from monument to masses

my camarada & recent compañero de trabajo/co-conspirator sergio is sort of a jack of all trades.

for one thing he's kind of a rock star. for reals. as in he's played shows all over the us, uk, continental europe, and japan. as in he's one-third of this band, from monument to masses which plays its last show ever tonight at the great american music hall in sf. what kind of music? ummmm... post-rock? i admit to not really knowing exactly what that means except that it's the kind of music like electrelane or stereolab... maybe?? like heavy on the instrumental, light on the vocals, structurally unorthodox. i think. and in the case of fmtm anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist. ok, good.

it's the last weekend of august. weddings, birthday parties, panteon rococo... all kinds of good places to be. but maybe you also need to be at gamh to see fmtm? i hear they put on a great show :)

from monument to masses
the final show
tonight! saturday, 28 august
@ great american music hall, san francisco
doors: 8pm, show: 9
$15

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the quiet before (thunderbirds are now! mix)




deafening




comrades & friends (loquat mix)




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wow. on defening that's a translation of victor jara's last poem, written just before his assassination in the estadio chile (audio here by his widow?). beautiful.

but suddenly my conscience awakes
and i see that this tide has no heartbeat,
only the pulse of machines
and the military showing their midwives’ faces
full of sweetness.
...

how hard it is to sing
when i must sing of horror.
...

to see myself among so much
and so many moments of infinity
in which silence & screams
are the end of my song.

what i see, i have never seen
what i have felt and what i feel
will give birth to the moment…...