Ernest Gonzales
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- Bio: After two releases in their successful Friends of Friends series, FoF is gearing up for their first ever full-length release. Out in February '10 , the 'Been Meaning to Tell You ... (more)
- Bio: After two releases in their successful Friends of Friends series, FoF is gearing up for their first ever full-length release. Out in February '10 , the 'Been Meaning to Tell You' LP by Ernest Gonzales, owner of San Antonio's Exponential Records. In anticipation of this exciting and intricate release, Friends of Friends and EG are releasing the Self-Awakening EP featuring two original tracks, and remixes/covers by friends Faunts, Take, CYNE, Mexicans with Guns and Yppah!
"The title Self Awakening refers to the final scene of the film [Vanilla Sky] when the main character, David, needs to make a choice to continue living in a lucid dream or overcome a giant fear to live in the real world. 'The sweet is never as sweet without the sour' -these words are some of the last bits of advice given to David...a very resonating message in my mind".
Gonzales' music offers up sonic interpretations of that sweet and the sour mixing organic and artificial sounds to create an elaborate experience of guitar meeting textured and careful electronics.
Having been asked to invite friends for a "covers album", EG began asking homies to get involved in the project; the EP is rounded out by a number of those covers and remixes turned in from friends. Canadian post-rock band Faunts (Friendly Fire Recordings) and LA beatsmith Take (aka Sweatson Klank, known for his remix work with Flying Lotus) both bring their perspective to "Self Awakening" whilr EP also features an invigorating version of "I'm Here You're There" by Mexicans With Guns, dubstep remixer of the Faunts, Bassnectar, among others and a remix of Gonzales' "Etchasketch Trees" by Yppah (Joe Corrales Jr.), best known for his work on UK label Ninja Tune.
"Self-Awakening" offers a delightful taste of what's to come on 'Been Meaning to Tell' You, which features Friends of Friends' trademark ingenuity of being much more than an album. The LP will be released alongside an entire album of 16 remixes and covers curated by FoF and EG including Daedelus(Ninja Tune), Aether(Exponential), Copy(Audio Dregs), the remixers from this EP and more... Additionally, the album will come with a book of artists' visual interpretations of the songs, along with Gonzales' own notes on each track(available with digital purchase or in physical form w/ download card!).. Tall Corn Music will also be issuing a 180g white-vinyl pressing of the album including downloads for the album, covers album and .pdf of the art book.
'Been Meaning to Tell You' will be released February 2010. (less)
I'm Here You're There (Mexicans with Guns Remix)
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From the album:
Self Awakening EP
