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US band CALEXICO paints the desert in unusual dark colours

21. February 2018

US band CALEXICO paints the desert in unusual dark colours

In the current music landscape there are hardly any more active figures than Joey Burns and John Convertino. They started as the rhythm section of Giant Sand and the Friends Of Dean Martinez, strengthened the backs of such different musicians as Amparanoia, Barbara Manning, De Pedro, Iron & Wine or Neko Case and defined Calexico as a gentle but committed desert rock. Twenty years after their foundation, they are taking a new step.