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Interview: Chicano Batman On 'Invisible People' And LA Vibes

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The music of the band Chicano Batman has long defied genre. Funk, psychedelic, soul, indie — it's all these things and more. Sam talks to band members Carlos Arévalo and Bardo Martinez about their new album, Invisible People, what it's like not to be able to tour and how their music is the ultimate reflection of their hometown, Los Angeles.

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0:00.0

Usually when a band is doing a music interview for a new album,

0:03.3

they come into a nice studio with fancy mics and engineers,

0:07.3

they sit down, they talk about the album, and they perhaps play a few songs together

0:12.1

in that studio with the perfect acoustics and all the bells and whistles.

0:17.2

But because of coronavirus, you can't really do that right now.

0:20.8

Okay, sounds good. And then what do you want me to do with this one?

0:24.1

So for this interview, the band Chicano Batman had to be a part,

0:28.2

and they had to handle all the technical stuff themselves.

0:31.2

I won't explain too much, but basically this meant that each band member I talked to

0:35.2

had to hold two phones, the entire interview,

0:38.5

one to listen to me, and one to record themselves.

0:41.7

It was a lot.

0:42.4

Yeah, so it's a, yeah, I got it like at 25% for the instructions.

0:47.6

Yeah, I think it's recording.

0:49.2

Yeah.

0:49.9

The band members couldn't see me, and they couldn't even see each other,

0:53.4

because they were a part two.

0:55.1

Hello, hello, I'm speaking to half of Chicano Batman right now.

0:58.9

How are you?

0:59.7

Good. Good, man.

1:00.8

Just right here, just talking on two phones.

1:03.0

Hi, Jackie, my, hi, Jackie, my white phone.

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