Music experience

Anhelo's both parents are low profile, self taught musicians today. As an early child she had the opportunity to grow up close to relations who had higher music education. She enrolled to basic programs in music for young kids and later she attended to the Faculty of Music of the Autonomous University of Estado de Nuevo León, where she enrolled on a private program for piano lessons for a year. 

Because her interest in music wasn't on the classroom but on the city scene, she quickly dropped music school and taught herself how to play guitar, and so later she played different instruments with a number of bands. 

Bands

Tony Solís photography.
From 2003 to 2006 she played bass guitar and backup vocals with Taladro Supremo, a noisy and experimental punk band today known for being the first band of it's genre that did home tape recordings for independent bands in Southern Monterrey, a community that later became Nene Records, a digital record label that was created with the purpose of drawing attention to their bands to find better deals.

To today, this band hasn't released or published any official work. Although, several home made tapes and mp3s are in the hands of friends and ex band mates.


Sonika Magazine
From 2005 to 2007 she was the front of an alternative rock band, Mamá Burger.

Starting a new band by herself, as a guitarist and a singer brought the opportunity for more songwriting and freedom of creativity. This band received a lot of attention from media around Mexico City, after the release of their first EP, a five song work that Anhelo co-produced with the help of her friend and later band mate Mou, another member of the Nene crew.

Another EP was recorded but still today is in the mixing process and hoping for a future release. Due to members changes and that Anhelo lost interest in this type of music, the band eventually stopped playing.


Published work: 

La Compilación Nene Records 2007 (LP)
(Mamá Burger, tracks 5 & 10)
Free Download at Nene Records' catalog
Nene Records Monterrey NL MX 2007

Mamá Burger, Pastillitas y Licor (EP)
Free Download at Nene Records' catalog
Co-produced with Mou, Carlos Ortiz
Nene Records Monterrey NL MX 2007


2007 to 2010 was the beginning of new experiments. Along with Mou Ortiz, Anhelo picked up her bass guitar, assumed vocals and a digital effect system in XYX, a psychedelic duo that became more popular in the US underground scenes than in their own country. The release of their music took on physical forms, such as the vinyl record and cassette tape. Their material was released by record labels in the United States (Skulltones, S-S Records) and their music played in radio stations such as KDVS Davis, KVRX Austin,  WFMU and more. Click here to find XYX's music on WFMU's free music archive.




Published Work: 

7” vinyl record edited by S-s Records
Co-produced with Mou, Carlos Ortiz
S-s Records Sacramento California USA
Nene Records Monterrey NL MX 2008


7” vinyl record edited by Skulltones
Co-produced with Mou, Carlos Ortiz
Skulltones, Berkeley California USA
Nene Records Monterrey MX 2009






XYX, Teatro Negro (LP)
12" vinyl record edited by Monofonus Press
Co-produced with Mou, Carlos Ortiz
Monofonus Press, Austin Texas USA
Nene Records Monterrey MX 2009-2012





Penetración Cósmica is an electronic-ambient side project produced by Anhelo Escalante and Mou Ortiz. It has been more a studio project than an actual band. Although, there have been live shows and those have always had in common the collaboration of other musicians, specially from noise scenes. PC has performed live in and out of town, and the names of the people that have been invited to join the stage keeps growing: Jaime Martínez (Mr. Pony), Vanilla (Bam Bam), Juana Adcock (Ruidos en el Techo, Terminal Parade), Craig Stewart (Rubble), Victor Gutierrez (Deskonocidos), Jug (The Young), Heath Moerland (Fag Tapes/Sick Llama/Tyvek), Chris Pottinger (Tasty Soil Recs), Chris (Dikes of Holland) - just to name a few.





Published work:

Penetración Cósmica, Penetración Cósmica Vol 1 (LP)
Limited edition 60 minutes cassette tape
Co-produced with Mou Ortiz
Nene Records, Monterrey NL MX 2009

Penetración Cósmica, Penetración Cósmica Vol 2 (LP)
Limited edition 60 minutes cassette tape
Co-produced with Mou Ortiz
Nene Records, Monterrey NL MX 2009

Penetración Cósmica i, compiled (LP)
Nene Records, Monterrey NL MX 2010




Solo Projects

El Tostador
2009. El Tostador (the toaster) was a one year project - blog that Anhelo updated every week with a rebajada song, which is a slowed down edit version. Following the tradition of the cumbia rebajada in Monterrey, similar to what it's known in the USA as Chopped and Screwed, Anhelo decided she wanted to remix her favorite tunes, this time giving the opportunity to a different audience (not in the cumbia or the hip-hop scene) to enjoy a different way of listening to music, in this case, most of it, the mexican ballad from the 60s to the 80s. This blog is no longer available today. Anhelo is currently deciding what to do with all the tracks she accumulated over a year. There is a collaboration project of El Tostador and Steve Kenney that was just released on cassette tape by Green Records And Tapes. GET IT HERE.




6 Días en Clona
Ending up with tons of leftover recording tracks that didn't make it to any albums for Penetración Cósmica, or collaborations on experiments with friends, was the push for her next project, 6 días en Clona (6 days on clonazepam). Something had to be done with all those sounds that didn't want to be destroyed and forgotten; they could still be reused and tweaked. Accompanied by a synthesizer and layers of vocals, this project was not ever meant to see the light outside of Anhelo's bedroom, until Andrew Coltrane asked her if she wanted to put something out on Hermitage Tapes. A 30 minute cassette tape was released in 2010. Order one with me. Use the QUESTIONS/CONTACT tab so I can reach you.

Pecespacio Sideral by 6diasenclona

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