Name: City of Mirrors
Brand: Dos Santos

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

IARC42LP

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black

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0789993991778

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

IARC42CD

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0789993991808

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

IARC42LPI

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purple

Azucena Dreams

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Extended format: Yes

2021-11-05

0789993991792

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / purple

Artist

Dos Santos

Genre GB

Latin / South American 

Label GB

 International Anthem Recording Co

<i>City of Mirrors</i> is a bold new collection of music from Chicago-based alt-Latinx band Dos Santos, which is comprised of bandleader / singer / lyricst / guitarist / keyboardist Alex Chavez, drummer Daniel Villarreal, percussionist Peter “Maestro” Vale, bassist Jaime Garza, and guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Nathan Karagianis. Cinematic in its journey, the album was produced by multimedia artist and long-time friend of the band Elliot Bergman (NOMO, Wild Belle), and reflects sounds from across the Americas combined with Chavez’s compelling poetic narratives. Its 13 tracks consolidate the band’s unique identities, creative and cultural roots, and their penchant for honoring traditional Latinx music with contemporary compositional expressions and production techniques. 

It achieves the band’s mission to push against their own musical boundaries while also exploring themes of social justice, immigration, and contemporary human struggle. Chavez, a scholar who has produced albums for Smithsonian Folkways and conducted extensive ethnographic work on the music of the Texan US/Mexican borderlands (where he is from), articulates beautifully: “City of Mirrors is an assemblage… glimpses of tradition… reflections on our collective present… luminous echoes between love and solitude, hope and absurdity, euphoria and mourning. This album grapples with and transgresses these binaries because we have/and continue to cross borders. Yet, for us, the border is no metaphor — too much real staring back at us. We embody the border. We (our families) have crossed it. We (our stories) are coated with its residues. And so… we cross the border of self through our art – out of necessity.”

City of Mirrors

Music GB