Weekend is again with us. That’s great indeed. So let’s take it easy with some nice new music, right?
Boys: there is a brand new video for the song “What if You Would Die?” that was in the debut album “Rest in Peace” and it is of course a great new opportunity to listen to this song. The video was shot by Nora Karlsson, the driving force of the band. Good stuff!
Girl President: the latest from the Japanese label Galaxy Train is this limited tape by the new band of Hiroko Kawakami, ex-Caucus and Smilelove. So this is great stuff, here at Cloudberry we love Caucus, we released a 7″ (do you have it? There aren’t that many copies left) and here she is back alongside Miki Hirose from the Smokebees! Four new songs, one of them a cover of a The Notes original!
Renge: another new release on Galaxy Train is a tape by yeat another band I have featured on the blog before, Renge. It is a 7 song album that sounds very fragile and sweet. The tape edition looks very good, with lots of goodies too!
Life Model: another band that has appeared on the blog in the past has a new song out called “Long Way Round” which will be included in a split 7″ that they will share with Home Economics. It will be released on November 23rd!
The Last Detail: a combo made by Erin Moran from A Girl Called Eddy and Mehdi Zannad from Fugu? Yes, that is happening on this 13 song album that Elefant is released on vinyl and CD a few days ago. You can check all of the songs on Bandcamp and a press released written by Harvey Williams (!).
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I have this vague memory that C de Constancia was recommended once upon a time on my old blog, Mira el Péndulo. I think it wasn’t me who wrote about this enigmatic band, I am pretty sure it was Jotacé. The same one who published a music book, about the death of rock and roll, in Chile last year. If my memory serves me right he was mesmerized and in love with the few songs that were released by this band. At that point, and today too, there are not many details available about them. A true mystery.
I think many of the bands that appear on Siesta Records compilations are a mystery. The label doesn’t really include any credits for them even less a biography. There are many lovely bands that released on these compilations amazing songs but we never get to know who were the people behind them. C de Constancia is one of them.
We know the people behind this band were Spanish. Their accent gives that away. Their name roughly translates as C of Constance. Well, I think that’s a literal translation to be honest. And they had three songs under their belt on two different Siesta compilations.
Two of them appear on the “Educación y Descanso” compilation that was released in the year 2000 (SIESTA 120). This comp was released in both CD and LP versions. C de Constancia appears with a cover of Kiki D’Aki’s “El Futuro” and the song “Agony”.
“Agony” would appear again on a compilation called “Blanco y Negro Music for Siesta”, a compilation of Siesta music on the Japanese label Rambling Records (RBCS-2024) from 2002. I wonder if by any chance in this Japanese release there were any credits included. Anyone knows?
Lastly, and perhaps my favourite song of theirs, “Con los Ojos en Paz”, appears on “Don Quixote. A Quixotic Musical Fantasy with the Touch of Siesta”. A superb compilation released in 2002 (SIESTA 150). Actually there are few tracks from this comp that I hope one day feature on the blog.
I start to suspect though that all of C de Constancia’s songs were covers. I know about the Kiki D’Aki cover. Now I solve another mystery. The song “Con los Ojos en Paz” is actually an original by Cecilia, an Spanish songstress from the early 70s. You can actually listen to the original track here. Now, I haven’t heard “Agony” by C de Constancia. Whose cover would that be then? Anyone can tell me?
It does look like that C de Constancia wasn’t a band at all. Perhaps just a gimmick for the Siesta compilations. I don’t know. It is hard to be sure about it. Still would love to know who were behind these songs, beautifully recorded and arranged. Anyone would know?
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