Y La Bamba - Night One

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<h3><a href="http://www.ylabamba.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Y LA BAMBA</a></h3>Y La Bamba has been many things, but at the heart of it is singer-songwriter Luz Elena Mendoza’s inquisitive sense of self. Their fifth record, Mujeres, carries on the Portland-based band’s affinity for spiritual contemplation, but goes a step further in telling a story with a full emotional spectrum. Coming off Ojos Del Sol, one of NPR’s Top 50 Albums of 2016, Mujeres exhibits the scope of Mendoza’s artistic voice like never before. “Soy como soy,” Mendoza says, and that declaration is the bold— even political— statement that positions Mujeres to be Y La Bamba’s most unbridled offering yet.The record exists in the post-2016 landscape of a national identity crisis, and Mendoza explores what it means to be a Mexican American woman by leading us through places we are afraid to go. Mujeres ventures in to the discomfort of the stories we tell ourselves. Those of our past, our futures. We all have these stories somewhere inside of us, but with Y La Bamba, Mendoza forges new narratives from old stories of heritage and family, tracing history while forging modern chicana feminism.“Music is an extension of everything I have inside. It’s how I emote,” Mendoza says. The raw honesty of Mujeres is in fact the raw honesty of Mendoza. Armed with the emotionality of traditional música mexicana and the storytelling of American folk, Y La Bamba’s artistry is not just their musical ability but Mendoza’s search for unadulterated truth. It is in an ancestral, spiritual journey in which Mendoza comes to terms with the influence and limitations of her upbringing. Mendoza’s experience of childhood summers in the San Joaquin Valley listening to mariachi, of being raised strict Catholic by immigrant parents, of being a woman having to prove herself to the boys, paints strokes of both melancholy and healing on the tracks. “From the way that my family struggles, to the way they shoot the shit… it’s so different from whiteness,” Mendoza says. “It’s a different dimension.”Y La Bamba exists in the dimension of the Mexican American imagination: somewhere cynical and optimistic at the same time. While there is a celebration of the Mexican creativity that has informed Mendoza’s life, there is a darker side to reconcile with. Where do mujeres fit in to the American story? What are the sins for which we are all guilty? How do different generations interact with the world? How can a culture become visible without tokenization? It is no surprise that in Mujeres, Y La Bamba’s first record with Mendoza at the helm of production, Mendoza contemplates these questions to tell her story. But it is not just Mendoza’s story. Challenging a narrative and dealing with the emotionality of that effort— that is everyone’s story.Mujeres was recorded by Luz Elena Mendoza and Ryan Oxford at Color Therapy Studios and Besitos Fritos Studios in Portland, Oregon. Mixed by Jeff Bond, with Grace Bugbee on bass, John Niekrasz on drums, Margaret Wher Gibson on keys, and Ed Rodriguez and Ryan Oxford on electric guitar.

<h3><a href="https://www.frankiesimonemusic.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">FRANKIE SIMONE </a></h3>Frankie Simone (they/them) is a queer, non-binary Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and producer based in Portland, OR. Their powerhouse debut EP, Love Warrior made an impact in 2018 - receiving national attention from Billboard Magazine, NPR, KCRW, charting on Spotify’s USA Top 50 Playlist, and being spotlighted in Netflix’s original series, Trinket’s. With performances supporting Madame Gandhi and Zara Larsson, as well as sharing festival stages with Dai Burger and Sateen, Frankie’s pursuit to amplify queer visibility and interdependence was rippling far and wide. Then in 2020, they dropped Sensitive Creature, a radically honest and emotionally expansive full length record which has been featured in the soundtrack of an EA Sports Fifa video game featuring Diplo, and a Megan Thee Stallion Cash App commercial. They just released their latest single and music video, REVOLUCIÓN, which is a courageous declaration of both personal and collective liberation in the face of turbulent and painful times.

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