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A. Cardott
Anthony Cardott (*1984) is an artist from Aromas, California living in Santa Cruz from 2006 to 2010, where he took a bachelor's degree in Language Studies in 2009 from the UC. 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 Chón. He occasionally publishes comic books, posters and short stories. Cardott is functionally literate in English, Spanish and German.
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 satirical portrait of Santa Cruz County.
His largest ecology art project was a section of woods in the Delaveaga Park from Spring 2007 to Spring 2008, where he attempted to nurture transplanted redwood clones to maturity; the project was not successful.
He took time off from performing for much of 2009 to work on a novella called La Dársena, which was published online in serial form by www.beyondchron.org from September to October 2009, and later made available as a revised novel on Kindle at Amazon. During the beginning of 2009 he helped organize online music collaborations with Synthia Payne and spoke on KZSC about playing bass with musicians across the world over the internet. In the summer or 2010 he began contributing to zines again, collaborating with Denney Cardott and Courtney Dragge. In August 2010 Cardott moved to Mankato, Minnesota, and then in June 2011 to San Jose, California.
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Following several years of playing in punk bands, Cardott turned to folk music performance tactics around 2005, performing with friends like The Broads and Misty Mountain. 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.
Cardott spent the months between early April and late July 2008 in the 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. 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 maintained a relationship with the promoters from This is Not a Record Label. In January 2010 he and David Novick toured California as El Chón and San Francisco Watercooler, respectively, performing in San Diego and Isla Vista, and they performed on the air for radio stations KDVS in Davis and KCSB in Santa Barbara.
Releases:
"Quake Weather" CD 2007
"Rage" CD 2008
"Salvage Trade" Cassette 2010
Quote Your Pulse Records Compilation CD 2010
