XIXA * Golden Boots at Flagstaffs Greenroom

January 26, 2017 8:00PM - 11:59PM at The Green Room

XIXA -
The desert has a frequency, a sound you can hear in the wilds around. XIXA tunes in and warps it, in glittering, gritty psychedelic cumbia. The band hails from the Tucson indie rock scene; core members Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan are integral part of Giant Sand’s current incarnation, in the past produced, toured or recorded with the likes of William Sedlmayr, KT Tunstall, Calexico. But XIXA wanders far and wide, into the psychedelia of Amazon backwaters, the bumping grind of chicha, quirky electronics, loud indie-rock and desert blues, surrounded by the obscure side of the American southwest. At turns rough and raw, scintillating and ethereal, the band evokes the stark magic and eeriness of the desert, in tracks that sound effortless, despite disparate source materials.

"In our work together with XIXA, we were going for a Desert Noir vibe. The shadowy figure in the pictures is based on a sketch of a character I was thinking about after a conversation Gabriel and I had about sleep paralysis. It's also reminiscent of ‘La Llorona,’ the weeping ghost of the southwest."

XIXA hones in on new sounds in very old places, regardless of bloodline.

Golden Boots-
Golden Boots is an alt-alt crumbly western falling-rock band from the American Southwest- home to open spaces, Roy Rogers, and the hydrogen bomb.
A warped and fractured mixture of psychedelic rock, folk and country combining stylistic modes as bizarre and varied as the lyrical meanderings.

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