Los Concorde | pt

Nos juntamos hace casi un año en Mexico City, el primer contacto fue cuando me conseguí el numero de Leo y su mail, le escribí y le conté de la idea de armar una banda con un sonido más original y que no se pareciera a nuestros respectivos grupos...ese fue el primer encuentro. Luego de eso me encontré con Poncho en un concierto de mis compatriotas Lucybell, y me comenta que Leo le habia mencionado algo de este proyecto. Nos reimos muchísimo e hicimos un buen brindis para empezar con todo esto. Llegó el dia de juntarnos en el Xtudio...

The transmission of disorientation for those who don’t feel at home anywhere. .

Someone said, ‘One failed marriage and one million books read,’ but the story goes like this: Multi-instrumentalist, Stephen Becker began new recordings in 2006 after fleeing academe with an M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern, abandoning a failed 11-year marriage, and releasing the starkly autobiographical 'Universe & Villa' in 2005 on March Records. Shortly after the release of “Universe & Villa,” Becker sought out his teenage musical hero, David Gamson of Scritti Politti and found him living in LA. The two struck up a friendship and embarked on a series of new recordings with Becker shuttling between Chicago and Los Angeles....

Only the privileged few can say they've been at the controls of a flying Concorde—history (actually, the Museum of Flight down on Marginal Way) tells us there have been more U.S. astronauts than pilots of the permanently grounded supersonic airline fleet. Likewise, Concorde the band is helmed by a handful of elites: His Lordship Jack Durban (vox/guitars), Lady Starkat of West Durham (vox/keyboards), Duke Xavier of Barcelona (bass), Baron Buggy Sampson (guitar), and General Train (drums). On their debut album, Mess I'm Made Of, this ..ber-stylish ensemble—members resemble KGB agents, Eastern European femme fatales, and '70s porn stars—sounds as chic...