A. Cardott
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Anthony Cardott (*1984) is an artist from Aromas, California living in Santa Cruz since 2006, where he took a bachelor's degree in Language Studies in 2009. He has played electric bass for Happy Meal, The Midnight Snack, Sad Monsters and The Doldrums. He also busks and records albums of his songs as El Chon. He occasionally publishes comic books, posters and short stories. Cardott is able to converse in English, Spanish and German. He is aggressively pro-self-determination for the arts, and vocally against the entertainment and art industries. He also plants trees and native plants in the woods as art instead of painting or sculpture. His largest project was a section of woods in the Delaveaga Park where he attempted to nurture transplanted redwood clones; the project was not successful. Cardott's work began to trickle into Santa Cruz in the early oughts, as he'd sell noise CDs called Fleshhook and a comic series called La Loteria at Streetlight Records. In 2005 he entered comics into the $19.99 art sale at the SCICA's ? Gallery, for which he was paid with a bad check; when he tried to get a new check the SCICA was evasive and never reembursed his bank fines nor the money for the comics. His first comic piece to gain attention was Workin for the Weekend, a sarcastic look at life in Santa Cruz County.
He currently is also performing in the punk-performance art group Dead Daughter with his brother Denney and writing music and fiction. He took time off from performing for the rest of 2009 to work on a novella called La Darsena, which remains online at http://acardott.wordpress.com to be downloaded and read for free, and was published online in serial form bywww.beyondchron.org from September to October 2009.
[edit] El Chon
Following several years of playing in punk bands, Cardott turned to folk music performance tactics around 2005 as his guitar abilities came to a workable level. He plays in the street and in houses the most, and with friends like The Broads and Misty Mountain. In March 2007 he released his first album, "Quake Weather," recorded by A. Ron Emmert at the Silent Planet in Corralitos, and sent it first to several college radio stations on the west coast. The album contains songs sung in English and Spanish. During the summer he applied his inclination to perform often for small groups to his travels in Washington, where he performed in Olympia and Seattle in the homes of friends without any planning. In August 2007 he recorded the radio jingle for the Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery; the jingle played on all wavelengths of KPIG for about a year. He was paid for this service with a $100 bar tab. Cardott does not solicit record labels, dislikes recording and hearing himself, and books performances on a handshake. He intends to cover most of California, one small town at a time, as he believes that playing big cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are not especially productive destinations due to the generally low popularity of his style. He has played in Prunedale, Sausalito, Chico, Davis, Claremont, Palo Alto, Berkeley and Gilroy, to name a few. He released his second album, "Rage," in March 2008, recorded at Zach Patten's home. There is only one song in the nameless selections sung in Spanish. Cardott spent the months between early April and late July 2008 in the renowned university town of Göttingen, Germany, as part of his studies at the University of California. He performed only once in a bar for free beer and at a handful of informal parties.In the autumn he performed in various cities around Los Angeles county. During the winter of 2009 he performed several times at UCSC and at parties in Santa Cruz, and maintains a relationship with the promoters from This is Not a Record Label. -External Links-
http://www.myspace.com/acsquats
http://www.last.fm/music/el_chon
