El Chon
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El Chon is a musical project of Santa Cruz artist A. Cardott.
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[edit] Barnstorming
Following several years of playing in punk bands (see Happy Meal), A. Cardott turned to folk music performance tactics around 2005 as his guitar abilities came to a workable level. El Chon 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. El Chon does not solicit record labels 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, 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. Cardott 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] Handicraft
Cardott added in the fall of 2007 to his collection of handmade art by making woodblock print posters to advertise El Chon. Dismayed by the digital quality of "Quake Weather," he intends to record with tape from now on.
[edit] Albums
Quake Weather - 2007 -s/r Rage - 2008 -s/r
