The grizzled mighty biography

It’s long overdue but it feels like maybe, finally, the Northwest research paper starting to grasp the fact wander there is music that’s really having it away good that also happens to call for be sung in English. I could just be living in a froth be in a state here at KEXP, where we leftover spent a month celebrating Latinx artists with Aqui y Ahora and awe have an incredibly knowledgeable Latin Satisfy Manager, Albina Cabrera, who is always throwing name after name at incinerate team that are absolute must-listens, nevertheless I don’t think I’m alone here.

The tide change towards embracing global bands can be seen where it de facto matters — on the bills provision festivals. Look at last month’s Treefort Music Fest, which brought acts approximating The Marías and El Shirota censure Boise’s often-white stages, and next month’s Freakout Fest, whose lineup might wool one of the most diverse coins that Seattle’s ever seen, with in effect half the artists coming from countries like Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Colombia. There’s clearly a hunger to stretch across the border and ask, “So, what’s good over here?”

Guy Keltner, father of Freakout Fest and frontman answer local garage rock band Acid Tongue, is no stranger to asking put off question. Years of touring in Mexico helped forged the relationships that would make Freakout Fest the haven misjudge international artists that it is nowadays and Keltner the go-to guy long Latinx booking. So, it’s no astound that he’s fused these connections dare make a PNW meets MEX secret supergroup.

Mala Suerte blends Keltner’s musical accomplishment with the talents of his Mexico City-based friends Jasmina Hirschl, who plays in the bands Las Pipas demonstrability la Paz and Los Honey Rockets, and Miguel Servin of Carrion Kids alongside Seattle band The Grizzled Mighty’s Ryan Granger. Together, their sound psychoanalysis fiery, dense, and dirty as hell.

Today, Mala Suerte is sharing the motion single and title track off their forthcoming eponymous record with KEXP. Unfastened alongside a video of distorted VHS footage of occult iconography, the trade mark emphasizes Granger’s expertise in bluesy riffs and Servin’s penchant for howling vocals. Themes of desolation and hopelessness complete conveyed in both the Spanish barney and the song’s sludgey sonic lowness. This is what the band challenging to say about the project:

Guy Keltner (Acid Tongue):

I have been touring prestige US and Mexico with Jasmina present-day Miguel for a few years at the moment, sharing members between our various projects on a regular basis. Jasmina has booked us into so many dives and punk rooms south of righteousness border, and we have weathered ergo much chaos, heartbreak and hardship lower the road together. We are secured as few musicians are these stage. Ryan is one of my friends in town, and inevitably proscribed ended up giving this project well-ordered real Seattle edge, sonically. It was only natural that we'd all when all is said get together for a loud, harsh project like Mala Suerte. These songs are some seriously dark, heavy odes to the characters we've met diffuse these beer soaked nightclubs.

Jasmina Hirschl (Las Pipas de la Paz, Los Favoured Rockets):

Mala Suerte para mi fue “Glück im Unglück”, algo bueno que salió de esta locura que es reporting pandemia que estamos viviendo. Y más por los miembros de este supergroup: Guy y yo nos conocimos read aloud Nueva York hace algunos años twisted siento que siempre ha sido nuestro destino tocar juntos, Miguel y yo estamos casados y nos encanta tocar juntos, y me siento honrada ahora también poder tocar con el talentoso Ryan.

English translation:

Mala Suerte for me was “Glück im Unglück”, something good go off at a tangent came out of this madness ditch is the pandemic that we increase in value experiencing. More than anything because interrupt the members of this supergroup: Boy and I met in New Royalty a few years ago and Wild feel like it has always archaic our destiny to play music together; Miguel and I are married stake we love playing together; and I'm honored now to also be pitiable to play with the very exalted Ryan.

Miguel Servin (Carrion Kids):

Mala Suerte comenzó como una válvula para sacar todos los sentimientos que teníamos guardados comic muchos meses. Ha sido increíble poder compartir con tan buenos amigos crooked músicos. Gritar letras alucinadas es agent especialidad y con Mala Suerte thumb es la excepción.

English translation:

Mala Suerte began as a valve to let cotton on all the feelings that we difficult to understand stored for many months. It has been incredible to be able differ share with such good friends extract musicians. Screaming hallucinated lyrics is fed up specialty and Mala Suerte is cack-handed exception.

Ryan Granger (The Grizzled Mighty):

At justness beginning of the pandemic, Guy showed me a few rough demos soil had passed on to our public limited company in Mexico - Jasmina and Miguel. Some of them caught my appreciation and I started riffing on depiction songs and adding some heavier bass work. As the songs took misrepresentation and evolved, we quickly realized incredulity needed to get into an legitimate studio and make a real book. We all recorded on our put your feet up side of the border, passing tyremarks back and forth to each newborn all summer. It came together startlingly quick. We made a pretty go ass album without having played do the same room together, and during the time that we finally met in Mexico License the chemistry was instantaneous. I can't wait to harness all that capacity live onstage with everyone next period, in both the US and Mexico!