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Bilingualism, Plastilina Mosh, and the Monterrey Book Fair
Monterrey, Mexico is the nearest big city to here. A little more than 100 miles due west, it is much closer than San Antonio way up north.
Monterrey happens to be one of the most musical cities on earth. The number of bands and artists regiomontanos who have earned worldwide fame has been astonishing. Thanks to folks like my notorious and once-again-popular neghbor lady Gloria Trevi (the rumor around the apartments here is that she lives in one of the fancy houses just across the fence) to the eternally hip accordion kingpin Celso Piña to younger performers like the guys in Kinky, Genitallica, and El Gran Silencio, the music of Monterrey has for years captured ears all over the planet.
Like that of the droll, danceable duo Plastilina Mosh who this month released their first album of new material in five years. And get this: All U Need Is Mosh is mostly in English.
Our favorite bilingual music journalist Enrique Lopetegui, who often takes a dim view of crossover efforts (the crassly commercial ones, that is), says this one might be the best work yet from P-Mosh. Which is really saying something. You can read a review in English if you prefer, in Mother Jones. That one links you to places where you can download a couple tracks from All U Need Is Mosh.
At last October's brilliant Monterrey Book Festival, Jonaz was supposed to appear in a panel discussion celebrating the new short story collection El rock es puro cuento (UANL, 970-694-398-6) which has 17 of the best stories from a contest sponsored by a local music magazine.
Jonaz blew it off, of course, but at least Tony Hernández of El Gran Silencio showed up and dazzled everyone with his surprisingly scholarly stage presence. If you are looking for a terrific, huge, wide-ranging Spanish-language book fair and just can't make it to Guadalajara, consider heading to northern Mexico this October 11-19 for the 18th FIL-Monterrey.
If your travel budget is depleted, you can still go hear Plastilina Mosh at http://www.myspace.com/plastilinamosh
Bilingualism, Plastilina Mosh, and the Monterrey Book Fair
August 19, 2008
Monterrey, Mexico is the nearest big city to here. A little more than 100 miles due west, it is much closer than San Antonio way up north. Monterrey happens to be one of the most musical cities on earth. The number of bands and artists regiomontanos who have earned worldwide fame has been astonishing. Thanks to folks like my notorious and once-again-popular neghbor lady Gloria Trevi (the rumor around the apartments here is that she lives in one of the fancy houses just across the fence) to the eternally hip accordion kingpin Celso Piña to younger performers like the guys in Kinky, Genitallica, and El Gran Silencio, the music of Monterrey has for years captured ears all over the planet.
Like that of the droll, danceable duo Plastilina Mosh who this month released their first album of new material in five years. And get this: All U Need Is Mosh is mostly in English.Our favorite bilingual music journalist Enrique Lopetegui, who often takes a dim view of crossover efforts (the crassly commercial ones, that is), says this one might be the best work yet from P-Mosh. Which is really saying something. You can read a review in English if you prefer, in Mother Jones. That one links you to places where you can download a couple tracks from All U Need Is Mosh.
At last October's brilliant Monterrey Book Festival, Jonaz was supposed to appear in a panel discussion celebrating the new short story collection El rock es puro cuento (UANL, 970-694-398-6) which has 17 of the best stories from a contest sponsored by a local music magazine.
Jonaz blew it off, of course, but at least Tony Hernández of El Gran Silencio showed up and dazzled everyone with his surprisingly scholarly stage presence. If you are looking for a terrific, huge, wide-ranging Spanish-language book fair and just can't make it to Guadalajara, consider heading to northern Mexico this October 11-19 for the 18th FIL-Monterrey.
If your travel budget is depleted, you can still go hear Plastilina Mosh at http://www.myspace.com/plastilinamosh
Posted by Bruce Jensen on August 19, 2008 | Comments (1)
August 19, 2008
In response to: Bilingualism, Plastilina Mosh, and the Monterrey Book Fair
florecita roquera commented:
In response to: Bilingualism, Plastilina Mosh, and the Monterrey Book Fair
florecita roquera commented:
love the p mosh. monster truck es uno de mis favoritos.
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