Logos, by Dos Santos

Logos

by Dos Santos

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kim carsons I'm so besotted by this album, - the right thing at the right time...
Favorite track - all of them.

World of Echo Here's hoping International Anthem releases more Latinx alternative in the future because this album is the jam!

Giacomo Bruzzo Extra-Ordinary Recording - Bravo Bravo Bravo! This is legend material.

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Shiny compact disc in 4-panel digipack with 12-page insert booklet featuring lyrics, band photos and album info.

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IARC0019 - Blue in Clear Vinyl LP
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Blue in Clear colored vinyl LP packaged in deluxe heavyweight linen-stock tip-on jacket, with IARC obi strip & dome patterned inner sleeve. Package includes 12 page glossy insert booklet with English/Spanish lyrics & photos of the band. Only 222 copies in existence, its all black from there on.

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IARC0019 - Classic Black Vinyl LP
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Classic Black 12" vinyl LP packaged in deluxe heavyweight linen-stock tip-on jacket, with IARC obi strip & dome patterned inner sleeve. Package includes 12 page glossy insert booklet with English/Spanish lyrics & photos of the band.

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1.	acábame 03:28	buy track
2.	córdva 05:07	buy track
3.	return y regreso 04:14	buy track
4.	logos 03:49	buy track
5.	caminante 04:29	buy track
6.	purísima 05:26	buy track
7.	manos ajenas (touch you every day) 02:34	buy track
8.	how far are we from here? 02:40	buy track
9.	coda 02:04	buy track
10.	sole party 03:40	buy track
11.	(you are) my revolution 04:20	buy track

about

Dos Santos is a quintet just 5 years working in Chicago but already established as one of the city’s most potent, impactful performers. A band known to be at home in a broad spectrum of venues and contexts – as proficient at nailing epic progressive arrangements for summer street festivals in the Latinx culture hub of Pilsen as they are at extended improvisational, experimental cumbia sets on the jazz-centric cabaret stage of the California Clipper, or the Chinook Lounge of The Hideout – Dos Santos’s elasticity & consistency in live performance has earned them an enthusiastic & highly diverse audience in the too-often segregated Chicago music scene. In recorded output, the sound established by their first EPs & singles garnered them wider attention for their ability to rekindle & re-present vintage sounds. But anyone with more than a distant perspective on their musicianship & aesthetics would know not to over-simplify Dos Santos as purely a psychedelic/cumbia revivalist outfit. Dos Santos have been steadily tipping forward into something more future-minded & universal this whole time, something that transcends the nationalism many of us are desperately trying to depart from, but don’t have the vocabulary to fully escape. "Logos," their International Anthem debut, is a bold & vulnerable push into this transcendence, the band’s effort to proactively poeticize the future in sound.

“Chicago-born,” “progressive,” “boundary defying,” & “unique sounds” are all sentiments from our label’s mission statement. And though, on the surface, Dos Santos may seem like a departure in the narrative flow of our catalogue & community, this band & this album truly epitomize what we strive to cultivate & present. Over several Summer 2017 sessions at IARC HQ Co-Prosperity Sphere, the Wayward Machine Co storefront & the basement of Dos Santos drummer Daniel Villarreal-Carrillo’s home (all on the same 3200 block of Morgan Street in the Southside Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport), the band settled into comfortable confines with The Daves (engineers Vettraino & Allen), making space to improvise, incubate & innovate. What’s heard on the ultimate product of this homegrown process (Logos) is Dos Santos laying their voices bare, at once aware of cultural context, informed by aesthetic precursors, and yet fully irreverent to expectations or how any of this might be “appropriately” employed. Whether through the balladic melodrama of “caminante,” the noir-cumbia refrains of “purísima,” the afro-psych gallup of the title track “logos” (which features the Antibalas horn section), the Tortoise on TNT-resounding guitar phrases of “coda,” or the Tame Impala-like Juno synths of “manos ajenas (touch you every day),” each composition offers a bridge into a sonic landscape that speaks to histories of migration and arts of living that have been central to everything from house music to blues, Latinx punk to salsa in the City of Chicago. Logos presents an idealized new progressive American music, as rooted in Chicago as it is communicable with the world.

credits

released June 15, 2018

Alex Chavez - vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion
Jaime Garza - electric bass
Nathan Karagianis - guitar, vocals
Peter "Maestro" Vale - congas, percussion
Daniel Villarreal Carrillo - drums, percussion

w/ cameos by
Ben LaMar Gay - cornet (on "return y regreso" and "caminante")
Roger Reeves - spoken word (on "sole party")
and the ANTIBALAS horn section
Martín Perna - baritone saxophone
Morgan Price - tenor saxophone
Jordan McLean - trumpet
Eric Biondo - trumpet
arranged by Nick Mazzarella (on "logos" and "(you are) my revolution")

Recorded & Mixed by Dave Vettraino & David Allen.
Edited by Alex Chavez & Dave Vettraino.
Mastered by Shelly Steffens.
Artwork & Design by Craig Hansen.
Executive Production by Scott McNiece.

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