Introducing "Pulpo & Friends" Album
The invention of DIY in contemporary artistic expression;
The notion of place has been replaced by the notion of fluidity. A small contextualisation comment.
Art has acquired its legitimacy by being produced, advertised and reproduced in geographical centres that monopolise knowledge and the informational networks derived. By this occupation of such knowledge and tradition, a discourse of what it is considered to be Art is legitimised. So Art would be transversely compared to trends of Luxus, Entertainment and Societal discourses in "vogue" to be named after them to validate Art as a binary response to such trends. The conversations of the Elites.But the importance and stability of such of art;culture producing centres is being slowly depleted of their relative importance. Street Art has showed us that!
a "Place" of Art production is any given human symbolic interaction embedded in time that is consciously identified as worth of being shared, its the construction of our own subjective fragile concept of beauty, of happiness and of transcendence.
All of these concepts are being worked in the first new album of EFF Music Experience, a "situated art" producing collective whose artistic standpoint can be resumed in using intimate artistic expressions as a way of catalyse of modern woes in Young Families which life are not represented or poorly depicted in mainstream media. It is a generation with no identitarian struggle or in need of a political recognition but rather, a forgotten part of society that is struggling with its own levels of comfort. Drowning in career expectations, boredom and kids.
Since there is no emergency or real threat to this population, (we all are dying slowly of and by asking to ourselves: what should I be really doing now? Does this have any sense?) EFF ME attempt consists in ordering ideas and emotions to produce a dialogue with reality that could be somehow appreciated. It can be seen as just as a stone thrown in the ocean but the process is still that of sucking up sense out of pain and moments of weakness and be able to produce something intimate; theirs, special... EFF Collective is producing art to be able to look back at itself: an interactive mirror where its members can see their emotions transforming.
In an era of place this would have never seen the light, but it is because of the fluidity of concepts and information that this album could overcome issues like geographical distance and different cultures. And this not only by using the means technology makes available but also by allowing themselves to be artist, to see themselves in that way, a fluidity in the considerations about oneself, a construction of a cathartic other.
The Album (and the affirmation that it is possible)
Full of Pop culture (it is an idea for a cartoon, Legos in one of the videos, etc.) Hi! Pulpo is a first try of exploring musical and plastic expression with a certain "detachment". Hi Pulpo started as a practical joke but it represents actually the consolidation of the idea of exploring expression through and with the help of family dynamics in modern urban settings. So it had to be a cartoon! Kids of the band members participated as invited musicians an appeared in some of the videos.Pulpo and Friends is a psychedelic celebration of life like its introduction theme Hi Pulpo or an Ode to Humanism like Shut Up...
Pulpo and Friends is also an active modern moaning like we can hear in Time
Or a pretentious and assumed environmentalism obviously in Mexico Gulf
Or out of space dub like End Pulpo
As an early stage work and an affirmation statement that creativity can be always nurtured, I let you now to explore these life moments...
Enjoy the album and I wanna thank the collective for giving me the opportunity to introduce this album to the public.
Cheers,
Abelardo
Pulpo & Friends (Hi Pulpo, Time, Shut Up, Mexico Gulf, End Pulpo) by EFF Collective is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://effcollective.blogspot.com/.
