Rafa Pistola
El Paso
Well, its 2018, and Rafa Pistola writes and plays all of these tunes…sings em’, all….and adds a few other instruments and things here and there sometimes, feel free… maybe some thoughts and voices floating in space, some beloved humans too. Hello kind friends.
I remember starting to jam in 1997 with Steve-O and Jericho in my childhood home upstairs. Then writing a bunch of songs and bouncing around Sunset Heights form apt to apt from band spot to jam spot. I remember in 1999 starting to jam with P-Nut and meeting my girl then came Ray then Danny and we jammed as Mashin in 1999-2000 a bunch of roudy and experimental/great people at the shows...then i left to Tucson,AZ to join the anarchists Fewel Project...Will, Steve, Jericho, Marko, Andy...very careless and open times sleeping in the jam the space showering at the YMCA....jamming nightly...awesome. We came back to El Paso, TX (most of us) and it was six years of trying, doing, growth and chaos/order and smiles with Nimitz, Cris, Frank, Maus, Mickey, Rocka, Jenna, In 2006 we stopped and in 2007 I was jamming at Chuck' E.s with The Tape Incident and Izzo V. and Rocka and I started playing almost instantly and Mexicans at Night (+Miguel, Chuck, Rich Rap, Brian here and there) was born...on Rio Grande and Brown St.. We took it far out, for about 5 years and toured and all...freaking greatness and many people to meet...we paused that and I jammed with The Immigrant Noise in electro-beauty and style..then...Get the Honey...from about 2012 to today its Get the Honey City with Mick City and Young Chris...go see that too...OK that's enough story for now.
“I like, you know, music from different gutty old places, dirty, and also glossy and poppy sometimes too, just an honest, precious, you know, melody and that phat old beat a lot of times too, or just space filling it all up too, 4/4, 3/4, 1/2, English, Nahuat, Spanish, green or yellow, fast and loud, slow and cool…doing, you know, different sounds and music, from all these different spirits around, its their tunes…these ghosts, you’ll hear that fruit juice…”
Rafa Pistola is now actively living in the desert, in the summer, and looking out the widow just thinking about people, and human history, and rent,…writing, playing music and finally trying at distributing, (even if only demo rough version) copies of his acoustic recordings which have been roughly compiled throughout the last 21 years that he has been happy, bummed, angry, calm, aware, dumb, moving, staying,…active creating, and performing music. Sound cloud, what a good thing.
"I've found that not really driving cars keeps me out of trouble. Chaos order, just avoid the chaos and that also skips their order a lot of the times, you know?...I’m just thankful and happy to be alive, in this world, and the sound or songs or whatever, that also comes from all around, yeah, from the (ghost), you know. And we just have to repeat these things from way long ago, and that thing is a blessing so…but, I’m just eager to see what happens with it today, then maybe tomorrow…” (Rafa Pistola, 2012)
Listen when you can, in comfort or even in a rush for a bit…maybe you’ll hear bit of what it feels like to be over here, or what it might sound like…Thank you either way; it’s a pleasure for me. Saludos!!!
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