Art & film students from Columbia got together in 1994 to make music, took 11 years to record first CD. minimalist pop meets homespun clatter and four track experiments of LAFMS & The Residents. Most tracks are slow to mid tempo and all are way too short. Nice sound that would be great from an Indie pop to Experimental show. In Spanish.
****1: 1: 21 simple string plucking, male vocal chant, cool buzz sound
2: 2:20 simple string plucking, male vocal chant, mid tempo.
***3: 1:27 neat percussion, bandolin??? mid to faster.
4: 1: 23 beautiful fem vocal. Slow.
**5: 1:09 distorted, mildly chaotic, male vocal, plucked strings, in & out electronic pulse thumping at end.
****6: 2:59 dreamy swirl drone, plucked strings.slow. cool swirl sound
****7: 1: 40 dreamy swirl drone, cool chorus vocals, faster.
8: 2:11 simple percussion, struck keys??plucked strings, male spoken word/vocal, slow.
***9: 1:23 cool mid tempo percussion, keyboard/synthesizer
10: 1: 40 plucked strings, keyboard/synthesizer drone, male vocal chant
11: 1:41 strummed strings, swirl drone, male vocal chant
12: 0: 57 plucked strings,dischordant, cool sound
***13: 2:52 fem vocal, flute, plucked strings, percussion.
***14: 1:18 crickets, simple guitar, electronic drone
***15: 4: simple percussion, nice plucked strings
***16: 2:24 simple plucked strings and male vocal, slow. Very nice sound.
17: 2:41 harmonica?? Accordion?? simple plucked strings, background drone, shaker, slow.
18: 2: 50 keyboard drone, real simple plucked strings, male spoken word. . D Farrell 02/2006