Bringing the sounds of Southwestern USA to the South West of England is Arizona's Calexico. The Tuscon based collective's lyrical imagery and tex-mex americana can transport the listener to a world far away from the valleys of Somerset. With Calexico in full flow, your festival falafel turns taco and the green fields around you become an arid dustbowl, where the faint blend of pedal-steel and mariachi serenade you in the baking sun.
The band was formed in 1996, when Joey Burns and John Convertino put their experiences playing together in previous bands, Giant Sand and The Friends Of Dean Martinez, together with their shared love of Latin music and American Country together to create debut album Spoke.
In the ensuing years the group have mixed surf rock, jazz, country and post-rock to form an uncountable number of collaborations, most notably with Iron & Wine on In the Reins, and nine studio albums, including the soundtrack to 2011 Brendan Gleeson film The Guard.
Calexico shaped their early career on their live reputation and noting has changed in the seventeen years since. Those willing to take the journey in the deep south are in for a treat.
Bringing the sounds of Southwestern USA to the South West of England is Arizona's Calexico. The Tuscon based collective's lyrical imagery and tex-mex americana can transport the listener to a world far away from the valleys of Somerset. With Calexico in full flow, your festival falafel turns taco and the green fields around you become an arid dustbowl, where the faint blend of pedal-steel and mariachi serenade you in the baking sun.
The band was formed in 1996, when Joey Burns and John Convertino put their experiences playing together in previous bands, Giant Sand and The Friends Of Dean Martinez, together with their shared love of Latin music and American Country together to create debut album Spoke.
In the ensuing years the group have mixed surf rock, jazz, country and post-rock to form an uncountable number of collaborations, most notably with Iron & Wine on In the Reins, and nine studio albums, including the soundtrack to 2011 Brendan Gleeson film The Guard.
Calexico shaped their early career on their live reputation and noting has changed in the seventeen years since. Those willing to take the journey in the deep south are in for a treat.
