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With abundant, vital, ephemeral shows, Máscaras owned the blazing Portland summer with their kick ass "maximalist indigenous psych."
Favorite track: City In Ruins.
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Máscara Vs. Máscara tape!
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We just found 13 records & this is it! they'll be out of print after these... Limited to 500 copies! Lacquers cut in PDX by the homie Gus Elg at Sky Onion, pressed in Oregon at Cascade Record Pressing on 150 gram deluxe black vinyl. She's a beaut!
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Party Damage edition of Máscara vs. Máscara, lovingly pressed onto artisinal, hand-crafted compact disc.
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The result of a glorious 3 way high five between Máscaras, Resurrection Records & Party Damage Records.
Máscaras, comprised of three Portland music scene veterans (members of Sun Angle, Deer or the Doe, O Bruxo, Cat Hoch, Paper/Upper/Cuts, and literally dozens of others), is what happens when an off-the-cuff jam session between friends really, really works. Even in its recorded form, “it’s a jam with themes that live and breathe,” the band says, “leaving room for the unexpected.” The trio, comprised of Papi Fimbres (drums), Theo Craig (bass), and Carlos Segovia (guitar), plays heavy, propellant psychedelic music with surf-rock twang and mathy sensibilities. They call it “maximalist indigenous psych,” and while it’s not exactly the kind of music that one would normally identify with Portland—these are, after all, three brown dudes in the whitest city in America—they have become local favorites since their low-key formation in 2013, placing third in Willamette Week’s prestigious annual Best New Band Poll earlier this year.
Máscara vs. Máscara, the band’s first proper release, is made up mostly of songs that were written in the band’s first few jam sessions, and they are bursting with the energy of invention. Opener “Burgers & Balrog” is a surf-rock micro-epic that squeals with spiraling riffage from Segovia; “City of Ruins” finds Fimbres pummeling his set as Segovia plays intricate, Assyrian-sounding licks; “NewYorican” features playful interaction between Segovia and Craig, while Fimbres whips out the shakers and plays a latin beat (Segovia and Fimbres also play in Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, a cumbia group with over a dozen members). These are urgent, intense songs, but they’re also playful. It’s the sound of three homies making exactly the music they want to make, for no one else but themselves. It just so happens that people love it.
The result of a glorious 3 way high five between Máscaras, Resurrection Records & Party Damage Records, Máscara vs. Máscara is available digitally June 23, 2015 and physically via Burnside Distribution July 17th, 2015.
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released June 23, 2015
Available on cassette in custom colors via Resurrection Records (see link menu).
MÁSCARAS IS A MOVEMENT. IT'S A FRIENDLY GAME OF BALANCED, ELEMENTAL FORCES THAT PUSH, PULL, AND TURN TOGETHER IN AN UNCANNY DISPLAY OF SYNCHRONICITY AND UNBRIDLED ENERGY. THIS IS WHAT YOU LOOK FOR IN LIVE, LIVING MUSIC.
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Opener absolutely rips. Falls into the ranks of tracks like “Dance” by ESG, “Eisbaer” by Grauzone, “Damaged Goods” by Gang of Four or like the album description says Kleenex. This is some really good stuff. Favorite song is the opener but dedicate “Blue” to my friend Blue who lost her life at 22, she would have loved this album. TheBloodofChrist