there.

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Sacramento was the last band I played with and again, another playground for the creativity of everyone involved. A primitive acoustic lo-fi trio singing through megaphones and playing drumkits from discarded grocery boxes.

For all the design work I kept the same spirit, pushing limitations and involving very manual processes; a lot of handwriting, silkscreening, collage and posters on glue. We made two albums and countless graphics.

We even made a European tour of just one date.

Los Niños Terribles

Our first gig was going to be held in an old furniture store, recently dismantled by some friends that turned into a two week art gallery. During the previous three nights of the show, we hung posters in walls and lampposts around the place. This was the beginning of a series of posters that included detailed and subjective daily narratives, (besides the classic place-time-price info) as printed updates translated from internet.

Bacon Boomerang LP
2011 Self Released