[ IMMEDIATE RELEASE ]
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19TH
New York City
NACOTHEQUE
presents
AMANDITITITA
NEW YORK, NY - On Sat, October 24th Nacotheque will present the queen of anarcumbia Amandititita from Mexico City (filming scenes for a music video) which will also be the official Halloween costume party and the last Nacotheque party of 2009 at Fontana’s!
For the past two years the producers of Nacotheque Marcelo Cunning and
Amylu Meneses held a bi-month party in the basement of Fontana’s. After
many fun-filled nights the producers decided to go back to doing
one-off special events.
The Nacotheque parties have been going
on for three and a half years in NYC and the producers assure everyone
the party’s not over yet.
On October 10th JUAN SON'S successful live performance at Nacotheque had a special guest apperance by JOHN CAMERON MTICHELL (Headwig and the Angry Inch & Shortbus) to sing a cover of Cheap Trick's "I want you to want me" with JUAN SON. Take a look at the live video HERE the party pictures HERE.
Live performance:
Oct, 26 – Amandititita (also filming scenes for her new music video)
Cover: $10 at the door / $8 w/ RSVP@shawpromotion.com
Location: Fontana’s (in the basement) - 105 Eldridge St btwn Broome & Grand St.
Time: 11:00PM – 4AM
Age Limit: 21+ w/ ID
OPEN BAR: 11pm - 12am SVEDKA Vodka
THE ANARCHUMBIA QUEEN - Anarcumbia
definition: Anarchist cumbia, sarcastic satire of everyday life.
Amandititita definition: A very short form for her name, Amanda
Escalante. Born in Tampico,Tamaulipas, Mexico on the third day of
August,l979. Studied at SOGEM The General Society of Mexican Writers
and later on at Escuela Dinámica de Escritores (Dynamic School of
Writers), directed by Mario Bellatin. Among her teachrers were Elsa
Cross, Daniel Sada, Sergio Pitol, Hugo Arguelles and Guillermo
Fadanelli. She studied Drama with French teacher Phillipe Eustachon and
performed at the Mexico City Museum and Ollin Yoliztli Theater. She
writes stories and novels but for the time being she writes songs, and
performs them with colored crinolines.
At 14, she started
writing poetry and stories. But her appearance in the world of music
was only five years ago. Lyrics were written on napkins due to the lack
of a computer and over karaoke tracks she placed the lyrics. With these
simple songs she sang in different places in Mexico and Europe. Until
she found a piece of paper that read “If you have lyrics but you are
missing the music... Call now!” She called, and behind the phone
speaker she found a composer that for 600 pesos made the music for
METROSEXUAL, LA MATA VIEJITAS, LA MUY MUY, LA MICROBUSERA and others.
At the time she was living in a single room on the top floor of a
building, but in Condesa. She made 3000 pesos a month working in an
advertisement agency, spent 2000 on rent, and had to manage how to make
ends meet, buying food, and saving to pay for the music of her songs.
All a social phenomenon. Relentless fighter for freedom of speech. Her
songs have urban themes, with a hidden social criticism. Her songs tell
about the slums, the dark side of Mexico, places that generally do not
inspire to make a song, like a government office where the secretary
who is in love with the manager, (Viernes de Quincena), the frustrated
wife with a drunk husband, (A Chingar Te Vas), or a nurse that kills
old ladies, or a dark skin woman that wants to be blonde to be on TV
(La Güera Televisa), or the typical man who extremely worries about his
body, (Metrosexual). Amanditita is inspired by the everyday news. Her
songs are played on commercial radio stations, in La Que Buena and Exa,
because her lyrics are rock but her music is cumbia, it is a popular
product.