Multidisciplinary exception, Milton Mahan is like a hidden video game character. Your name, become a guarantee of quality, is written in some of the most attractive local enterprises today as a musician, producer and video director.
As Chilean pop, 2010 will go down in history as the year that Cristián Heyne advised album of the most acclaimed artists: Javiera Mena, Gepe and Denver. The first two confirmations of talent the past, a revelation to all appearances, despite having a previous delivery (Totoral 2008). It is in the duo San Felipe, which enjoyed its best to go through the album Music, Grammar, Gymnastics, where campaigning the other key figure in last season's national independent scene: Milton Mahan.
The male counterpart to Mariana Montenegro in Denver shared production work together to Heyne, in the last revered tandem board. An LP in which he also wrote, worked on choral arrangements and mixing, as well as singing and playing guitar and bass. Released online in late October via Seal Hunter, the LP was preceded by video of the single 'Whatever you want' and has crowned its visibility with the rear clip of 'The Adolescents'. Both he and Bernardo led Quesney ("we had no money," he admits), account for nearly 300 000 views on YouTube. "It's a way to continue the imagery of the song from the inside and not as a reinterpretation, which is how they usually do."
Not bad for a self-taught musician and audiovisual without theoretical training, but acknowledges having "cast in the odd workshop." At age 12, Milton Mahan started playing guitar songbooks and was buying his first band when I was a teenager. "We made a good melodic punk simplecito, we called Malkriados" recalls. From then on, the influences sanfelipeño has been collecting and expressing them in various initiatives. Apart from the duo who released Music, Grammar, Gymnastics, the twentysomething musician plays solo under the name of New Orleans and also includes another duet, from January.
Why all bands have their city name? "I do not know, I realized tired after that match, someone told me. It was not the idea, sought only an intention phonics, now it stops being fun because everyone thinks there is something behind it and I like that relationship to myth and lies, "he replies. Dissimilarities emerge when reviewing separately each of the groups. "In Denver share the composition with Mariana and truth is all quite formal in the sense that what pop songs are more traditional. It takes me a long time to pop with the simplicity, nothing can fail, neither the letter nor the music, that does not mean it is infallible. New Orleans is the other way around, I realized that without leaving too many hobbies were songs and other assistance to those songs I put New Orleans. Now, I have never compose for it unclear whether one or the other, it is decided later. Y de Janeiro is a project that I share with Pablo Munoz (from $ 990) and is focused primarily production, wanted to forget the lyrics and have a project that sought only a sound, "explains in detail.
For Milton Mahan, 2010 started with the very issue 1 January-through-Rex Michita netlabel Silver Disk De Janeiro and the almost immediate comparisons to Animal Collective, part of a sparse music press references to discuss the proposal of the album. "I think we have much in common, the main difference, I think, is that they are much more 'psychedelic' and we are more 'space'. The truth, I never take it as reference when making issues, but we believe that, fine. Anyway, are a great band, "he says. "The good thing is that Paul also produce other records. Then enter at least one facet that I love, work mastering the last EP of Maria Perlita, we help kids Michita Rex and we are now producing full finishing Fakuta LP. "
A few months after launch Silver, the multidisciplinary artist premiered the video for 'Music and Records', a single under the name of New Orleans with Fakuta, while the clip for the single 'Montreal' and appeared De Janeiro in indie blogs who surrendered at the feet of anything that bore the name and surname of sanfelipeño. Welcome justified on the ground, which also gave Manuel Elgueta (aka Maifersoni) who sent him material via MySpace for revision. "I only heard from him for Super 45, but it was mostly internalized, sent me some demos of what was working, I got it, I loved it and told him that we join together." Thus, the two hashed out the disc Slide Loom, another success of Milton Mahan as a producer, his favorite role. "Music is the most enjoyable time," he says.
With the credentials obtained, the twentysomething can laugh quiet when he first arrived to Santiago, having frozen the race of Art in Valparaiso, and time spent working at a local donut ("I exploded, but I was happy because I ate so many as he had dreamed all my life," says .) It also enlists the physical format edition of Music, Grammar, Denver Gymnastics in Spain, by the Universities Federation seal Pop Iberian On land, the duo is seen as a main dish of Chilean indie, with prominent mention in the Bull items El Pais newspaper and the site published on the pop Jenesaispop.com independent Creole.
"It fome many local media continue to have to wait to come out for recognition of attention to what is done here, I think there are too lazy journalism in the middle, with some exceptions, of course, "says Mahan, consulted. "This good time working hard we live, has implied a much larger logistics to what we used to, so here we go pick up the pace. Could not necessarily mean that the good reviews make this a profitable business, you need something else. Especially because the scene is small and in many places, as the same San Felipe, what we do is still far too bizarre, but there is one of ingenuity, I think this is it. "
