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Las Malas Amistades: Jardín Interior

Psych Folk, DIY Punk & Tropicália from Bogota, comes in a special packaging (one mint copy)

Las Malas Amistades — ‘the bad friends’ — formed in 1994, when several arts 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 whilst their four-track is already running, moving straight on when something is caught on the tape. The music is fresh, spontaneous, intimate, spare. It’s lovely, heartfelt, a bit wrong, full of poppy wit and beauty. There are six members at present. They use a hulking charity-shop synth and a Casiotone, electronic drums, an acoustic guitar and a cuatro, various small percussion gadgets. Sometimes songs are acoustic, sometimes electronic, usually both. Las Malas Amistades are heirs to the anthropophagism of the Tropicália movement, gobbling the brains of a scrumptious range of musical intelligence. Las Malas Amistades have released two records. The first, La Música De Las Malas Amistades, compiled songs from the first five or six years of the band. The second, Jardín Interior, was recorded in Bogotá in March 2005, last year. Early next year, Honest Jon’s will release the third album by Las Malas Amistades. Of Jardín Interior, Vice magazine said ‘It’s kind of like if the Young Marble Giants sang in Spanish and didn’t fully know how to play. It’s pretty great, in other words.’ Rolling Stone didn’t know if it was good or bad: ‘you decide’, it wrote. This three-7” set presents seventeen tracks, with full translations and great original artwork by the group.