Algodón Egipcio

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NEW SONG: Algodón Egipcio - La Plegaria

A couple of months ago I was asked by my friend Luke from International Tapes and Coco from Coco’s OCD to participate on The Nablus Project, where I had to make a new piece based on a 25-minutes recording of a Muezzin call to prayer, made on the Nablus mountains. This recording has a huge and beautiful natural reverb (that later proved to be very hard to work with).

The entire compilation, which also features 11 other tracks made by Helado Negro, MEGAFORTRESS, White Ninja and more, is now for sale on Bandcamp. Please, if you like it, spend the 4 bucks, all the money will go to charity.

IMPOSE made a note on the compilation HERE.

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NEW REMIX: Mariachi El Bronx - Revolution Girls (Algodón Egipcio Remix)

A couple of months ago I was asked to remix a Mariachi El Bronx song. I didn’t have a clue where to start. Here’s the result, probably the hardest I’ve worked on a remix. It was premiered today on the KCRW Blog, you can download it for free there or on my Soundcloud.

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NEW COVER: Algodón Egipcio - Color Café (Serge Gainsbourg Cover)

The guys at Revista 69, a very cool blog from Perú, asked me to make a cover of a Serge Gainsbourg song for a tribute. I almost didn’t do it, because I don’t feel I know enough about Gainsbourg’s work to participate on a tribute. But I took it as a challenge, as usual, and just had fun with it. I did Couleur Cafe, sung in Spanish. Hope you like it, I sing a bit in French, which is a first.

There are other participating Latin/Spanish bands that I love, like Odio París and Lido Pimienta. Click HERE to download the track and the rest of the tibute.

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CARACAS! Festival de la Lectura Chacao 2012
Viernes, 4 de mayo
Plaza Altamira (Tarima Norte)
8:00 pm
Gratis!

Este viernes toco en el increíble Festival de la Lectura que se montaron en Plaza Altamira. Para todas las edades. Así que aprovechan, van con la familia, compran un libro o dos y ven el concierto, que va a ser en la tarima norte, que está sobre el espejo de agua detrás del obelisco.

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NEW COVER: Algodón Egipcio - Love Will Never Do (Without You) (Janet Jackson Cover) ↪

I was ask by Cokemachine Glow to make a cover of an 80s song for their latest Fantasy Podcast. I picked this song by one of my favorite artists ever. Check it out!

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NEW REMIX: Wild Honey - Kings of Tomorrow (Algodón Egipcio Remix)

This is a bit old remix I made last year for my friend Guille, who has an amazing project called Wild Honey, one of my favorites from Spain. This remix was just released on digital and 7” (vinyl release, yeah!), on the label Lovemonk as part of an EP called Fake Horoscopes. It also has a remix by Gummy Soul, from Nashville. Enjoy!

Click on the image to stream/buy it.

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Finally! The cool guys @ Nrmal released today the Norte Sonoro EP 1. This is the resulting work of a residence/festival they organized past November 2011 in Monterrey, were a bunch of international producers and musicians, including me, had the chance to reinterpret the sounds of northern Mexico. I had the chance to meet and share with so many talented people, such as Helado Negro, Mumdance, DJ /rupture, Toy Selectah, White Rainbow and Chanca Via Circuito, and we all managed to produce very interesting pieces of work, each one of us took the music they provided us and gave it their own style.

My track is called “La Espina del Cardenche”, it’s a piece that mixes elements from different styles, and the lead vocals are from the song “Yo ya me voy a morir a los desiertos”, recorded by Los Cardencheros de Sapioriz. These guys are pushing 80 years old and are the very last cardenche group in history. I will always remember when they saw me perform this song live and said “now we know our music will live forever”.

Hope you can find a couple of minutes to listen to our work and share it with your friends. It’s a free download!

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NEW SONG: Algodón Egipcio - La Conducta Original

This is a new song of mine that I really, really love. It just officially came out on the new Revista Plástica compilation, called Plásticos y Etéreos 2012. You can click on the picture to stream/download the song, or click HERE to check out the entire thing, there’s some amazing music there.

Hope you like the song! Download it and spread it.

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