Malas Amistades

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4Anotaciones sobre Las malas amistades:* Las malas amistades ensayan en el 7 de agosto.* Las malas amistades tocan música.* Las malas amistades también dibujan y hacen otras cosas.* Las malas amistades han aprendido a presentarse en público. Antes les daba pena y taquicardia y lo hacían pésimo. Ahora les dá pena y taquicardia pero todo sale bien.* Las malas amistades han sacado tres discos. El tercero se llama Patio Bonito y salió en el 2007. En Europa salió en julio y en Colombia en agosto.* Una semana, a finales del 2005, fueron la banda más escuchada en una emisora universitaria de Chapel Hill, North Carolina.* Las malas amistades tocan sus propias canciones, aunque han hecho covers también.* Las malas amistades hacen música urbana y melódica, pero precaria y libre.* En el año 2001 fueron invitados a presentarse en el Festival de Performance de Cali.* Ese mismo año ganaron una convocatoria para hacer una exhibición de videos en la Galería Santa Fé. Los videos fueron hechos por artistas basados en canciones de su primer disco.* Las malas amistades empezaron a tocar juntos en 1994.* Cuando comenzaron, la idea era no repetir canciones. Querían inventárselas, grabarlas y seguir adelante. Sólo recientemente descubrieron que ensayar las mismas canciones podía ser sumamente placentero.* Los instrumentos que en la actualidad usan las malas amistades son: una guitarra, un cuatro, tres teclados, una batería electrónica, una melódica y varios instrumentos de percusión. Y la voz humana, claro.* Las malas amistades saben comportarse. No hay nada que temer si los invitan a sus casas.*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ ENGLISH VERSION: _*_*_*_*_*_*_Las Malas Amistades were born in Bogotá, Colombia (South America), in 1994. None of its members were musicians (or intended to become one) but they all liked music. They had met in college, some were art students, the others studied film, so music seemed to be a good meeting point. The idea was just to make music. No dreams of stardom or commercial success or plans to rule the world. The adoring fans would have to come from other activities.Since the first session a routine was established: they would make a song, record it and, once they were happy with it, make another one. No repeats, no playing live, no future: music made in a vacuum, created for its own sake, captured on a tape and listened to whenever the desire arose.“What kind of music do Las Malas Amistades play?”, people ask. Impossible to say. What instruments do you play, then?, people ask next, irritated and assuming that the lack of description is a far-fetched mannerism to leave people intrigued, or, worse, to keep the music to themselves. Well, that is not the idea. The impossibility of description is a fact, anyone that listens to any song can confirm that.The instruments, though, can be listed: there are two keyboards (one is a casiotone, the other a massive pawnshop-found synthesizer), an electronic drumset, an acoustic guitar, a four string guitar (traditionally used for música llanera and called cuatro) and several small percussion gadgets. In some songs the sound is all electronic, in others all acoustic but in most they just mix.Las malas amistades have released three records. The first one, la música de las malas amistades, was released in 1999 and compiled songs from the first five years of the band. The second one, Jardín Interior, was recorded in Bogotá in march 2005 and released the same year by the independent label psych-o-path records. In may of 2006 they recorded a third record, called Patio Bonito, that was released in 2007 by Honest Jons in Europe, and by their own label, Las Malas Grabaciones, in Colombia...