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01. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Dime Lo Que Suenas
02. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Cuaderno
03. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Estrella De La Cancio
04. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Desinfiado
05. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - La Prima
06. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Encimeme El Segundo
07. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Cha Cha Cha
08. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Perdi El Compas
09. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - El Mismo Pesimiso
10. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Ahora
11. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - U
12. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Fantasmas
13. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Sin Corazon
14. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Mamerto Son
15. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Vamos Todos A Bailar
16. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Tierra Caliente Agua Fria
17. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Jazz El Ganso
18. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Museo De Los Imperfectos
19. LAS MALAS AMISTADES - Cuentagotas
ARTIST
TITLE
Patio Bonito
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
HJR 029CD HJR 029CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/13/2008

Patio Bonito is the second Las Malas Amistades release on Honest Jon's. Las Malas Amistades -- "the bad friends" -- formed in 1994, when several art students in Bogota, Colombia, began meeting up to play music together (though none of them were musicians). From the start, their method has been to make up songs there at the session, sometimes while their four-track is already running, moving straight on when something is caught on the tape. Six members use a hulking charity-shop synth and a Casiotone, electronic drums, an acoustic guitar, a cuatro and various small percussion gadgets. Sometimes songs are acoustic, sometimes electronic, usually mixed. The music is spontaneous, intimate, spare. It's lovely, heartfelt, full of poppy wit and beauty, about to fall apart. Patio Bonito was recorded with the natural percussion of the raindrops hitting the tiles on the roof. In Bogota, when it rains so much, people tend to stay indoors and probably that spirit of confinement can also be heard on the record (although less clearly than the rain). As one member illustrates, the record "sounds like that brief and pineapple-y interval when the rain stops, the clouds open up, the light shines and people realize that the sun hasn't gone anywhere, that it was always up there, waiting to shine again."