mclrecordingco@gmail.com...Home base for the sonic and visual co-creations of Heather and Sammy Chong Salazar and friends. A recording club including Solar Maximum, PALLAS, DS Peligro, closetLames, Her Majesty theE Spleen, and Leather Pills! Everyone's a secret nerd. Everyone's a closetlame!...Doing IT together since 1995!
Dispatch 21:We had a great time in the (home) studio when El Pipe (Zoe') came by to hang out and add drums to some previously recorded Solar Max. A really great way to cap off 2015.
After rolling thru a few times and then lunch, Heather and I strapped on the basses, Pipe climbed behind the kit (thanks Steve M.) for a Solar Maximum event. Epic! Felt good to jam with my old pal. Heather was in classic form.
Look for these recordings to become available later this year at our Bandcamp page and all the usual digital music stores.
El Pipe and Heather laying it down at MCLscreenworks.
Dispatch 20: Not recommended for those with weak hearts or those weak at heart! Her Majesty theE Spleen making it intense with "Sight Unseen" and "Advice for Young People", a couple of psychedelic romps thru the nether worlds of ourconsciousness. Inhale. Hold. Exhale. (Repeat 4x then repeat).
Watch in HD for full effect... HMS is a music and art collective based in Oakland Ca., more specifically, at ACME House of Music. Spleen metamorphed in 2012 with myself, John Middle, Steve Moriarty and Ronzoni Calzone. Nowadays, Walter Nix inhabits most Spleen sessions. We record most of our open jams and then pull the "nuggets." John then takes those mixes and "spleens "them or processes them to become the HMS sound. We had one of the largest soundcloud uploaded track count last year, resulting in over a gig of music!
2016 is gonna be a fun year for HMS and MCL with plans in the works for a release or two! -Sammy
El Pipe(far left and fuzzy) with Zoe' at the Fox Theater in Oakland, Ca. Fri Nov.20, 2015
Dispatch 11: We were really stoked last Fri night to head out to see our old pal and fellow rhythm man Felipe El Pipe Ceballos and Zoe' play to a sold out house at the Fox Theater in Oakland. Great to see a few old faces (Rob, Danny) and a few new ones (Leticia, Greg). Niiiicely played!
We are also stoked to be making available in early 2016 a new 3 song closetLames EP produced by El Pipe! Best part is he plays la bateria (drums) on it too. The rocker Back to the Business, the so moody Dreamin' (not the Blondie tune) and Using You (a true story about you know who) are the cuts slated for that one! Look and listen for it soooon!! Let's go!
Dispatch 9:(From Oct.12,2015) We are really excited to get our Collaborations Series of
tracks with some of our friends and fellow artists off the ground.
We have wanted to do this for a long while and finally we have our first
offering. We sent a song down to lofi nofi experimentalist David Spero, aka DS Peligro in LA. We met on soundcloud, found his sonic art to be really really cool and offered up a track and he agreed. The above track is the result. UFOs Are Real! The first in many. Hope you dig, we sure do!
