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Last Updated: 12/1/2009

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Monday, December 21, 2009 
hello   friends  and families   helpers and listeners

we just wanted to say thanks  to  everyone who helped   tristeza  make this  last west coast  tour one of  the best times we have had playing out in the u.s in a very long time!!!!   also canada and mexico were great!!!  

its so  nice to know we can still connect with so many wonderful people through our music!!!

so far the response for the new album has been wonderful and we feel so lucky and appreciated ......!!!!         

our   plan is   to put   another new   album we have  at least half written  in mid 2010!!!

thanks again  for all the support!!!!


happy holidays

tristeza



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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 
Tristeza - City Gaze 
 

cassette (SM05) 45min tape $10 inc. shipping! ORDER HERE!

http://sanitymuffins.blogspot.com/



Tristeza -City Gaze cassette (SM05)
limited edition of 136 signed copies. muliti-colored gocco printed artwork. no 2 alike! this 45 min tape features outakes from the new Fate Unfolds album plus kraut basement moods and analog beats featuring tr-808,cr-68 etc.... no laptops just analog scapes!!!! tape feautures unreleased material. these will go fast! buy it now or grab one on upcoming west coast tour...japan and europe to come...
Tristeza -City Gaze Cassette
USA $10.00Outside USA $12.00Option 3 $10.00
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 
Hello everyone,

There has been a change of venue for our Mexicali date.  The show will now be at Tumbao Tropical Disco, Av. Reforma 1082, Mexicali, B.C. 21100.

See you there!  -TRISTEZA
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Monday, November 16, 2009 
Hello Everyone,

Here are two videos for the song 'Tensiòn Futura' from "Fate Unfolds".  The first is by our buddy Ryan Moser.  Thanks Ryan!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aeVG4Lo2u4

The other is a more lo-fi version made by our drummer.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOua0WVMutQ

Enjoy!  -TRISTEZA
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Sunday, November 15, 2009 
Hola amigos!

Our new album can be sampled/streamed on muxtape.com, and it features a free download of "Manitas".  http://trstz.muxtape.com/

And the same goes for last.fm.  http://www.last.fm/music/Tristeza/Fate+Unfolds

Thanks for checking it out and all the support!  -TRISTEZA

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Sunday, November 08, 2009 
Hello everyone!

Here is a cool review of our new album from 'Lost At E Minor' blog:

http://www.lostateminor.com/2009/11/04/tristezas-new-album-fate-unfolds/

...and a couple of video clips that got dug up recenetly.  The first is a portion of the song "Aereoaviones" filmed in August, 2007 at the Metamorphose Festival in the mountains of Japan.  Please note that our set time was at 6:00am and it was a hot and humid 90 degrees already!  It features BLKLN on guitar and Sean Ogilvie on keys.


http://www.dax.tv/?item=313


This one was dug up by a fan from our Feb, 2002 gig at Brownies in New York City.
The first half of this song is unreleased, and the second half is what became "Stumble On Air".  This was our last U.S. tour with Jimmy LaValle on Guitar.  Eric Hinojosa is on keys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rZJgUVhxVo

Enjoy!  -TRISTEZA


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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 
Hello Everyone!

The "Fate Unfolds" vinyl is in production and will be available on tour.  The digital release date is still pending, but we will post that information as soon as it is official, as well as information on how to order the vinyl.

Our good friend Alejandro Magaña of the experimental/noise band Voices wrote the bio for our new album:

Greil Marcus said, "Everyone knows history moves in circles; the surprise is how big the circles are." But the reverse is true too, history is made of small circles and all those little circles make up bigger ones and so forth. Looking at Tristeza record covers one is struck by the reoccurrence of gyrational imagery. Circles spin out and away, interlink, break apart. Tristeza are in some sense about the gyre of time, ever widening and then narrowing, contracting. Eschewing those who would lump them into the amorphous category of post-rock, dubious of quiet-loud-quiet formulae, and circumspect towards musical individuality and the sense of One Big Song, the spirit they imbue a record with is the timeless love of musicians keeping time. By that I mean the world, its age, groaning and creaking underneath it.

As circles tighten, pop music tends to repeat itself unable to see beyond horizons of more than a decade in time, and this band, Tristeza, and this new album, Fate Unfolds, continues widening their cycles, past but not post, past a simple generational genre, part and parcel with music from around the world, from their homes and homelands in Tijuana, B.C., Oakland, CA or Michigan, from Afro funk and jazz, Spanish flamenco, tropicalia, Indian raga, to krautrock, and psyche to punk. From the record's start with its title "Ava", this is a thoughtful, spiritual flight. The time-space continuum crushed into itself and pulled out from itself, a shed snake skin.

