1.Growing Up
We come from families where we sing a lot at celebrations. Pau always remembers how his father always showed up with his guitar and sang rumba classics from Ruben Blades or Los Chichos. At my home, we always sang Brazilian hits from Vinicius de Moraes, as my father used to work in Brazil. This background taught us that megaflow music is collective, changing, independent from your virtuosity and with no boundaries between the artist and the audience.
2.Inspirations
We like a huge variety of music and musicians, and maybe the only link between all of them is music that surprises us (we both remember the first time we listened to the Akira film soundtrack and feeling this was new music for us; the same happened with Fugazi, Don Caballero, Kongar-ol Ondar…), and music that lo trae caliente (literally it means “to bring it hot”). Sun Ra brings it hot, and Captain Beefheart obviously brings it hot.
3.Your Band
We are two – Pau plays trumpet, guitar, sampler and voice. I play drums, keyboards, clarinet and voice. We met in another band where Pau played bass and I played guitar. We’re the typical story of guys that have spent our teenage years in practice rooms in the suburbs playing whatever we got with whoever was there.
4.The Music You Make
We play a mixture of all the things we like: post-rock, math, jazz, Latin or African beats, electronic, loops recorded live, et cetera. We think that experimental music should not always be serious and ‘intellectual’ – experimenting is playing! We’ve recorded several albums with our own DIY label, co-releasing with other independent labels in UK, Japan, Germany and Australia. We’re lucky to have toured from the USA to Russia, from Brazil to Switzerland. Never in Australia– we are really excited.
5.Music, Right Here, Right Now
We are part of what we call our ‘Mundo Estrella’, our secret Star World (like on the Super Mario World game). A group of bands, venues, promoters, all around different countries, with whom we share the same view about music, also socially and economically. Thanks to the internet, I have the feeling that there’s plenty of Star Worlds, self-organised and independent. Now our intention is to find this in Australia.
