By José Gandue @spinning zone
Friends, folks, listeners of the great new sounds of the moment: Sometimes music, Without losing its original rebellious essence, it asks to be fun, to summon a smile, The goal is to achieve a sense of freedom from the rigid structures that some professors try to impose from their pulpits. It's about breaking down barriers, not about constructing pompous theories about how our favorite sounds should sound. It's about poking fun at solemnity for a while., Knowing that good songs aren't just the work of virtuosos (those who often only sell us boredom), and that emotion flows naturally from the garages and bedrooms of independent artists, going straight to the gut. That's right. Polux's day off, first album of Chini.Png, published by the Chilean label Fissure in March of this year.
But, let's see, let's begin: What or who are Chini.Png? This group, based in Santiago, It is led by Chini Ayarza. His bandmates are musicians from other prominent Chilean underground groups: Juan Desordenado (Columpios al Suelo), Pepe Mazurett (Niños del Cerro), Tiare Galaz (Niña Tormenta), and Leonardo Jara. Their sound might be, if I may (labels always fail or don't convince everyone), tenderly noisy indie rock. Bah, forgive me if I let myself be moved by the good distortions, Chini's sharp unexpected screams, by his very particular staging and by his anti-hero stance, so necessary in these times of exaggerated luminaries taking the spotlight. Chini.Png, recalling and twisting the title of a song by Divididos, He does strange things for people who want to be happy. That.
Due to the positive feedback they received since the album's release, the band reached the prestigious radio station KEXP, from Seattle, within the framework of The Live Sound, the station's first Ibero-American music festival, to record a 4-song session (Poisons, Laurel, White Ribbon y Silly) very pleasant, including very well disguised accidents (For a good number of minutes at the beginning of the recording, the drummer played with a broken drumstick, but at no point did he interrupt his work and emerged unscathed from the experience.) The video reflects the freshness of the proposal and, moreover, confirms that, as the presenter himself, DJ Chilly, says, The rich and prolific Chilean music scene, where self-managed record labels and independent musicians stand out for the richness and variety of their projects and the honesty of their purposes., who, nevertheless, have good local and international results.
The video is just over half an hour long. It includes interesting definitions about death and an explanation of the origin of the name. It's worth watching, and dedicating time to what these characters do, and perhaps giving yourself the opportunity to fall in love with a brand-new proposal that arrives to refresh the rock sound of the continent.