Luís, Christopher, and Jimmy are Tristeza. They're all fathers now, getting wiser as they get older. "Castellón" reflects this with a graceful, yet shadowy noír tone combined with the band's classic circular sonic yearning suggesting some mystery at the beginning of a quest. Though separated geographically in their day-to-day, they make sure that when they're together the music locks in tight as ever, so there's a driving force here that seems downright celebratory. "Blkflmngo"is a scorching African-influenced ripper with a spiky get-down guitar figure that makes one want to dance to keep up with Jims' commanding tom rolls. Hopeless romantic Tristeza fans should be intoxicated and take psychic vacations to "Floripa", a song for forlorn lovers and fighters so marooned in tropical climes you can almost hear the ocean tide cascading in the background. "Celestians" and "Street Tax" are propulsive exemplars of their intricate rhythmic mastery, employing just the right slippery textures of analog synth to pull out the spidery dark krautfunk of the bass and drums. These could've been recorded at Can's Inner Space Studios circa '71.

The album ends with "The Punch" and thats exactly what it seems to do. Its adorned with all those technical aspects that make the members of this band particularly musicians' musicians: the rhythm and riffage, the shimmery circularity that reaches a crescendo and denouement with synth spilling into real saxophone before the fadeout, all framed tightly with a snare sharpened punk beat. This is vintage Tristeza staking ground like a classic pugilist; life and death in the nimble waltz of Mexican calaveras, the joy and the sadness, la tristeza, the impossibility of one without the other. Like the old maríachís, ni de allí, ni de acá, they are between worlds, and eternally fighting the good fight.

Also available on tour will be a limited edition cassette album entitled "City Gaze", released by Sanity Muffin.  It is 20 tracks/45 min. of moody, soundtracky, minimal, eclectic music, all of which was recorded in the last 3 years, along side our new album.  Add Sanity Muffin to your Myspace friends!   www.myspace.com/sanitymuffin

We're looing very forward to tour!  See you soon!  -T R I S T E Z A



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Sunday, September 20, 2009 
We've posted CONFIRMED dates in our profile.  There will be more TBC dates added soon.  Please help us spread the word!

12/1/2009 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe Place
12/2/2009 Chico, CA @ Cafe Coda
12/3/2009 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
12/4/2009 Seattle, WA  @ Sunset Tavern
12/5/2009 Yakima, WA @ Yakima Sports Center
12/6/2009 Vancouver, BC  @ Media Club
12/8/2009 Sacramento, CA @ Blue Lamp
12/9/2009 San Francisco, CA  @ Bottom of the Hill
12/10/2009 Visalia, CA  @ Cellar Door
12/11/2009 Los Angeles, CA  @Spaceland
12/12/2009 San Diego, CA  @ Casbah
12/13/2009 Tijuana, BC @ TBD

Drew Andrews(Album Leaf) will be support act and our keyboardist on this tour.

Thanks!  -T R I S T E Z A


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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 
HELLO EVERYONE! 

We have some good and bad news to report...  The bad is that the FATE UNFOLDS release date has been pushed back, again, due to delays in the vinyl mastering and artwork.  We assure you, however, that the album WILL be released in late November now.  Better Looking Records will release the digital version, and Wildlife vinyl is releasing the 12" version.  There will not be a U.S. cd version of the album, however.   Our dear friend/brother Billy Sprague (aka Galena) is doing the art for this release.

The tracklistings are:

digital

01)  CASTELLÒN
02)  FLORIPA
03)  BLKFLMNGO
04)  CELESTIANS
05)  HAZED
06)  MANITAS
07)  MR. BEAT/STREET TAX
08)  TENSIÒN FUTURA
09)  CAMCO
10)  THE PUNCH

12"

a
01)  AVA
02)  CASTELLÒN
03)  FLORIPA
04)  BLKFLMNGO
05)  CELESTIANS
06)  HAZED
b
01)  TURQUOISE HEART
02)  MANITAS
03)  MR. BEAT/STREET TAX
04)  TENSIÒN FUTURA
05)  CAMCO
06)  THE PUNCH


The good news is that we are touring again during the first two weeks of Decmber in support of the release.  We will be playing many shows on the West Coast between, and including, Vancouver and Tijuana.  Check our tour dates, more will be confirmed!  Until then, thanks so much for the patience and support!  -T R I S T E Z A 

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